California Attorney General Kamala Harris conditionally consented to Irvine-based St. Joseph Health’s proposed affiliation with Providence Health and Services.
St. Joseph will form a nonprofit corporation with Renton, Wash.-based Providence that’s referred to in filings with Harris’ office as Providence St. Joseph Health.
The new entity would be based in Renton and keep a regional office in Irvine. It would oversee a health system with 43 hospitals and 13,544 licensed beds ranging from Washington state down to southern Orange County and east into Texas. Local facilities include St. Joseph Hospital-Orange; St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton; and Mission Hospital, which has campuses in Mission Viejo and Laguna Beach.
Most of the conditions on the combination deal with Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, a Providence-owned facility in Burbank. Harris’ office also gave systemwide conditions, including requiring St. Joseph and Providence to file detailed compliance reports for 11 fiscal years after the transaction closes.
—Vita Reed
