Capital Finance
Company will use cash from its initial public offering to pay off debts and regain its footing as a for-profit company.
The list of tools insurers use to spread risk tends to get longer every day. Sometimes there's an opportunity for the list to grow wider, and not longer, by finding new value in the tools and resources already being used.
Health system leveraged the processes for controlling finances, listening to staff and investing in new technologies to help it better support patients' needs and bring in more revenue.
Admissions and emergency visits both grew in the last quarter of 2014.
Executives say discussion have been going on for more than a year.
The company will serve more than 5,200 health system members and affiliates and more than 118,000 non-acute healthcare customers.
State judge says provision was not in public interest since it would allow the healthcare provider to grow too big.
Healthcare services giant says softness in Canadian market was a drag on income.
Lessing comes to the hospital from Louisiana where he most recently served as the CFO of the 223-bed St. Tammany Parish Hospital.
Politician plans to block the merger on the grounds that it would make the state's largest health system too big to function fairly.