Charlotte-based Atrium Well being is combining with the Midwest’s Advocate Aurora Well being — a deal that can double its dimension and create the fifth-largest well being system by income within the nation.

The mixed group will serve 5.5 million sufferers throughout six states, together with Illinois, Wisconsin, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. It is going to function greater than 1,000 care websites and 67 hospitals with practically 150,000 complete workers. Mixed annual income will exceed $27 billion.

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