Nashville, Tenn. – Lifepoint Health and Ascension Saint Thomas are expanding their Highpoint Health joint venture in Middle Tennessee to include two new facilities: Southern Tennessee Regional Health System (STRHS) – Winchester and Southern Tennessee Regional Health System (STRHS) – Sewanee.
Located in Southeastern Tennessee, the two legacy Lifepoint Health sites of care will join the Highpoint Health System joint venture, which is jointly owned and operated by Lifepoint Health and Ascension Saint Thomas.
Highpoint Health is a regional health system that currently includes Highpoint Health – Sumner and Highpoint Health – Sumner Station in Gallatin, Highpoint Health – Trousdale in Hartsville, Highpoint Health – Riverview in Carthage, and more than 15 affiliated clinics and sites of care.
“We are excited to expand our relationship with Ascension Saint Thomas by adding these two facilities to the Highpoint Health joint venture,” said William Haugh, president, Central Division, Lifepoint Health. “STRHS-Winchester and STRHS-Sewanee both play critical roles in providing much-needed services close to home in these communities. We are proud of the important strides we have made in strengthening access to services and specialists through our Highpoint Health joint venture, and we look forward to adding these locations to this expanded network of care.”
The Highpoint Health partnership between Lifepoint Health and Ascension Saint Thomas brings together the organizations’ clinical excellence, best practices and talented caregivers to collaborate in new ways that improve access to clinical programs and specialty care for patients and communities.
“This expansion marks an important step forward in our mission to enhance healthcare access for the communities we serve,” said Fahad Tahir, president and CEO of Ascension Saint Thomas. “By joining Highpoint Health, STRHS-Winchester and STRHS-Sewanee will gain greater access to Ascension Saint Thomas’ nationally recognized clinical expertise and specialty services.”
The Winchester and Sewanee hospitals and sites of care will be majority-owned and operated by Lifepoint Health, and co-branded with Ascension Saint Thomas. The current leadership team will remain in place, and no significant changes are anticipated for employees. Moving forward, the facilities will adopt the names of Highpoint Health – Winchester and Highpoint Health – Sewanee.
“We are looking forward to being part of the Highpoint Health network as we work together to grow and strengthen specialty services that we know are important to our community,” said Adam Martin, CEO of STRHS-Winchester and STRHS-Sewanee. “We have an incredibly strong team of dedicated caregivers at both of these locations, and we are excited about the opportunities ahead to further advance our mission of making communities healthier together as part of Highpoint Health.”
About Lifepoint Health®
Lifepoint Health is a leading healthcare provider that serves patients, clinicians, communities, and partner organizations across the healthcare continuum. Driven by a mission of making communities healthier®, the company has a growing diversified healthcare delivery network comprised of nearly 55,000 dedicated employees, 60 community hospital campuses, more than 60 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals and 250 additional sites of care, including managed acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. Through its innovation strategy, Lifepoint Forward, the company is developing meaningful solutions to enhance quality, increase access to care, and improve value across the Lifepoint footprint and communities across the country. For more information about the company, visit www.LifepointHealth.net.
About Ascension Saint Thomas
Ascension Saint Thomas is a leading health care system with a 125-year history of providing care to the community, and is the only faith-based, non-profit health system in Middle Tennessee. Today, the health system offers a highly comprehensive system of care, with more than 250 sites of care that cover a 45-county area in Tennessee consisting of 16 hospitals and a network of affiliated joint ventures, medical practices, clinics and specialty facilities. Across the state, Ascension Saint Thomas and its partner organizations employ more than 13,000 dedicated associates who care for millions of patients each year. Ascension Saint Thomas is part of Ascension, one of the nation’s largest faith-based healthcare organizations committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. Ascension includes approximately 134,000 associates, 35,000 affiliated providers and 140 hospitals, serving communities in 19 states and the District of Columbia. Visit www.ascension.org.
