Canopy Health, a fast-growing Bay Area medical alliance, is expanding into the North Bay, partnering with one of Sonoma County’s largest hospital operators and affiliated doctors in a bid to compete more closely with Kaiser Permanente, the region’s dominant health care provider, The Press Democrat reports.
The partnership with Providence adds four of its hospitals — Santa Rosa Memorial, Petaluma Valley, Healdsburg and Napa’s Queen of the Valley — and nearly 500 medical providers to Canopy’s network, which now comprises 29 hospitals and nearly 6,000 medical providers in the Bay Area.
The network gives Canopy’s 50,000 members an easier way to seek referrals across a vast network that includes UCSF, John Muir Physician Network, Hill Physicians Medical Group (the largest network of independent doctors in Northern California), Meritage Medical Network, Dignity Health Medical Network Santa Cruz and Santa Clara County Physician Network, according to Canopy.
The expansion is subject to approval by the state Department of Managed Health Care.
Canopy Heath was founded in 2015 by UCSF Health and John Muir Health, two of the largest Bay Area health care providers in the Bay Area. Read more.
