Butler (Pa.) Health System and Greensburg, Pa.-based Excela Health meged on Jan. 1. Approaching five months post-merger, the new health system has declared a new name: Independence Health System.
The new name “rings true” for the system’s 7,300 employees and 1,000 physicians and advanced practice providers, according to Ken DeFurio, its president and CEO. He said independence is “at the core of the system’s mission and vision,” Becker’s reports. Read more.
