Prime Healthcare signed a definitive agreement to acquire the hospitals along with long-term care facilities and other assets of Kansas City-based Carondelet Health, which is part of St. Louis-based Ascension Health, in October 2014.
With the deal finalized, Prime Healthcare operates four hospitals in Missouri and 32 hospitals nationwide.
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