One of the biggest potential acquirers is UCLA Health System. According to the report, people “familiar with the situation” said UCLA would partner with Ascension Health Alliance — the parent holding company of St. Louis-based Ascension Health, the largest Catholic-based health system in the United States — to manage the hospital. However, UCLA spokespeople denied having bids or partnerships to acquire St. John’s.
The LA Times also cited Renton, Wash.-based Providence Health & Services as a potential health system willing to buy St. John’s.
St. John’s has said it wants the new owners to be a Catholic-based institution, as it currently is, which may rule out other Los Angeles-based healthcare giants like Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Keck Medical Center of USC.
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