Below are 21 hospitals that have announced or completed name changes or other rebranding efforts in 2019, reported by Becker's Hospital Review:

Bon Secours Baltimore Hospital has a new name: Grace Medical Center, according to The Baltimore Business Journal.

Optum, the health services arm of UnitedHealth, has a network of 46,000 physicians and is slated for significant growth. UnitedHealth wants Optum's annual revenue to hit $100 billion by 2028, and the company has a plan to make that happen, according to Business Insider.

CVS Health has launched a genomic testing-based precision medicine strategy for personalized cancer care, the company announced Dec. 12.

The urgent care center market continues to explode, with U.S.-based urgent care centers numbering 9,279 as of June 2019, according to an updated report from Urgent Care Association.

As major health insurance companies are getting into the business of owning primary care practices, Anthem is pursuing a different strategy, according to Business Insider.

Two decades before Boeing faced its 737 Max crisis, changes to the company's leadership drove a division between engineers and managers that changed how the company operated — both geographically and culturally, according to The Atlantic.

symplr®, a leading healthcare governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) software as a service (SaaS) platform, announced that the final symplr engageTM Regional User Conferences of 2019 will be held in Nashville, December 12-13, 2019, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Nashville Downtown.

The interim president of Bangor-based Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center is turning his sights on quality ratings after the second-largest hospital in Maine received a C from Leapfrog and two stars from CMS, according to the Bangor Daily News.

Memphis, Tenn.-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare partnered with the University of Memphis to provide associates subsidized — and in some cases fee-free — education, the organizations said Dec. 5.

In 2020, artificial intelligence will face more ethical challenges and gene therapy commercialization will hasten, Frost & Sullivan analysts predict.

If all of Mosaic Life Care's patients were covered by Medicare, the St. Joseph, Mo.-based health system would be worse off financially, CEO Mark Laney, MD, told the News-Press.

Best Buy is known as the largest specialty electronics retailer in the U.S., and a key part of its growth strategy is centered on digital health initiatives.

For the first time in 25 years, Boston-based Partners HealthCare will have a new name: Mass General Brigham.

Grocery chain Kroger has launched a healthcare initiative that allows hospitals to use its stores to expand care offerings to patients, according to the Cincinnati Business Courier. 

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Morehead City, N.C.-based Carteret Health Care became the first facility in North Carolina to join the Mayo Clinic Care Network, according to local news station WNCT.

Walmart opened its first freestanding health center in September, and the company has hired a new executive to help the company grow its healthcare business.

Regional Health, a five-hospital system based in Rapid City, S.D., will change its name to Monument Health and join the Mayo Clinic Care Network in January.

Below are 11 hospitals that have announced name changes or other rebranding efforts since July 1.