Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect changes to the deal between Dignity Health and Medical Properties Trust that Catholic Health World learned about on Oct. 2.
Dignity Health, a subsidiary of CommonSpirit Health, has purchased a Mesa, Arizona, hospital from Medical Properties Trust.
The purchase, which closed in July, is of the 50-bed, nonprofit Arizona General Hospital in Mesa, in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area.
Medical Properties Trust had funded the construction of the hospital and a network of other facilities, which were built between 2015 and 2017. Adeptus Health originally operated them. In 2017, Adeptus filed for bankruptcy protection, and Dignity Health began leasing all the sites. According to a release from Medical Properties Trust, Dignity Health assumed the lease because the system “recognized the value of this footprint within a growing and aging local health care ecosystem.”
According to Dignity Health, there will be no change in operations as a result of the ownership change.
The Arizona General Hospital has not been operated as Catholic. That will continue to be the case now that Dignity Health owns the facility. The hospital does, however, adhere to a “Statement of Common Values,” according to information from Dignity Health.
In addition to the Mesa facility, Dignity Health operates seven hospitals and a network of outpatient sites in Arizona.