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Palos Health, with its 425-bed hospital in Palos Heights and a south campus in Orland Park, is set to merge with Northwestern Medicine Jan. 1, 2021, the health care systems announced Thursday.
Palos Health, which has about 2,800 employees at its two facilities, announced in September it had signed a letter of intent to join Northwestern.
“We look forward to welcoming Palos Health to Northwestern Medicine,” Dean M. Harrison, president and CEO of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, said in a statement. “We will join the physicians and staff of Palos Health to provide convenient access to world class care in the southwest suburbs.”