Duke Health System and LifePoint Hospitals announce partnership

Duke University Health System, Inc. and LifePoint Hospitals® have formed DLP Healthcare, LLC (Duke/LifePoint), a joint venture designed to strengthen and improve healthcare delivery throughout North Carolina and the surrounding regions by creating flexible affiliation options for community hospitals. The unique joint venture combines LifePoint's extensive operational resources and experience in successfully managing community-based hospitals with Duke's renowned expertise and leadership in the development of clinical services and quality systems.




Duke/LifePoint is one of the first joint ventures between an academic health system and a hospital operations company. Its mission is to own and operate a system of highly functioning community hospitals. It will provide local hospitals with extensive clinical and operational support, quality measurement tools and resources to effectively grow and expand services to better serve their communities.

Maria Parham Medical Center, a private, non-profit, hospital located in Henderson, North Carolina, today signed a memorandum of understanding with Duke/LifePoint which will make it the first hospital in the new Duke/LifePoint network. Maria Parham has served communities throughout north central North Carolina and southern Virginia for nearly 85 years. It has a team of more than 150 physicians and 700 clinical and support staff and offers a wide range of healthcare services.

LifePoint will bring the Duke/LifePoint partnership a range of financial and operational resources, including access to capital for ongoing investments in new technology and facility renovations. Duke will offer Duke/LifePoint hospitals guidance in clinical service development and support for enhancing quality systems as well as access to highly specialized medical services to help meet their communities' needs. Duke/LifePoint hospitals also will have the ability to share best practices with hospitals, clinics and healthcare providers throughout the Duke and LifePoint systems.

LifePoint Hospitals operates 52 hospital campuses in 17 states.

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