In February of 2021, Lincoln’s Bryan Health and the Kearney Regional Medical Center started discussions on a partnership. After a year of activity, the mission went into effect on January 1, 2022. The result is a Nebraska owned and governed non-profit health system that will treat patients from every Nebraska county and surrounding states. The partnership now employs more than 6,300 Nebraskans with a focus on treatment, prevention, and education.
“As a Nebraska owned and operated nonprofit health system we are excited to welcome Kearney Regional Medical Center into the Bryan Health family,” said Russ Gronewold, CEO of Bryan Health. “Throughout the due diligence process, we repeatedly learned there is a shared vision and commitment to elevate the quality of life through better health; a cultural fit rooted in physician collaboration; and opportunities to supplement the tremendous physician-led care provided at Kearney Regional Medical Center and Platte Valley Medical Clinic with additional specialty services.”
“Bryan Medical Center has been a place to which central and western Nebraskans have been transferred for tertiary and very complex care for years, and our medical staff has many existing relationships with physicians in Lincoln,” said Bill Calhoun, CEO of Kearney Regional Medical Center. “Bryan’s operational and acute-care capabilities, along with its track record of shared governance and decision making with physicians, make it a perfect partner as we look to extend services and meet the health care needs of central and western Nebraskans, and northern Kansas.”
The Kearney Regional Medical Center opened in 2014 as a physician driven hospital that had backing of the community and private investors. In seven years it has grown to serve central and western Nebraska and the northern part of Kansas. Their name will remain the same.
Bryan Health has facilities and partnerships in Central City, Grand Island and Hastings and this new partnership will make the the area a hub for local health care.