Baptist health system grows with Mississippi merger
Baptist Memorial Hospital DeSoto is part of Baptist Memorial Health Care, the largest health system in Mississippi. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Following the merger, Baptist Memorial will serve more than half of Mississippi’s population. It’s also Mississippi’s fourth-largest employer.
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Baptist Memorial Health Care Mississippi hospitals mergers and acquisitions Anderson Regional Health SystemAisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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