Baptist expands in Arkansas
Baptist Memorial Health Care has 24 hospitals and employs more than 22,000 people in West Tennessee, Northeast Arkansas and Mississippi. In fiscal year 2024, the organization had a net operating revenue of $4.4 billion. (The Daily Memphian file)
Baptist Memorial Health Care said it has agreed to merge with Paragould’s Arkansas Methodist Medical Center, which has served Northeast Arkansas and Southeast Missouri for 75 years.
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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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