Erlanger Health
Erlanger is a non-profit health system based in Chattanooga, Tenn. and affiliated with the University of Tennessee Health Science College of Medicine. The seven-hospital health system includes the region’s only Level I Trauma Center, Children’s Hospital, Level IV NICU, Kidney Transplant Center, 24/7 Comprehensive Stroke Center, and one of the largest surgical robotics programs in the Southeast. Erlanger is a rare combination of independent, academic medicine with the feel of a community health system. Erlanger is the sole provider of tertiary care services spanning a 50,000 square-mile region encompassing southeast Tennessee, northwest Georgia, north Alabama, and western North Carolina. With a history of over a century, Erlanger continues its founding mission to compassionately care for people.www.erlanger.org
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Oct 14, 2026
Shelly-Ann DecarieHOST
And today we have with us Dr. Scott Guthrie.
Shelly-Ann DecarieHOST
He is a neonatal intensive care specialist, the system director for neonatal quality research and outreach at Erlanger Health System and professor of clinical pediatrics neonatology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Medicine in
Mbozu SipaloHOST
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Shelly-Ann DecarieHOST
He has served as Fulbright specialist with the United States State Department, sharing his expertise across five continents.
AllyHOST
I was like, "Oh, I, my dad's in the hospital.
AllyHOST
I'm at Erlanger." Um, and he like dropped everything and came and sat with me.
AllyHOST
Anyway, he was over, and him and Lee mounted the TV to the fireplace, and Dad never wanted me to mount the damn TV to the fireplace because he thought it wouldn't look good.
AllyHOST
Here's the problem, though.
Bo BraboHOST
So WVU is investing $800 million.
Bo BraboHOST
Summer also brought Prisma Health's acquisition of Erlanger Health and Sanford Health's purchase of North Memorial Health.
Bo BraboHOST
The pattern, what is the pattern here? So the larger academic and regional systems absorbing community hospitals before the financial math forces someone's hand.
Bo BraboHOST
So what are the stats in all of this that matter? It's 46 was the total for 2025.
Bo BraboHOST
We had 40, almost the same amount just in the first six months of 2026, 800 million from WVU Health, their investment.
Bo BraboHOST
Five hospitals, which is what Independence Health brings to WVU, and both are non-profit.
Bo BraboHOST
You've got deals with Prisma, Erlanger, Sanford, North Memorial.
Bo BraboHOST
And two out of three transactions involve health systems seeking partners proactively.