Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center Health Network and Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health have agreed to end their joint venture partnership involving Bon Secours Charity Health System. Under the agreement, WMCHealth will assume full ownership and operational control of multiple nursing home facilities and the three Bon Secours Mercy Health hospitals in its western region:
Good Samaritan Hospital (Suffern, N.Y.) Bon Secours Community Hospital (Port Jervis, N.Y.) St. Anthony Community Hospital (Warwick, N.Y)
Bon Secours Mercy Ministries and the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth — the health system’s Catholic sponsors — endorsed the transition. Going forward, the facilities will no longer operate as Catholic entities. Religious symbols and iconography will be ret