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The nonprofit Catholic healthcare system Christus Health announced on Sept. 20 that it will take over a Texarkana medical center sold by Dallas-based Steward Health Care, which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year.
Christus Ark-La-Tex has agreed to assume operations at Wadley Regional Medical Center from Dallas-based Steward. Ernie Sadau, Christus president and CEO, said the Irving-based organization was "committed to maintaining access to care in Texarkana" and was "honored" to keep Wadley Regional Medical Center running "without interruption."
Christus plans to assume operations at Wadley in the coming weeks to ensure the hospital does not close.
Christus has more than 60 hospitals in Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Mexico and is sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word of Houston, Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word of San Antonio and the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. It is in the process of opening its first hospital in Beaumont, at the former Medical Center of Southeast Texas Victory Campus in the East Texas city.
And it announced in early September plans to invest $25 million in expanding Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs, which recently turned 75 years old.
Steward Health Care announced in May plans to sell off all of its 30-plus hospitals soon after filing for bankruptcy.
