Grand View Health has become part of the St Luke's University Health Network, following the receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals.

The integration of Grand View in Sellersville, US, into St Luke's marks the network's expansion to its 16th campus, a move initiated last year with a non-binding letter of intent and solidified with a definitive agreement on 31 December.

St Luke's president and CEO Rick Anderson said: "Grand View and St Luke's are an exceptional match for one another since Grand View, like St Luke's, is committed to clinical excellence, has a similar culture and enjoys a long and proud history of providing high quality, compassionate care to its community.”

Doug Hughes, appointed as president and CEO of Grand View in 2022, will maintain his leadership role as the St Luke's Grand View Campus president.

Grand View's Board of Trustees chairman Robert Loughery said: "Our Board of Trustees and senior leadership team are absolutely thrilled and very grateful for our community that Grand View will become part of St Luke's, an organisation whose name is synonymous with the highest quality, compassionate care and whose truly outstanding culture is admired by other health systems in Pennsylvania and nationwide."

Established in 1913, Grand View was the first hospital in Bucks County and has evolved into a non-profit, community-based health system with 2,000 employees, serving Bucks and Montgomery counties.

Non-profit health care network St Luke's has 21,000 employees and generated more than $4bn in revenue. It operates more than 350 outpatient sites across 11 counties in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

St Luke's integrated the Quakertown, Allentown, Miners, Warren, Blue Mountain, Sacred Heart, and Easton hospitals into its network.

In 2021, Penn Foundation, a mental health and addiction services provider located near Grand View Hospital, also joined St Luke's.