Magic City Marketplace: Hospitals Set to Merge

| March 2, 2015 

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Hospitals around Birmingham are preparing for a major shift in the healthcare marketplace — the proposed merger of Baptist Health System and Brookwood Medical Center. That deal could close as soon as next month and would combine two big players in Birmingham healthcare. Thats where we start in this week’s Magic City Marketplace.

 

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