{"id":14376,"date":"2026-07-08T03:06:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=14376"},"modified":"2026-07-08T03:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:06:52","slug":"ascension-to-buy-tennessee-health-system-for-nearly-1b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=14376","title":{"rendered":"Ascension to Buy Tennessee Health System for Nearly $1B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/07\/ascension-tennessee-health-system-merger\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ascension is set to acquire Williamson Health, a county-owned health system in Tennessee, in a deal worth nearly $1 billion. Ascension\u2019s offer beat out bids from HCA Healthcare and Optum. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/07\/ascension-tennessee-health-system-merger\/\">Ascension to Buy Tennessee Health System for Nearly $1B<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ascension is set to acquire Williamson Health, a county-owned health system in Tennessee, in a deal worth nearly $1 billion. Ascension\u2019s offer beat out bids from HCA Healthcare and Optum. The post Ascension to Buy Tennessee Health System for Nearly $1B appeared first on MedCity News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}