Over the past three years, Memorial Health Systems leadership has followed a strategic plan designed to expand key service lines and recruit physicians, effectively growing the hospital's business and positioning it for expansion into a new, replacement hospital. To date, more than 20 specialists, family physicians and physicians' assistants have joined Memorial Hospital. In addition, the Hospital has opened three new specialty offices - York Heart and Vascular Specialists, York Urology Specialists and York OB/GYN Specialists - and a new family practice in Red Lion, Windsor Commons Family Practice. These practices give York County residents better access to care and specialists in their own community.

Memorial expanded the cardiovascular service line by opening a new Heart and Vascular Center that provides specialized cardiac and vascular care. MHS also purchased the latest generation da Vinci Si Robotic Surgical System for minimally invasive surgeries to expand our surgical service line. Memorial provides minimally invasive surgery for a broad range of procedures and has the only surgeon in York County who performs prostatectomies with the da Vinci Si. In addition, Memorial joined the Spirit of Women, a network of more than 90 hospitals around the country to grow the women's health service line.

May, 2012
The Pennsylvania Attorney General has scheduled a hearing on Thursday, May 17 at noon in Memorial Hospital's Staff Room to consider the sale of Memorial Health Systems Corporation to a subsidiary of Community Health Systems, Inc. During this hearing, the Attorney General will hear testimony from those who have an interest in the sale. The meeting is open to the public.

June, 2011
The MHS Board of Directors announced that it was entering the next phase of its strategic plan. In order for MHS to continue to advance its mission of providing high quality choice in health care for the York community, the Board of Directors engaged Cain Brothers & Company, one of the nation's largest health care financial advisory firms, to assist in pursuing strategic partners.

January, 2012
After a thorough, competitive process to select a strategic partner that will enhance MHS' long-standing commitment to provide high-quality, sustainable choice in health care for the York County community, the MHS Board of Directors announced it had selected a partner. MHS entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of Memorial Hospital, Surgical Center of York and other associated facilities to subsidiaries of Community Health Systems, Inc.

The proposed transaction will be submitted for review by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office in a process that will include review by the Charitable Trusts Section. The transaction also must be approved by the Orphans Court of York County. It will take several months to complete this process.

No dates or events for the review process have yet been set. As the process gets underway, we will update this page with more information.