Tucson Medical Center is in a due-diligence process to become part of a network governed by the Mayo Clinic, officials confirmed Wednesday.
The Mayo Clinic Care Network includes about 34 hospitals across the United States that have joined the network to improve clinical care, TMC’s Chief Executive Officer Judy Rich said.
“The goal is to share evidence-based medicine and to give our physicians here at TMC access to the care network,” Rich said.
The collaboration is not an ownership change or an affiliation. TMC remains independent and locally owned.
Other Arizona hospitals in the Mayo network include ASU Health Services, Kingman Regional Medical Center and Yuma Regional Medical Center.
Once an anticipated merger between the University of Arizona Health Network and Phoenix-based Banner Health is completed next month, TMC will be the sole remaining acute-care community hospital in the city that is locally owned.
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“We are working together in the best interest of our patients and always looking to enhance that working relationship,” said Julia Strange, TMC’s vice president for community benefit.
Mayo Clinic’s Arizona public relations office routed all inquiries to TMC.
Star reporter Mariana Dale contributed to this story.
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