California-based health care system UCLA Health acquired West Hills Hospital and Medical Center in Calabasas, Calif., on March 28.
The hospital will be renamed the UCLA West Valley Medical Center and will help the system “address hospital inpatient capacity needs,” according to a March 29 press release from UCLA Health.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Johnese Spisso, president of UCLA Health, called the acquisition “an important milestone” in the statement.
“This acquisition represents a strategic investment in our community and our mission,” Ms. Spisso said. “It will both increase convenience for patients living and working in the San Fernando Valley and provide critically needed inpatient hospital capacity in the UCLA Health system to serve more patients who require highly specialized care and treatments.”
UCLA Health has retained most of the professionals and support staff previously employed by West Hills, according to the statement.
The deal adds to UCLA Health a 260-bed community hospital with seven operating rooms and a free-standing ambulatory surgery center on a 14-acre site, “providing future opportunities to expand care,” according to the statement.
UCLA Health also operates four other medical centers and hospitals—Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA in Westwood, and UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center —as well as more than 280 community clinics across Southern California and the Central Coast.
