Banner acquires Big Thompson Medical Group

LOVELAND – Phoenix-based Banner Health, operator of Greeley’s North Colorado Medical Center and McKee Medical Center in Loveland, has acquired Loveland’s largest independent specialty medical practice group.

Big Thompson Medical Group will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Banner, operated and managed by the practice’s doctors, Banner spokesman Bill Byron said.

Big Thompson Medical group serves patients at clinics throughout Larimer and Weld counties with 40 doctors in specialties that include pediatrics, internal medicine, family practice, obstetrics, internal medicine, family practice, gastrointestinal and allergy medicine. Skyline Center for Health, a new medical center that opened in Loveland last year, is the…