Exempla Healthcare ownership changes

DENVER – Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System is negotiating a deal to gain sole ownership of Denver-based Exempla Healthcare.

The Catholic nonprofit health-care organization, which already owns one Exempla Healthcare hospital, Saint Joseph in Denver, is buying out the portion of Exempla currently owned by Denver-based LMC Community Foundation for an undisclosed amount.

Exempla Healthcare, formed in 1998, is comprised of three hospitals: Saint Joseph as well as Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette and Exempla Lutheran Medical Center in Denver.

Lenexa, Kan.-based Sisters of Charity currently owns nine hospitals; after the change it will have 11: the…