Merger | Aspirus Health and St. Luke’s

To assess the degree of similarity between the two health systems, Aspirus Health & St. Luke’s (MN), we conducted an analysis of the largest hospital in each system—Aspirus Wausau Hospital and St. Luke’s Hospital Duluth. The analysis reveals that Aspirus Wausau Hospital and St. Luke’s Hospital Duluth have a SimilarityIndex™ M&A Score of 68.30, or a distance of 31.70. Said differently, using Aspirus Wausau Hospital as the index hospital, St. Luke’s Hospital is the 311th most similar hospital out of the 2,299 hospitals in the national analysis, revealing that there are potentially other hospitals that are operationally, financially and competitively more similar but unavailable. St. Luke’s Hospital and Aspirus Wausau Hospital data are sourced from FY2021 Cost Reports.