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ProMedica

American healthcare system

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ7246673 ↗
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ProMedica is a non-profit health care system with locations in northwest Ohio, southeast Michigan, and southern Pennsylvania. The system includes a health education and research center, the health maintenance organization Paramount Health Care, nursing homes, a ground/air ambulance service, a local business network of private practices and several hospitals. About 2,900 ProMedica physicians care for approximately 2 million patients each year.

History

In April 2018, ProMedica announced that it would be pursuing projects in China. Also in April 2018, the company Welltower announced that it would be working with ProMedica to acquire a nursing/assisted living real-estate company called Quality Care Properties.

In September 2025, the Department of Justice announced that it had filed a civil complaint against ProMedica, alleging that several of its nursing facilities provided "grossly substandard" care in violation of the Nursing Home Reform Act.

Hospitals

The company was established in Toledo, Ohio with The Toledo Hospital, and Toledo Children's Hospital. Throughout the years, it has expanded to include other hospitals to cover 23 counties in two states.

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This entry incorporates text from “ProMedica” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.