CommonSpirit Cuts Five Regions to Three Service Areas
CommonSpirit Health will consolidate its five regions into three service areas, West, Central and East, effective in January, CFO Michael Browning announced on the system's fiscal 2026 earnings call. The restructuring replaces the California, Central, South, Mountain and Northwest regions created after a 2024 portfolio review and aims to cut duplication, management layers and complex legal structures. CommonSpirit is also consolidating acute care entities into a single entity per state, unifying 27 critical access hospitals under one rural operating model, and in-sourcing its revenue cycle after ending its Conifer contract. The moves are part of Project ImpACT, a five-year initiative targeting $6 billion in financial improvement, including more than $1 billion in fiscal 2027 efficiency gains.