Essentia Health

Essentia Health is an integrated healthcare system with facilities in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota.

[1][6][5] Essentia Health was accredited as an Accountable Care Organization by the National Committee for Quality Assurance in 2013.

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed to evaluate how the two organizations might combine to form an integrated regional health system.

[15] After almost two years of discussion, the merger was called off in January 2024, although the leaders did not rule out future collaboration attempts.

[17][18] The roots of Essentia's Catholic facilities trace back to a group of Benedictine nuns who established St. Mary's Hospital, Essentia Health's oldest hospital, in Duluth in 1888.