Davenport, Iowa-based ORA Orthopedics announced it will end its partnership with MercyOne at the end of 2025.
Here are five things to know:
1. The decision follows Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health acquired MercyOne Health System in 2022 and rebranded Genesis Health System as MercyOne Genesis last year.
2. In a Sept. 22 statement, ORA said the alignment that once existed with Genesis no longer matches its approach to orthopedic care under MercyOne.
“For more than 60 years, ORA Orthopedics has been proud to partner with Genesis Health System, working together to care for generations of families across our community,” the group said in a Sept. 22 statement. “However, with the transition of Genesis into MercyOne, we have experienced a shift in values that no longer aligns with how we believe exceptional orthopedic care should be delivered.”
3. Effective Dec. 18, ORA will no longer provide orthopedic emergency or trauma services at MercyOne Genesis East Hospital in Davenport or MercyOne Genesis Illini Hospital in Silvis, Ill.
4. The group confirmed it will still provide orthopedic services across its clinics, urgent care sites and through UnityPoint hospitals in Bettendorf, Iowa, and in Rock Island and Moline, Ill.
5. MercyOne said ORA terminated the partnership earlier this year and that the health system has been expanding orthopedic care across eastern Iowa. The system is adding new providers and locations to maintain uninterrupted orthopedic services in the Quad Cities and Clinton communities.
“Earlier this spring, ORA Orthopedics initiated the termination of our longstanding partnership without cause,” a spokesperson for MercyOne said in a statement provided to Becker’s. “Since then, MercyOne Genesis has advanced our efforts to redefine and expand orthopedic care throughout the Quad Cities and Clinton communities, which includes introducing new providers and additional locations to complement our robust care offerings in eastern Iowa. This expansion began earlier this summer and will continue for the next few months. Patients may continue to look to MercyOne Genesis and MercyOne Clinton Medical Center for uninterrupted care in orthopedic services and beyond.”
