What you should know:
1. Pittsburgh-based UPMC and Waterford, Ireland-based Institute of Eye Surgery plan to make the hospital part of a larger effort to expand ophthalmology care in the country.
2. Clane General will be rebranded as UPMC Kildare Hospital.
3. This is UPMC’s second hospital in Ireland. UPMC acquired a hospital in Waterford in 2018. UPMC first expanded into Ireland when it opened a cancer treatment center in Waterford in 2006.
4. None of the entities involved in the deal disclosed financial terms.
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