Columbia-based Boone Health expects to make decision on strategic partner by year’s end

By Brian Hauswirth
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Columbia-based Boone Health has narrowed its search for a strategic partner to three finalists.

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Columbia’s Boone Hospital (2025 file photo courtesy of Boone Health communications director Christian Basi)

939 the Eagle’s Mike Murphy of Comobuz reports the hospital plans to make a decision by December.

939 the Eagle News covered the July press conference at Boone Health, when President Brady Dubois announced that they were starting the process to search for a strategic partner. 939 the Eagle reported that day that President Dubois told reporters that the search for a strategic partner could involve a partnership, whether it’s with a larger health system or other independent health systems. He also said that day that finding the right strategic partner would allow them to grow in key medical areas while ensuring that Boone Health’s quality continues to improve.

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A Boone Health nurse greets children at May’s Mid-Mo Baby Expo at Columbia’s Courtyard by Marriott (May 10, 2025 file photo from Zimmer’s Ava Kitzi)

Boone Health serves 26 counties, from Adair to the north to Saline to the west, to Montgomery to the east and Miller County to our south.