St. Mary’s Hospital-Trinity Health Merger Announcement Imminent.

Listen for a sigh of relief from Waterbury this week. Detroit-based Trinity Health and Waterbury’s St. Mary’s will soon announce they have reached an agreement to merge. St. Mary’s was one of five Connecticut hospitals in an unsuccessful takeover bid by for-profit health care giant Tenet. That proposal, which would have included a new hospital for Waterbury, fell afoul of the state’s complex regulatory and political web.

Trinity Health and St. Francis Hospital won regulatory and Vatican approval of their merger. St. Francis will be the dominant hospital in the New England healthcare network of Roman Catholic hospitals Trinity is creating.