{{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Short description|American healthcare network}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox company | name = Bryan Health | logo = Bryan Health logo.svg | former_name = BryanLGH Health System | type = Private | genre = Health Care System | foundation = {{sda|1997}} | founder = | location_city = Lincoln, Nebraska | location_country = U.S. | location = <!-- this parameter modifies "Headquarters" --> | origins = | key_people = | area_served = | industry = Health care | products = | services = Hospital | revenue = | income from recurring operation = | net_income = | num_employees = 3,500 | parent = | divisions = | subsid = | owner = | slogan = | homepage = {{URL|http://www.bryanhealth.com/}} | dissolved = | footnotes = }}
'''Bryan Health''' (formerly '''BryanLGH Health System''') is an American not-for-profit healthcare organization located in Lincoln, Nebraska. The system operates an acute-care hospital, several outpatient clinics as well as a physician network and a heart institute. The system is affiliated with the Bryan College of Health Sciences. The system was established in 1997 from the merger of Bryan Memorial Hospital and Lincoln General Hospital.
==History== The organization was formed in 1997 by the merger of two pre-existing hospitals in Lincoln: Bryan Memorial Hospital and Lincoln General Hospital.<ref>[http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/Lincoln_Hospital_Name_Change_143380606.html?ref=606 "Lincoln Hospital Name Change"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809101413/http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/Lincoln_Hospital_Name_Change_143380606.html?ref=606 |date=2014-08-09 }}, WOWT News, March 19, 2012</ref> The name BryanLGH was chosen to reflect the names of the pre-existing hospitals, both of which had been in operation since 1926.<ref name="js">[http://journalstar.com/news/local/bryanlgh-will-change-its-name-to-bryan/article_9a5d24f3-57b8-506a-b363-9e75f9a1159a.html "BryanLGH will change its name to Bryan"], Journal-Star, March 19, 2012</ref> Bryan's physician network and heart institute have been added since the merger. The organization's name is derived from William Jennings Bryan's gift of land to the United Methodist Church for the East Campus hospital in 1922.<ref name="CollegeHistory">{{cite web |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |title=History |url=https://www.bryanhealthcollege.edu/bcohs/about/history/ |access-date=December 18, 2019 |website= |publisher=Bryan College of Health Sciences}}</ref>
In 2003, the hospital system opened Crete Area Medical Center.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2003-02-21 |title=Crete hospital nearly read for its opening |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/lincoln-journal-star-crete-hospital-near/179771654/ |access-date=2025-08-26 |work=Lincoln Journal Star |pages=15}}</ref> In 2012, the hospital system rebranded from BryanLGH Health System to Bryan Health.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-03-20 |title=What's in (another) name? Bryan tries again |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/lincoln-journal-star-whats-in-another/179937323/ |access-date=2025-08-29 |work=Lincoln Journal Star |pages=B1}}</ref> In 2019, Bryan began expanding its healthcare further outside of Lincoln. The system purchased Grand Island Regional Medical Center in 2019.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-07-28 |title=Bryan partners in Grand Island |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/lincoln-journal-star-bryan-partners-in-g/179766995/ |access-date=2025-08-26 |work=Lincoln Journal Star |pages=B1}}</ref> It developed Merrick Medical Center, which opened in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dorn |first=Nolan |date=2022-05-25 |title=Bryan Health unveils new medical center in central Nebraska |url=https://www.klkntv.com/bryan-health-unveils-new-medical-center-in-central-nebraska/ |access-date=2025-08-26 |website=KLKN-TV |language=en-US}}</ref> It purchased Kearney Regional Medical Center in 2022.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-01-06 |title=Bryan Health buys Kearney hospital |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/lincoln-journal-star-bryan-health-buys-k/179774667/ |access-date=2025-08-26 |work=Lincoln Journal Star |pages=A10}}</ref>
==Healthcare facilities== {{Main|Bryan Health facilities}} Bryan Health operates six hospitals, 45 physician clinics, four urgent care facilities, and a specialty clinic.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hospitals {{!}} Lincoln, NE {{!}} Bryan Health |url=https://www.bryanhealth.com/locations/hospitals/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805175905/https://www.bryanhealth.com/locations/hospitals/ |archive-date=2023-08-05 |access-date=2025-08-26 |website=www.bryanhealth.com |language=en}}</ref> Two of their hospitals, Bryan West Campus and Kearney Regional Medical Center, are level II and level III trauma centers respectively. Bryan East Campus is the oldest hospital in the system, being established in 1925.
==Leadership== Russ Gronewold was named CEO of Bryan in 2019. He was previously CFO. The appointment was controversial because of Gronewold's prior affiliation with the Nebraska Family Alliance, a socially conservative lobbying group.<ref>{{cite news |last=Olberding |first=Matt |date=December 10, 2019 |title=Kim Russel reflects on her time at Bryan as Gronewold prepares to take over as president/CEO |url=https://journalstar.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/kim-russel-reflects-on-her-time-at-bryan-as-gronewold/article_10077022-d6de-5a2b-b454-3beac58887f3.html |work=Lincoln Journal Star |access-date=December 18, 2019 }}</ref>
==Bryan College of Health Sciences== {{Main|Bryan College of Health Sciences}}
Bryan College of Health Sciences is an undergraduate medical school located on Bryan Health's East Campus. It offers undergraduate degrees in Nursing, Ultrasound, Pre-med, Pre-PT and other health professions, and a Doctoral degree in Nurse Anesthesia Practice an Education Doctorate with Emphasis in Nursing Education and a Masters in Nursing with a track in Leadership or Education to choose from, as well as certificate programs for ancillary health professions. The college is an affiliate of Bryan Health.<ref>[http://www.bryanlgh.com/AbouttheCollege "About the college"], Bryan Health System website</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.bryanhealth.com/ Bryan Health Homepage] {{Nebraska Trauma Centers}}{{authority control}}
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