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GE HealthCare, Catholic Health Sign 10-Year, $500 Million Care Alliance

• By John K. Waters
• 07/29/2026

GE HealthCare and Catholic Health, a six-hospital nonprofit system on Long Island, New York, announced a 10-year strategic partnership on July 16 valued at approximately $ 500 million. The companies are calling it a Care Alliance, a model GE HealthCare has used with a handful of other large health systems to bundle equipment purchases with cloud software, AI tools, and long-term service support.

"This Care Alliance represents an important investment in the future of health care on Long Island and reflects Catholic Health's commitment to innovating in ways that improve how care is delivered," Gary Havican, Catholic Health's interim president and CEO and chief operating officer, said in the companies' joint announcement. "By combining Catholic Health's clinical expertise and commitment to compassionate, high-quality care with GE HealthCare's advanced technology, AI-driven tools, and digital capabilities, we are enhancing our ability to deliver precision care, expand access to specialized services closer to home, and create a more seamless experience for patients and clinicians."

The agreement is structured as a multivendor service arrangement covering equipment delivery, maintenance, education, and training, rather than a traditional piece-by-piece equipment purchase. GE HealthCare and Catholic Health said in their announcement that the bundled structure, which relies on unitary payments and pricing accelerators, should cost Catholic Health less than buying equipment separately, freeing up resources the system can redirect toward technology modernization and clinical program growth.

More than 1,300 new pieces of technology are slated to arrive across Catholic Health's hospital and outpatient sites, with roughly half of that equipment delivered within the first three years. New gear spans CT, nuclear medicine, X-ray, diagnostic cardiology, anesthesia, and ultrasound, according to the companies. Early rollouts, expected within months, include contrast-enhanced mammography for breast imaging and biopsy services, along with additional diagnostic imaging capabilities and maternal-infant care monitoring tools.

Four Catholic Health service lines are targeted for expansion under the agreement: cardiology, oncology, neurology, and women's health. Plans include extending advanced cardiac imaging to more outpatient sites, expanding nuclear medicine capabilities at St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center and at Good Samaritan University Hospital, and adding hundreds of ultrasound systems intended to support point-of-care use, including at the bedside.

Beyond equipment, the Care Alliance includes cloud and AI software meant to reduce manual work and ease what the companies described as clinicians' cognitive load. Among the named tools is Imaging 360, a cloud-based radiology operations platform that unifies workflows and gives health systems a multi-site view of their imaging operations. The companies also pointed to new MR, CT, and PET scanners equipped with on-device AI intended to speed the path from diagnosis to treatment.

The agreement also includes an operational element GE HealthCare and Catholic Health described as distinctive: an embedded cardiovascular scientist who will work directly with Catholic Health clinicians to surface physician perspectives and clinical insights that could shape future equipment and technology decisions.

"Together, we are aligning people, process and technology to deliver measurable impact for patients and clinicians," Rachel Gilbreath, GE HealthCare's region president for the East in the United States and Canada, said of the partnership.

The Catholic Health agreement is not GE HealthCare's first Care Alliance of this scale. The company has struck similar long-term, technology-and-service partnerships with other U.S. health systems in recent years, including Sutter Health, UCSF Health, Hartford HealthCare, Duke Health, and Queen's Health Systems. GE HealthCare and Catholic Health described the new deal as one of the largest such alliances GE HealthCare has established with a U.S. health system to date.

Catholic Health employs more than 17,000 people across its Long Island footprint, which includes more than 1,900 hospital beds, and reported 3.7 billion dollars in net revenue last year, according to its 2025 annual report. GE HealthCare, which spun out of General Electric in 2023, is a 20.6-billion-dollar business that recently announced a broader reorganization of its operations and executive leadership team.