Downers Grove, Illinois and Milwaukee-based health care provider Advocate Aurora Health and Charlotte, North Carolina-based Atrium Health today announced their plans to merge.

The deal brings together two large health systems to create an even bigger one, called Advocate Health, that will be based in Charlotte.

Advocate Health says it will “maintain a strong presence in Chicago and Milwaukee,” including a new institute for health equity, which will be located in Milwaukee.

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