Summa Health – headquartered in Akron, Ohio – is one of Ohio’s largest integrated healthcare delivery systems, encompassing two main hospitals, 20 health centers, and a dedicated team of over 8,500 employees and nearly 700 employed physicians and advanced practice providers. With a legacy spanning more than 130 years, Summa Health has built a foundation of excellence in the Greater Akron region.
In 2025, Summa Health entered a groundbreaking new chapter by joining the Health Assurance Transformation Company (HATCo), a platform founded by General Catalyst to redesign the future of healthcare. A first-of-its-kind acquisition, Summa Health and HATCo are working to create a next-generation health system that honors our history while aggressively pursuing innovation. Our goal is to replace fragmented care with a proactive, lifelong healthcare model that empowers patients and improves outcomes.
Together, we are embarking on a long-term vision to move beyond traditional sick care toward a proactive, tech-enabled system of health assurance. We aren’t just preparing for the future of healthcare—we are building it. By joining our team, you will help us leverage innovative technology and sustainable business practices to eliminate barriers to care, creating a modern blueprint for healthcare delivery that serves as a model for the rest of the nation.
Together, Summa Health encompasses a network of:
Summa Health provides services to a five-county area – Summit, Medina, Portage, Stark and Wayne – within Northeast Ohio. With medical services organized under the umbrella of Summa Health System, we have served millions of patients in comprehensive acute, critical, emergency, urgent care, outpatient and long-term/home-care settings.
This includes licensing more than 870 inpatient beds in the following clinical settings, as of March 2026:
All of our services include integrated and coordinated care in an effort to positively impact the health of our entire community.
Summa Health is committed to offering a full continuum of compassionate coordinated care. Our services follow patients from preventive care through medical incidents, rehabilitation and maintenance. With care being coordinated among all of our providers – primary physicians, surgeons, therapists, etc. – conditions have a greater chance of being detected and treated earlier, which typically result in better outcomes for our patients.