The proposed merger between Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health cleared a key hurdle Monday, getting the OK from a key state body.
The combined organization would have 67 hospitals—40 from Charlotte, North Carolina-based Atrium and 27 from Advocate Aurora, which is jointly headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, and Milwaukee—and nearly 150,000 employees in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina and…