GE Healthcare moves headquarters to Chicago

GE Healthcare announced on Jan. 12 that it would move its headquarters to Chicago effective in early 2016. The headquarters are currently in Amersham, United Kingdom.

GE Healthcare CEO John Flannery told the Chicago Tribune that the company would move into space already leased by GE Transportation, another General Electric subsidiary. Flannery also told the newspaper that Chicago did not offer any tax incentives.

“We are excited to strengthen GE’s roots in Chicago, where we will continue our focus on being the leading provider of outcome-based solutions for the healthcare industry,” Flannery said in a news release. “Chicago has a rich industrial heritage, terrific international transportation links and is close to some of the world’s leading healthcare and academic institutions. It is also ideally located for many of GE Healthcare’s operations.”

Tim Casey,

Executive Editor

Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.

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