Summa Health Begins Using AI Phone Calls for Surgery Prep and Post-Care Eight Months After General Catalyst Acquisition

Patients across northeast Ohio are now receiving AI-generated phone calls that guide them through surgery preparation and post-hospital care. The calls are part of a transformation plan General Catalyst began after purchasing Summa Health in October 2025.

Health Assurance Transformation Company executives gave their first media interviews since the acquisition and described how the holding company is testing tools developed by General Catalyst portfolio companies.

Summa Health, an Akron-based safety-net hospital, was selected as the initial proving ground. The venture capital firm cited slow technology adoption across health systems as the reason for the purchase, which remains a rare case of a VC firm acquiring a hospital. HATCo plans to distribute successful innovations to more than two dozen partner health systems.

The article reporting these developments was published June 1, 2026, two years after General Catalyst first announced the planned acquisition and eight months after the deal closed. Brittany Trang, STAT health tech reporter covering AI in health and medicine, wrote the piece.