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  • Minnesota attorney general issues subpoenas as Sanford-Fairview merger talks inch forward

    Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has issued subpoenas to Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health, its CEO Bill Gassen confirmed at a March 8 state Senate hearing. Mr. Ellison's investigation into Sanford's proposed merger with Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services has entered a new phase — one that requires sworn statements from certain individuals involved, MPR News reported.
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  • Beth Israel Lahey Health and Exeter Health combination inching forward

    The long-awaited combination of Cambridge, Mass.-based Beth Israel Lahey Health and Exeter (N.H.) Health Resources has taken another step forward after a public meeting earlier this month, according to a March 7 report in The Salem News.
  • Fairview, Sanford say university can take hospital back, but details still unclear

    Ahead of their proposed merger, Fairview Health Services and Sanford Health have offered to return Minneapolis' east and west bank hospitals to the University of Minnesota — but the details of that transaction remain unclear, according to the Star Tribune.
  • CarolinaEast Health ends affiliation with UNC Health

    New Bern, N.C.-based CarolinaEast Health System is ending its partnership with Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health on March 31, the New Bern Sun Journal reported March 6.
  • Healthcare M&A carries on strong momentum into February: 12 transactions to note

    Here are 12 major hospital and healthcare merger and acquisition-related transactions from February:
  • Presbyterian Healthcare and UnityPoint unite: How an $11B merger unfolded

    Clay Holderman, CEO of UnityPoint Health, and Dale Maxwell, CEO of Presbyterian Healthcare Services, had been talking for a while about seeking partnerships with other health systems when it finally dawned on them they should be talking to each other about a possible merger between their two organizations.
  • Presbyterian Healthcare, UnityPoint Health to explore possible merger

    阿尔伯克基普通长老会医疗Services and West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health are exploring the possibility of a merger that could result in an approximately $11 billion entity.
  • Lifepoint acquires 4 inpatient rehab facilities

    Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Health has acquired four inpatient rehabilitation facilities from Dallas-based Everest Rehabilitation Hospitals.
  • Iowa health systems combine

    Davenport, Iowa-based Genesis Health System is now part of MercyOne, the West Des Moines, Iowa-based subsidiary of Trinity Health.
  • The FTC could come for 'cross-market' hospital mergers next

    Several mergers between health systems in different states closed in the last year, with more "megamergers" anticipated to come as large systems pursue further economies of scale amid challenging financial headwinds, according to McDermott Will and Emery's "Hospitals and Health Systems 2023 Outlook."
  • HCA subsidiary to acquire 3-hospital system in Texas

    Dallas-based Medical City Healthcare, a division of HCA Healthcare, is advancing talks to acquire Wise Health System, a three-hospital system headquartered in Decatur, Texas, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
  • Community Health Systems, Novant ink dual-hospital sale

    Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems has signed a definitive agreement to sell two hospitals to Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health.
  • Grand View Health, Doylestown Health form deeper alliance

    Sellersview, Pa.-based Grand View Health said it has formed an alliance with Doylestown (Pa.) Health to "deepen" the relationship between the two systems.
  • ProMedica strikes $710M deal to sell hospice, home-care assets

    托莱多,俄亥俄州ProMedica已同意卖掉它s hospice and home-care business to Gentiva, a hospice company backed by Humana and private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice, according to a Feb. 27 Bloomberg report.
  • Little Company of Mary Sisters passes Indiana hospital to Deaconess

    Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center, based in Jasper, Ind., has signed a letter of intent to affiliate with Evansville, Ind.-based Deaconess Health System, the Dubois County Free Press reported Feb. 21.
  • Blount Memorial CEO hits back at mayor's call to have U of Tennessee run hospital

    Blount (Tenn.) Memorial Hospital CEO Harold Naramore, MD, is accusing Blount County Mayor Ed Mitchell of interfering in hospital operations after the mayor proposed Knoxville-based University of Tennessee Medical Center take over operations of the hospital, NBC affiliate WBIR reported Feb. 17.
  • New York hospitals scrapping merger is 'good news for patients and healthcare workers,' FTC says

    The Federal Trade Commission has welcomed the State University of New York Upstate Medical University and Crouse Health System's decision to abandon their proposed merger, which it said would have left Syracuse with just two hospital systems — Upstate and St. Joseph's Health — and given the combined entity a 67 percent share of commercially insured inpatient services in Onondaga County.
  • Logan Health, Billings Clinic pursuing merger

    Kalispell, Mont.-based Logan Health, a six-hospital system, and Billings Clinic have inked a letter of intent to explore merging into one independent health system to improve healthcare access, service and quality in Montana and northern Wyoming.
  • Mayor asks U of Tennessee to take over Blount County Memorial

    Blount County, Tenn., Mayor Ed Mitchell will ask the Blount County Board of Commissioners to transfer operations ownership of Blount County Memorial Hospital to Knoxville-based University of Tennessee Medical Center, The Daily Times reported Feb. 15.
  • Steward to sell 5 hospitals to CommonSpirit

    CommonSpirit Health will acquire Steward Health Care's sites of care in Utah, which will then be managed by Centura Health, the systems announced Feb. 15.