Mergers and Acquisitions

To navigate the integration process successfully, healthcare executives must take steps to best align their people with the vision for the newly combined organization.

Dignity Health, part of CommonSpirit Health, has purchased Arizona General Hospital and seven freestanding emergency departments in a $160 million deal.

Prime Healthcare has reached a deal to buy Ascension’s hospitals in Illinois. Ascension has been selling some facilities as it looks to improve its financial position.

The first half of the year has seen a number of intriguing deals. Some larger systems are doing better, and some smaller hospitals are struggling and seeking partners.

Sanford Health and Marshfield Clinic Health System said they have signed a non-binding agreement. Both systems explored mergers with different partners recently.

It took some time, but Liberty Hospital has joined the University of Kansas Health System.

WellSpan Health has welcomed Evangelical Community Hospital into the organization.

The state’s attorney general brokered an agreement with UCSF Health on its acquisition of two hospitals from CommonSpirit Health. UCSF Health will invest $430M in capital improvements.

Catholic Medical Center has signed a purchase agreement with HCA Healthcare. The New Hampshire hospital has been struggling financially.

The Federal Trade Commission made its first comments after Novant Health dropped plans to buy two hospitals from Community Health Systems. Regulators have spurred several hospitals to abandon planned mergers.

Atlantic Health System and Saint Peter’s Healthcare System approved the pact, which comes months after announcing their intention to consolidate.

The UAB Health System has reached a deal to take full ownership of Ascension St. Vincent’s Health System in Alabama.

The organization, founded by Kaiser Permanente, is moving to buy Cone Health. Risant recently finalized its acquisition of Geisinger.

Rhode Island officials have given conditional approval of the sale of Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, provided some key provisions are met.

Lifespan and Brown University have finalized plans for a closer relationship, and Lifespan will soon become Brown University Health.

Novant Health has abandoned its planned purchase of two facilities after the Federal Trade Commission secured an injunction delaying the deal.

Shannon Medical Center has agreed to buy the River Crest Hospital from Universal Health Services, the for-profit system.

The FTC has opposed Novant Health’s purchase of two hospitals from Community Health Systems, but a federal court has approved the deal.

Med Center Health says it expects to add Logan Memorial Hospital to the system in July.

Oregon Health & Science University and Legacy Health have signed a deal to come together, under the banner of OHSU Health.

Cooper University Health Care and Cape Regional Health System are planning to come together. A state court has signed off on the deal.

Samaritan Health Services and Santiam Hospital & Clinics say they are planning an affiliation.

Overlake Medical Center & Clinics and the MultiCare Health System have signed an affiliation agreement. When the deal is finalized, Overlake will become part of MultiCare.

The Pennsylvania hospital systems have signed an agreement to come together. The merged organization would run 30 hospitals and become one of the nation’s 15 largest nonprofit health systems.

OSF HealthCare and Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital are negotiating with plans to come together.