Hospital transactions from month of January 2014.
Oakland, Calif.-based Alameda Health System officially assumed ownership of San Leandro (Calif.) Hospital from Sutter Health in Sacramento, Calif.
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, based in Lexington, Ky., plans to close Williamson (W.Va.) Memorial Hospital after acquiring it.
Aspen (Colo.) Valley Hospital has been selected to join the Mayo Clinic Care Network, the first Colorado provider to be included.
Baptist Health in Little Rock, Ark., and Hot Spring County Medical Center in Malvern, Ark., entered into a long-term lease agreement, effective Jan. 1, 2014.
Baptist Health in Jacksonville, Fla., Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, Fla., and Southeast Georgia Health System in Brunswick signed a letter of intent to create a loose affiliation.
Bassett Healthcare Network, a six-hospital system based in Cooperstown, N.Y., and Rome (N.Y.) Memorial Hospital signed a nonbinding letter of intent to partner.
Winfield, Ill.-based Cadence Health and Rockford (Ill.) Health System signed a letter of intent to combine their organizations.
Conway (Ark.) Regional Health System launched a formal search for an affiliation partner.
The primary governing group for independent physicians at East Jefferson General Hospital in Metairie, La., endorsed Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America as a lease partner.
Fauquier Health in Warrenton, Va., officially joined Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Hospitals, as both parties finalized their joint venture agreement.
Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., and AtlantiCare in Atlantic City, N.J., signed a letter of intent to partner.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health and Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane gave the go-ahead to the merger between Danville-based Geisinger Health System and Lewistown (Pa.) Hospital.
Gulf Coast Medical Center in Panama City, Fla., signed a formal clinical affiliation agreement with Doctors Memorial Hospital in Bonifay, Fla.
Lafayette (La.) General Health and American Legion Hospital in Crowley, La., signed a letter of intent to consider a long-term lease agreement.
In October, Lake Shore Health Care Center in Irving, N.Y., announced plans to close in January, but a company reportedly is willing to buy the 220-bed hospital.
The Orleans Parish Hospital Service District A and New Orleans-based LCMC Health signed a nonbinding letter of intent to work toward LCMC operating the New Orleans East Hospital.
Montefiore Health System, a New York Citybased academic medical center, completed its acquisition of the bankrupt Sound Shore Health System, based in New Rochelle, N.Y.
Johnson City, Tenn.-based Mountain States Health Alliance officially acquired Unicoi County Memorial Hospital in Erwin, Tenn.
The Rhode Island Department of Health approved Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services’ purchase of Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket, R.I.
Executives at Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, N.Y., disclosed that they are in partnership talks with Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Rush University Medical Center in Chicago completedits acquisition of Rush Oak Park (Ill.) Hospital, completing a deal 15 years in the making.
The expected closing date for the sale of Denville, N.J.-based Saint Clare’s Health System to Ontario, Calif.-based, for-profit Prime Healthcare Services was pushed back to the first half of 2014.
Salem (Ore.) Health received offers from seven different healthcare organizations to partner or merge.
The city of El Centro, Calif., entered into a 90-day exclusive negotiating agreement with San Diegobased Scripps Health concerning the health system’s potential acquisition and management of El Centro Regional Medical Center.
SSM Health Care of Oklahoma, a subsidiary of St. Louis-based SSM Health Care, is reportedly looking to back out of its management agreement with Pauls Valley (Okla.) General Hospital, which filed for bankruptcy in 2013.
St. Francis Hospital, a 376-bed community hospital based in Columbus, Ga., agreed to become a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network.
The number of healthcare organizations interested in a potential affiliation, joint venture or partnership with Tulare (Calif.) Regional Medical Center, a 112-bed public hospital, dropped to four.
UNC Health Care System in Chapel Hill, N.C., is considering a partnership with Rocky Mount, N.C.-based Nash Health Care.
The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board approved the affiliation deal between UnityPoint Health-Methodist and Proctor Hospital, both based in Peoria, Ill.
The University of Chicago Medicine, one of the major academic medical center hubs within the city, signed a master affiliation agreement with Franciscan Alliance, a Catholic health system based in northern Indiana.
Two of Wisconsin’s leading integrated health systems — UW Health in Madison and Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee — initiated exploratory discussions to find how they can collaborate and “enhance the delivery of high-quality, affordable healthcare to Wisconsin and the surrounding region.”
WestCare Health System, based in Sylva, N.C., decided to partner with Duke LifePoint Healthcare, a joint venture of Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Health System and Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Hospitals.