After months of uncertainty about a potential sale, Jersey City, N.J.-based CarePoint Health has agreed to sell one of its hospitals to BMC Hospital.

Tyrone (Pa) Hospital plans to integrate with DuBois, Pa.-based Penn Highlands Healthcare, the two organizations announced March 18. 

Strategic Global Management, a for-profit healthcare company, would pay $50 million in cash to acquire two California hospitals out of bankruptcy. However, the hospitals' owner, Verity Health System, is blocking the bid, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Six health systems submitted proposals to acquire or partner with New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, N.C., by the March 16 deadline.

Ten transactions involving hospitals and health systems that were announced, finalized or advanced since March 1:

CRH Healthcare, an Atlanta-based urgent care provider, has acquired three Maryland urgent care centers from ChoiceOne Urgent Care. 

Einstein Healthcare Network was valued at $599 million in a proposed acquisition by Jefferson Health, according to a newly unsealed document cited by The Philadelphia Inquirer. 

Wauwatosa, Wis.-based Froedtert Health plans to buy a minority stake in Manitowoc, Wis.-based Holy Family Memorial Medical Center.

Maimonides Medical Center and New York Community Hospital, both in Brooklyn, plan to expand their clinical partnership into a full merger.

The American Hospital Association is blasting the Federal Trade Commission's challenge of the merger of Jefferson Health and Einstein Healthcare Network, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal.

The physician groups of Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital and Tampa-based USF Health Morsani College of Medicine plan to combine.

The size of the average healthcare private equity deal rose 25 percent, to $78.9 billion, in 2019, according to Bain and Company's ninth Global Healthcare Private Equity and Corporate M&A Report.

Hudson County officials joined together March 9 to call out the owner of nursing home chain Alaris Health for blocking the sale of CarePoint Health's hospitals to potential buyers, according to NJ Biz.

Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health System will purchase the 67-bed Riverside Tappahannock (Va.) Hospital and its related medical services from Newport News, Va.-based Riverside Health System. 

Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, Calif., has signed a letter of intent to join Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Health System.

Cumberland, Md.-based UPMC Western Maryland has sold its nursing and rehabilitation center and plans to reopen an urgent care clinic in the next 60 days, two local news organizations reported.

Lake Health, a Mentor, Ohio-based health system with 600 physicians, is exploring whether a strategic partnership would best prepare it for healthcare's shift to consumerism and new technologies, according to Crain's Cleveland Business.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Health has entered into an agreement to sell three hospitals and a freestanding emergency room in South Carolina to Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health.

McCready Health, a single-hospital system in Crisfield, Md., has merged with Salisbury, Md.-based Peninsula Regional Health System.

Health systems nationwide are looking for ways to improve the overall health of their communities while cutting costs. One emerging trend is investing in primary care and express care sites.