Los Angeles-based Stockdale Capital Partners, a real estate investment firm, has acquired properties housing Banner Health outpatient clinics in the Phoenix area.

Lawmakers are trying to block a proposed merger between Liberty (Mo.) Hospital and Kansas City-based University of Kansas Health System, but a hospital board member is pushing back, the Missouri Independent reported Feb. 12.  

Progressive Health Systems, an Oxford, Miss.-based hospital management group, completed its acquisition of Helena-West Helena, Ark.-based Helena Regional Medical Center,  Arkansas Business reported Feb. 12. 

The University of Minnesota and its affiliated physicians are moving to purchase facilities that it has shared for six years with Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services. 

San Francisco-based UCSF Health and Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health have shared a joint intent to reopen and operate Madera (Calif.) Community Hospital, which has been closed since the start of 2023. 

Denver-based Everside Health and Indianapolis-based Marathon Health, both primary care providers, have merged, combining more than 680 health centers across 41 states to serve 2.5 million eligible patients.

San Francisco-based UCSF Health has signed a $100 million definitive agreement with San Francisco-based Dignity Health to take on two of its hospitals: Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and St. Mary's Medical Center, both of which are in the city.

Arcata, Calif.-based Mad River Community Hospital and management company Southwest Healthcare Services have ended sale discussions for the hospital.

Binghamton, N.Y.-based Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital system has officially joined Sayre, Pa.-based the Guthrie Clinic.

Estée Lauder's Clinique cosmetic company has partnered with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City to establish a dermatology center to research skin health. 

Minneapolis-based Allina Health is partnering with Optum to improve care for patients and providers across Minnesota and Western Wisconsin.

Medical City Healthcare in Dallas, a subsidiary of HCA Healthcare, is now a 20-hospital system upon its completed purchase of a nearby hospital that filed for bankruptcy in 2023.

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has completed its $2.4 billion acquisition of three hospitals along with their affiliated physician clinics from Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare. 

Orange, Calif.-based UCI Health has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Tenet Healthcare's Pacific Coast Network, which includes four hospitals in Southern California and their associated outpatient locations.

Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System and New Brunswick, N.J.-based Saint Peter's Healthcare System have signed a letter of intent to bring Saint Peter's into Atlantic Health's care network to expand care access.

More than two dozen hospital mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, affiliations and partnerships were unwound or called off throughout the past few years.

Healthcare mergers and acquisitions face a number of rising threats: high interest rates, regulatory probes and "macroeconomic uncertainty," to name a few. That means deals will need to be more thoughtful in 2024, according to a Jan. 30 article on Bain & Co.'s website.

The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission on Jan. 25 called for further review of the proposed clinical affiliation between Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at BIDMC. 

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has penned a letter complicating a proposed merger between Liberty (Mo.) Hospital and the Kansas City-based University of Kansas Health System, The Kansas City Star reported Jan. 25. 

The Federal Trade Commission said it is suing Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health in a move to block its $320 million acquisition of two North Carolina hospitals from Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems.