Tower Health, a six-hospital system in West Reading, Pa., is looking for a partner to buy the entire system, but the biggest health systems in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are not interested, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

Temple University Hospital, part of Philadelphia-based Temple Health, has signed an agreement to acquire a cancer hospital in Philadelphia from Cancer Treatment Centers of America.

Four healthcare organizations in Philadelphia have united to save and transform the Mercy Philadelphia Hospital campus. 

Behavioral healthcare provider Acadia Healthcare signed a definitive agreement to buy Adventist Health's behavioral health hospital in Vallejo, Calif.

A bankruptcy judge approved the sale of Calais (Maine) Regional Hospital to Down East Community Hospital in Machias, Maine, March 24, according to the Bangor Daily News.

SEIU, the largest union of healthcare workers in the U.S., is urging the Georgia attorney general to reject HCA Healthcare's proposed acquisition of a rural Georgia hospital. 

An Illinois review board approved March 22 the sale of Mercy Hospital & Medical Center in Chicago to nonprofit Insight Chicago, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. 

Kansas City, Mo.-based Noble Health has acquired a 100-year-old Missouri hospital from St. Louis-based SSM Health. 

Eight transactions involving hospitals and health systems have been announced, finalized or advanced since March 1:

Los Angeles-based Keck Medicine of USC and Arcadia-based Methodist Hospital of Southern California are exploring a clinical affiliation, they said this week.  

Harnett Health, a two-hospital system in Dunn, N.C., said it plans to join Cape Fear Valley Health in Fayetteville, N.C., by the end of March. 

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting the industry, global healthcare private equity deal volume rose to record levels last year, according to a Bain & Co.'s 10th Global Healthcare Private Equity and M&A Report. 

Sanford Health is no longer pursuing a merger with Intermountain Healthcare, a Sanford spokesperson confirmed with Becker's Hospital Review March 15.

Leaders on Chicago's South Side are urging the state of Illinois to buy Mercy Hospital & Medical Center temporarily, according to CBS Chicago.

Trinity Health, a 92-hospital system based in Livonia, Mich., has acquired a majority ownership stake in Premier Health, a Baton Rouge, La.-based operator of urgent care clinics. 

Oklahoma City-based OU Medicine and its parent organization have signed a letter of intent to merge with the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine to create an academic health system.

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare said March 9 it plans to acquire a majority ownership stake in Kindred Hospital Peoria.

Insight Chicago is offering to purchase Mercy Hospital & Medical Center in Chicago for $1, a new regulatory filing reveals. 

The Federal Trade Commission has closed its investigation into the proposed merger of Macon, Ga.-based Atrium Health Navicent and Warner Robins, Ga.-based Houston Healthcare after the health systems called off their plan to combine. 

Mercy Hospital & Medical Center in Chicago has secured a nonbinding purchase agreement with Insight Chicago just months before it is slated to close its doors, according to the Chicago Tribune.