Tennessee should review HCA Healthcare's proposed purchase of Springfield, Tenn.-based NorthCrest Health, labor and union groups wrote in a letter to state Attorney General Herbert Slatery.

Below are eight hospital mergers called off since late May 2020, beginning with the most recent:

Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare and Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health have abandoned plans to merge into an $11.5 billion system, the organizations said in a joint statement June 2. 

Rhode Island regulators conditionally approved the sale of two privately owned hospitals in the state, ending an impasse that threatened to close the two facilities, according to The Wall Street Journal. 

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health sold its consulting and outsourced services division to an affiliate of Grant Avenue Capital, a healthcare-focused private equity firm. 

Providers in North Carolina have raised concerns about a proposed merger between Sentara Healthcare and Cone Health in public comment shared with the state's Department of Justice.

Tenet Health Central Coast inked a neurosurgery affiliation agreement with the University of California San Francisco and UCSF Health.

Lake Health officially joined University Hospitals April 16 through membership substitution, and integration initiatives are in full swing more than a month later to benefit patients and community members. 

Indiana (Pa.) Regional Medical Center and Chan Soon-Shiong Medical Center in Windber, Pa., signed a clinical affiliation agreement, according to a May 21 report in The Indiana Gazette.

A hospital under construction in Wyoming plans to enter a clinical partnership and management agreement with Billings (Mont.) Clinic, according to local news station KPVI.

Babylon, a digital health company in London, recently acquired a Novato, Calif.-based medical group with 700 physicians.

Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health and Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health have abandoned a deal that would have added 14 hospitals and three clinics to Essentia Health's network.

Six transactions involving hospitals and health systems have been announced, finalized or advanced since May 3.

New Bern, N.C.-based CarolinaEast Health System plans to affiliate with Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health to improve access to care in the state. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare plans to sell a 230-bed Georgia hospital to Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth, the for-profit hospital operator said May 13. 

Baylor Scott & White Health, a 51-hospital system in Dallas, has partnered with San Francisco-based One Medical to provide coordinated care in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.

University Health Care System, a three-hospital system based in Augusta, Ga., signed a letter of intent to join Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta. 

Gallup, N.M.-based Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services has a new, three-year management agreement with Community Hospital Consulting, according to a May 12 statement from both parties.

The Federal Trade Commission is asking a federal judge to stop Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health's acquisition of Englewood (N.J.) Health during the agency's antitrust challenge, according to Law360. 

Mon Health System in Morgantown, W.Va., and Minnie Hamilton Health System in Grantsville, W.Va., entered into a clinical affiliation that aims to increase access to specialty care.