Wellington (Fla.) Regional Medical Center, owned by for-profit hospital operator Universal Health Services, has acquired 35 acres of land in Florida for $12.3 million, according to the South Florida Business Journal. 

After failed merger attempts with Lifespan and unsuccessful acquisition talks with Partners HealthCare, Providence, R.I.-based Care New England is shifting its focus to staying independent, according to the Boston Business Journal.

The American Advanced Management Group has completed its purchase of Sonoma Specialty Hospital in Sebastopol, Calif., from the Palm Drive Health Care District, according to Sonoma West Times & News.

Mistakes are magnified in frothy capital markets when transaction prices and deal multiples are high.

McLaren Health Care, a 14 hospital system in Grand Blanc, Mich., has signed a letter of intent to acquire St. Luke's Hospital in Maumee, Ohio. 

Lafayette (La.) General Health and Jennings (La.) American Legion Hospital have signed a letter of intent to merge.

University of Louisville (Ky.) tried to partner with two other systems to help it buy Louisville-based Jewish Hospital and KentuckyOne Health's other assets, according to a new policy brief obtained by the Louisville Business First.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health has received a nonbinding proposal letter from KKR & Co., a New York City-based private equity firm, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Mendocino Coast District Hospital directors approved an agreement that would allow Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health to operate the Fort Bragg, Calif.-based hospital for the next 30 years, according to The Advocate News.

Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings says it cannot consider a $50 million acquisition offer from Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services because it has already entered into another deal, according to the Journal Inquirer.

Effective March 1, 2020, Baylor Scott & White Health will no longer operate a 237 licensed-bed hospital in Carrollton, Texas.

The healthcare industry saw 1,250 deals announced or completed through October of this year, according to Bloomberg Law. 

An independent monitor has been appointed to oversee Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare's $1.5 billion acquisition of Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health, according to the Nashville Post.

State officials approved Nov. 20 the merger of Butler (Pa.) Health System and Clarion (Pa.) Healthcare System.

Texas Health Resources, Methodist Health System and LHC Group, a home healthcare provider in Lafayette, La., together purchased an Arlington, Texas-based home health company. 

Rochester, N.H.-based Frisbie Memorial Hospital is a few steps closer to joining Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare.

Seven hospitals spread across Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and North Carolina will go up for auction on Dec. 19.

An outright sale of East Jefferson General Hospital has emerged as the favored option in partnership discussions between New Orleans-based LCMC Health and the Metairie, La.-based public hospital, according to people familiar with the negotiations cited by NOLA.com

Private equity took the heat as members of Congress questioned the industry's effect on retailers and hospitals during a House Financial Services Committee hearing Nov. 19, according to CBS News.

The total number of healthcare mergers and acquisitions hit a record high in 2018, and there were more than 400 deals announced in the third quarter of this year.