From HCA adding hospitals in New Hampshire and Florida to Sanford Health and Marshfield Clinic Health System finalizing their 56-hospital merger, here are 14 hospital mergers and acquisitions completed in 2025:
1. Doylestown (Pa.) Health joined the University of Pennsylvania Health System on April 1 and is now known as Penn Medicine Doylestown Health along with its affiliates. The 245-bed teaching hospital became Penn Medicine’s seventh hospital.
2. The County of Santa Clara, Calif., assumed ownership and operations of San Jose, Calif.-based Regional Medical Center on April 1. The county acquired the hospital from Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare for $175 million. The 252-bed facility is now part of San Jose-based Santa Clara Valley Healthcare.
3. Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Health System completed its $284 million acquisition of Lake Norman Regional Medical Center and related businesses in Mooresville, N.C., from subsidiaries of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems on April 1.
4. New York City-based NYU Langone Health completed its merger with Patchogue, N.Y.-based Long Island Community Hospital on March 3. The 306-bed hospital is NYU Langone’s seventh inpatient facility and is now known as NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk.
5. Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth completed its acquisition of ShorePoint Health-Port Charlotte (Fla.) and certain assets of ShorePoint Health-Punta Gorda (Fla.) from CHS on March 1. AdventHealth acquired the hospitals for $260 million.
6. Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare completed its acquisition of eight Illinois hospitals from St. Louis-based Ascension on March 1. A ninth hospital, Chicago-based Ascension St. Elizabeth was included in the deal, but the facility closed in mid-February. Prime plans to work with the city of Chicago and the community to determine the best plan moving forward for the hospital. The purchase also included four post-acute and senior living facilities, and two ASCs.
7. HCA completed its acquisition of Lehigh Acres, Fla.-based Lehigh Regional Medical Center from Prime Healthcare on Feb. 27. The 53-bed hospital — renamed HCA Florida Lehigh Hospital — is part of HCA’s west Florida division.
8. HCA completed its $110 million acquisition of Manchester, N.H.-based Catholic Medical Center on Feb. 1. HCA committed to maintaining CMC’s Catholic identity and dedicated $200 million in capital infusion over the next 10 years to “help modernize infrastructure and expand clinical services,” including the Manchester, N.H.-based New England Heart and Vascular Institute and the emergency department.
9. Gulfport, Miss.-based Memorial Health System completed its acquisition of Merit Health Biloxi (Miss.) on Jan. 31. The 153-bed facility became Memorial’s third hospital.
10. Tenor Health Partners, a hospital turnaround company, received court approval Jan. 10 to purchase Dallas-based Steward Health Care’s Sharon (Pa.) Regional Hospital for $1.9 million after the hospital closed Jan. 5. The hospital reopened and began accepting patients on March 18.
11. Ithaca, N.Y.-based Cayuga Health System and Elmira, N.Y.-based Arnot Health merged on Jan.7 into a five-hospital system with more than $1 billion in annual revenue. The combined entity, which now operates under the name Centralus Health, has more than 6,500 employees serving a nine-county region. Arnot and Cayuga’s campuses and offices will retain their names.
12. Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health and Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System merged on Jan. 2 into a 56-hospital integrated health system operating as Sanford Health. Each party’s health plans, Sanford Health Plan and Security Health Plan, will maintain existing operations under a common management reporting and governance structure.
13. Columbus, Ohio-based OhioHealth acquired Mount Gilead, Ohio-based Morrow County Hospital on Jan. 1. The 25-bed critical access facility became OhioHealth’s 16th hospital.
14. Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare acquired Dixon, Ill.-based Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital on Jan. 1. The 80-bed facility — now operating as St. Katharine Medical Center — became OSF’s 17th hospital.