Humana is in talks with Sarasota, Fla.-based MaxHealth — a primary care network and platform focused on adults and older adults — regarding an acquisition, Bloomberg reported Feb. 12. According to Bloomberg sources, MaxHealth, owned by private equity firm Arsenal…
Transactions & Valuation Issues
Hershey, Pa.-based Penn State Health has assumed 100% ownership of the Surgery Center of Lancaster in Manheim Township, Pa., effective Jan. 1. The health system previously held a 60% majority stake in the ASC. Full ownership is intended to expand…
Dayton (Ohio) Children’s Hospital will acquire Cincinnati-based Mercy Health’s pediatric practice in Urbana, Ohio, and its rehabilitation services in Springfield, Ohio, on March 9. Patients will receive care at the same locations from the same providers and therapists under the…
Columbia, Mo.-based MU Health Care CEO Ric Ransom recently shared an insight gleaned from the health system’s early 2024 integration of Jefferson City, Mo.-based Capital Regional Medical Center. The 100-bed facility had been a longtime partner of MU Health Care,…
Detroit-based Henry Ford Health has transferred its Madison Heights hospital to Warren, Mich.-based Trillium Health Care Management, which plans to convert the site into an inpatient behavioral health facility. Trillium will assume ownership of the facility and begin renovations to create a…
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CHS closed hospital sales in Tennessee and Pennsylvania, and UConn Health received state approval to acquire a Connecticut hospital. Here are five hospital M&A moves Becker’s reported on during the week of Feb. 2: 1. Detroit-based Henry Ford Health is…
With health systems now controlling the majority of U.S. hospital beds, mergers often promise better care. However, a paper published in September 2025 in Social Science & Medicine by University of Pennsylvania researchers Mark Pauly, PhD, and Lawton Burns, PhD,…
Two major academic health system developments — one collaborative, one contentious — highlight how questions of governance, control and financial stewardship are increasingly defining relationships between universities and their affiliated health systems. In Minneapolis, the University of Minnesota, Fairview Health…
Irving, Texas-based Christus Health has been selected as the strategic partner for Titus Regional Medical Center, following a board vote to proceed with the sale of the independent hospital. The board of managers at Mount Pleasant, Texas-based Titus Regional Medical…
From Community Health Systems closing a deal that saw it exit Pennsylvania, to Hartford HealthCare capping a deal to acquire a Connecticut hospital, here are five hospital mergers and acquisitions completed in 2026: 1. Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems completed…