Transactions & Valuation Issues

Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and Orange, Calif.-based Children's Hospital of Orange County have officially merged to form Rady Children's Health, a three-hospital system with multiple primary and specialty care centers. 

Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare plans to acquire Lewiston-based Central Maine Healthcare by the end of the year. 

Ithaca, N.Y.-based Cayuga Health System and Elmira, N.Y.-based Arnot Health have merged into a five-hospital system with more than $1 billion in annual revenue. 

Healthcare mergers and acquisitions decreased 9% between 2023 and 2024, but an increase in deals is expected in 2025, according to PwC.

New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella's office has approved Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare's acquisition of Manchester, N.H.-based Catholic Medical Center. 

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Mount Pleasant, S.C.-based Southeastern Spine Institute joined Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health, effective Jan. 1. 

Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke's University Health Network has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Grand View Health in Sellersville, Pa.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Ardent Health has acquired 18 urgent care clinics from Tempe, Ariz.-based NextCare Urgent Care in New Mexico and Oklahoma.

Several hospital and health system mergers and acquisitions closed as 2024 turned into 2025.