HCA struck an agreement to acquire an 8,000-student healthcare college, and an independent Maine hospital cleared a regulatory hurdle to joining MaineHealth. Here are three hospital M&A moves that Becker’s reported during the week of May 25: 1. York (Maine)…
Transactions & Valuation Issues
York (Maine) Hospital is a step closer to joining Portland-based MaineHealth after receiving certificate-of-need approval from the state’s department of health and human services. The independent hospital signed a letter of intent in October to join MaineHealth, citing an increasingly…
Marriottsville, Md.-based Bon Secours has doubled its urgent care footprint in Virginia following the integration of 12 former MedExpress urgent care centers, according to a May 28 news release shared with Becker’s. The locations, acquired in March 2025, now operate…
HCA Healthcare has agreed to acquire The College of Health Care Professions, a Houston-based allied healthcare training provider that enrolls more than 8,000 students annually across 10 Texas campuses and online. The Nashville-based health system announced the deal May 27…
Watertown, S.D.-based Prairie Lakes Healthcare System will begin transitioning its name and branding to Sanford Health Watertown in late June after the system merged in October with Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health. The phased rebranding is part of the two…
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Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed Health & Hospitals said it plans to continue pursuing its proposed combination with Atrium Health after receiving an unsolicited partnership proposal from Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health earlier this month. The development underscores the ongoing debate surrounding…
Major health systems are shedding hospitals and funneling the proceeds into ASCs. Tenet, Ascension and Community Health Systems have collectively divested dozens of hospitals in recent years, redirecting billions toward outpatient growth. Tenet Healthcare Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare offers perhaps the…
Quorum Health, a for-profit system headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., has signed a definitive agreement with nonprofit health system Healthside Partners to transition Quorum into a nonprofit organization spanning 11 hospitals across nine states. With the transition, Quorum plans to expand…
Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health and Minneapolis-based Allina Health have signed a definitive agreement formalizing plans to create a combined nonprofit health system spanning California, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Six things to know: 1. The transaction would create a system with 39…
Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth and Eugene (Ore.) Emergency Physicians have reached a three-year agreement for several PeaceHealth hospitals in the region after months of controversy surrounding its emergency department staffing contract. According to a news release shared with Becker’s May 20,…