Lebanon, Ind.-based Witham Health Services has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to join Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health. The 60-bed independent county hospital said the decision to join Parkview comes after consideration by its board of trustees and executive…
Transactions & Valuation Issues
The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board approved Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare’s acquisition of Franciscan Health Olympia Fields (Ill.). The 214-bed hospital is expected to transition to Prime on May 1, according to an April 14 news release shared…
Renton, Wash.-based Providence has reached a definitive agreement to transfer Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa, Calif., and its affiliated ambulatory clinics to San Francisco-based NorthBay Health. The two parties signed a letter of intent for NorthBay to…
Large Catholic health systems and for-profit operators continued trimming hospital portfolios in the first quarter of 2026. Of the 22 announced hospital transactions announced in the first three months of 2026, six involved a for-profit seller and three involved a…
Hospital transactions continued an upward swing in the first quarter of 2026, according to Kaufman Hall’s M&A quarterly activity report released April 9. The 22 announced transactions were a five-year high for first quarters and the report noted “signs of…
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In early March, Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Health shared plans to acquire eight acute care hospitals from Louisville, Ky.-based ScionHealth, an agreement that Lifepoint President and CFO Aaron Lewis said is consistent with the system’s overall growth plans and trajectory. “The…
Orlando (Fla.) Health plans to acquire Anniston, Ala.-based RMC Health System, continuing its push into Alabama. In October 2024, Orlando Health acquired Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare’s 70% ownership stake in Birmingham, Ala.-based Brookwood Baptist Health — a five-hospital, 1,700-bed system —…
Community Health Systems sold another hospital, while UConn Health is planning to acquire a children’s psychiatric facility. Here are three hospital M&A updates that Becker’s reported during the week of March 30: 1. Farmington, Conn.-based UConn Health shared plans to…
Farmington, Conn.-based UConn Health has shared plans to integrate Middletown, Conn.-based Solnit Hospital, a children and adolescent psychiatric facility, into a satellite location of its UConn John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington. “This collaboration reflects our shared commitment to delivering exceptional,…
From Community Health Systems closing a deal that saw it exit Pennsylvania, to Baptist Memorial Health Care acquiring its 25th hospital, here are 12 hospital mergers and acquisitions completed in 2026: 1. Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems on April 1…