A private equity-backed dermatology practice in Lombard, Ill., and Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center have agreed to affiliate, both entities announced June 4.
Transactions & Valuation Issues
Boston-based Partners HealthCare announced June 4 that it will withdraw its application to acquire Care New England Health System, a three-hospital system based in Providence, R.I., according to the Boston Business Journal.
The Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, or SEARHC, won't take over Sitka (Alaska) Community Hospital July 1 as planned, according to local radio station KCAW.
UNC Health Care in Chapel Hill, N.C., disputed claims it had plans to acquire or partner with Greenville, N.C.-based Vidant Medical Center.
Barnesville Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Belmont County, Ohio, will join WVU Hospitals and the West Virginia University Health System on June 1.
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HSC Health Care System and Children's National Health System have signed a definitive agreement to combine the two Washington, D.C.-based systems.
Passport Health Plan, a health insurance company controlled by healthcare providers in Louisville, Ky., will sell 70 percent of its stake to health plan administrator Evolent Health, according to local news station WDBR.
King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services is partnering with Vera Whole Health, a Seattle-based primary care company, to improve health outcomes of its health plan members.
University of California San Francisco Health has dropped a plan to expand its partnership with San Francisco-based Dignity Health.
Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md., will get full control of Doctors Community Health System, a single-hospital system based in Lanham, Md., under a proposed merger, according to state documents reviewed by the Capital Gazette.