The Connecticut Department of Public Health Office of Health Care Access approved Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare's certificate of need application to affiliate with Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, a 109-bed facility in Torrington, Conn., Nov. 16.
Transactions & Valuation Issues
Warner Robins, Ga.-based Houston Healthcare and Macon, Ga.-based Navicent Health are reportedly in talks to align their organizations, according to The Telegraph.
The Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and Morgantown, W.Va.-based Mon Health Medical Center formed a partnership Nov. 15 to provide enhanced delivery and pediatric medicine services for families with newborns in West Virginia.
Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health revealed plans Nov. 15 to merge two of its Michigan health systems into a single, 10-hospital organization.
Portland, Ore.-based OHSU and Adventist Health Portland finalized an agreement to integrate the organizations' clinical activities and services Nov. 15.
Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health — the parent company of Allegheny Health Network, an eight-hospital system in Pittsburgh — formed an affiliation agreement with Warren (Pa.) General Hospital, an 89-bed community hospital, Nov. 15.
Lafayette, La.-based LHC Group agreed to enter into an all-stock merger-of-equals transaction with Louisville, Ky.-based Almost Family Nov. 16, following a definitive merger agreement unanimously approved by the boards of directors for both organizations.
For the past few years, Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based Adventist Health System faced an all-too-familiar problem: Recently discharged patients in need of additional care or services would seek out competing healthcare facilities to obtain the services Adventist couldn't provide. The health…
Option Care Enterprises, Inc., the nation’s largest independent provider of home and alternate treatment site infusion services, has partnered with The ALS Association to offer education, support and enhance the quality of life for individuals affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…
The Massachusetts Department of Health will hold two public hearings next month regarding the proposed merger of five Massachusetts hospitals and health systems, The Salem News reports.