New Britain-based The Hospital of Central Connecticut's proposed deal to sell three remote patient service centers to Madison, N.J.-based Quest Diagnostics drew the ire of several hospital employees, the Hartford Courant reports.
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Port Townsend, Wash.-based Jefferson Healthcare officials said the health system is backing off its proposed acquisition of Discovery Behavioral Health, also in Port Townsend, and is instead pursuing a "tight affiliation," according to the ptleader.com.
Cleveland Clinic reportedly signed a management consulting agreement with an unnamed organization to build a hospital in Shanghai July 1, according to Crain's Cleveland Business.
A Boston-based Partners HealthCare executive said the health system plans to hold off on finalizing its proposed acquisition of Providence, R.I.-based Care New England Health System until CNE's finances improve, WPRI-12 News reports.
The State of Georgia Office of the Attorney General approved the proposed sale of Oconee Regional Medical Center in Milledgeville, Ga., to a subsidiary of Macon, Ga.-based Navicent Health Aug. 21, according to The Union-Recorder.
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Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards postponed the potential termination of the state's partnership with Shreveport, La.-based BRF, which operates two safety-net hospitals in Shreveport and Monroe, La., according to The Times.
Mednax, a Sunrise, Fla.-based physician-led provider of healthcare solutions, acquired Radiology Associates of South Florida in Miami.
On Tuesday, St. Louis-based Ascension, the nation's largest nonprofit Catholic health system, declared plans to acquire Chicago-based Presence Health, Illinois' largest Catholic health system.
Charleston, W.Va.-based HHA Inc., the parent company of Charleston, W.Va.-based Highland Hospital, approved a definitive agreement to sell various facilities to Brentwood, Tenn.-based Meridian Behavioral Health Systems Aug. 11, according to the Charleston Gazette-Mail.
St. Louis-based BJC Healthcare sold Mineral Area Regional Medical Center, a shuttered 127-bed facility in Farmington, Mo., for $13 in May, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.