Transactions & Valuation Issues

Catholic Medical Center, a 330-bed regional health system in Manchester, N.H., is pursuing a deal to join HCA Healthcare. 

Bowling Green, Ky.-based Med Center Health has acquired Logan Memorial Hospital in Russellville, Ky., making it the health system's seventh hospital. 

Morehead, Ky.-based St. Claire HealthCare has officially joined Lexington-based UK HealthCare, part of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. 

Cooper University Health Care on July 1 completed the acquisition of  Cape May, N.J.-based Cape Regional Health System.

CommonSpirit Health is in the early stages of a potential sale of its critical access hospital in Devils Lake, N.D., to Altru Health System.

UnitedHealth Group's Optum has scrapped its plan to acquire Dallas-based Steward Health Care's physician group, Stewardship Health, The Boston Globe reported June 27.

The final days of the first half of 2024 saw several hospital merger and acquisition deals move forward.

Minneapolis-based Allina Health signed an agreement to sell some lab assets to Quest Diagnostics for improved access and affordability of services.

A definitive agreement has been signed for New Brunswick, N.J.-based Saint Peter's Healthcare System to join Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System.

The University of Alabama System's board of trustees unanimously approved an agreement to acquire Ascension St. Vincent's Health System.