Transactions & Valuation Issues

New Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy has weighed in on the deal that would allow Boston-based Partners HealthCare to complete its acquisitions of South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Mass., and Hallmark Health System in Melrose, Mass.

As the multiyear contract between Charlotte, (N.C.)-based Carolinas HealthCare System and UnitedHealthcare nears its end, the two sides have yet to reach a deal, according to The Charlotte Observer.

The following healthcare mergers, acquisitions and general transactions took place or were announced within the past week, beginning with the most recent.

Augusta-based Georgia Regents Health System has begun preliminary partnership discussions with University Hospital in Augusta, according to The Augusta Chronicle.

Troy, Mo.-based Lincoln County Medical Center is set to join Chesterfield, Mo.-Mercy Health, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems has announced it is moving forward with a deal to purchase Metro Health Hospital in Wyoming, Mich. — a deal that has been in the works since 2013.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris now has until Feb. 20 to decide whether Daughters of Charity Health System — a six-hospital network based in Los Altos Hills, Calif. — should be sold to Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services, according to…

Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services has completed its acquisition of 177-bed North Vista Hospital in North Las Vegas, Nev.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare has accepted Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy's offer to once again begin negotiating the terms of a transaction that involves the for-profit hospital operator acquiring five hospitals in the state, according to an NBC Connecticut report.

Nonprofit Penn State Health, which was formed by the merger of Penn State Milton S. Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center and PinnacleHealth System in Harrisburg, Pa., has received approval from the Penn State Board of Trustees to acquire St. Joseph Regional…