Transactions & Valuation Issues

Pompton Plains, N.J.-based Chilton Health Network has signed a definitive merger agreement with Atlantic Health System, based in Morristown, N.J., according to a report by The Record.

Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health Care System announced it has completed a merger with Caldwell Memorial Hospital based in Lenoir, N.C., effective May 1.

For-profit HCA Midwest Health System, a Kansas City, Mo.-based subsidiary of Hospital Corporation of America, will purchase Carondelet Health, a two-hospital system also based in Kansas City.

For-profit hospital systems in the United States continue to look to the merger and acquisition market to spend their cash because the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act encourages — directly and indirectly — consolidation in the industry, according to…

One of the largest mergers in the hospital and health system industry is now complete, as Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health and Newtown Square, Pa.-based Catholic Health East closed their deal to create one of the country's biggest Catholic health systems.

Sierra Vista (Ariz.) Regional Health Center announced it completed a long-term operation lease agreement, effective today, with Brentwood, Tenn.-based RegionalCare Hospital Partners to operate a new 100-bed regional hospital.

The mayor of North Kansas City, Mo., and a majority of the city council members wrote to Gov. Jay Nixon in support of a bill that would require mutual agreement between the hospital, the city and the public before North…

Windber (Pa.) Medical Center leaders issued a letter to employees this week announcing they were looking for a "strategic relationship" with another health system, according to a report by the Tribune-Democrat.

Oklahoma State University Medical Center in Tulsa and the Oklahoma City branch of Mercy, based in Chesterfield, Mo., are reportedly in talks to partner, according to a Tulsa World report.

David Parmer is what he and many others would call an experienced U.S. hospital system executive. He has been with Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas for 22 years, and he currently serves as CEO of health system's Beaumont campus, a…