1. Iron River, Mich.-based Northstar Health System formed a partnership with Green Bay, Wis.-based Bellin Health.
2. The University of Kansas Cancer Center and U.S. Oncology’s Kansas City Cancer Center announced plans to merge to create an outpatient cancer care organization.
3. Loyola University Chicago signed a letter of intent to sell its medical center complex to the Catholic hospital operator Trinity Health in Novi, Mich.
4. Cincinnati’s UC Health will acquire the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati’s Jewish Hospital Medical Campus in Avondale.
5. SunLink Health Systems leased Clanton, Ala.-based Chilton Medical Center to a subsidiary of Carraway Medical Systems as of March 1.
6. Catholic Health East plans to sell its Saint Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta, which also includes Saint Joseph’s Translational Research Institute, Medical Group, Service Corp. and East Georgia Hospital.
7. St. Joseph’s Community Health Services in Hillsboro, Wis., entered into a formal affiliation with La Crosse, Wis.-based Gundersen Lutheran Health System.
8. Surgical Care Affiliates announced it has entered into a joint market development agreement with West Orange, N.J.-based Saint Barnabas Health Care System.
9. The merger between Bemidji, Minn.’s North Country Health Services and Sioux Falls, S.D.’s Sanford Health is official.
10. Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital and St. Joseph’s Hospital, both in Parkersburg, W.Va., officially merged and joined Fairmont, W.Va.-based West Virginia United Health System.
11. Sherman Hospital in Elgin, Ill., rejected a merger offer from Crystal Lake, Ill.-based Centegra Health System.
12. Franklin, Ind.-based Johnson Memorial Hospital and Indianapolis-based Community Health Network agreed to pursue a closer clinical partnership.
13. The board of directors of Community General Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., accepted an acquisition proposal from Syracuse, N.Y.-based Upstate Medical University.
14. Paradigm Physician Partners made an offer to buy Hoboken (N.J.) University Medical Center for $52 million and invest an additional $25 million in operational upgrades.
15. A Circuit Court judge in Florida overturned the merger of Bert Fish Medical Center in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., with Adventist Health System’s Florida Hospital in Orlando.
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