Mergers news and information

Mount Sinai Hospital CEO Dr. Kenneth Davis reportedly sees no antitrust bumps on his organization's path to absorbing Continuum Health Partners into what would be New York City's largest healthcare provider.
FULL STORY »

Two big hospital players in New York reached an agreement to combine operations, creating a system that would be the city's largest.
FULL STORY »

Neonatologists registered the biggest increase in pay among the 23 specialties tracked in the 20th annual Modern Healthcare Physician Compensation Survey.
FULL STORY »

Healthcare deals accelerated in June, a month that saw more than 90 transactions across all sectors and the proposed $4.3 billion acquisition of Vanguard Health Systems by Tenet Healthcare Corp., according to Modern Healthcare's M&A Watch.
FULL STORY »

Parma (Ohio) Community General Hospital could became part of Cleveland's University Hospitals health system by the end of 2013. Officials of both organizations announced that they have signed a letter of intent to explore adding the Parma hospital to the University Hospitals system.
FULL STORY »

Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., has expanded its medical education offerings through its July 1 merger with the Newark-based University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
FULL STORY »

New York Downtown Hospital—now renamed New York-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital—has merged with New York-Presbyterian Hospital to become its sixth member, effective July 1.
FULL STORY »

WINCHESTER, Mass.—Winchester Hospital signed a preliminary agreement to join a larger suburban Boston competitor, Burlington, Mass.-based Lahey Health. The board of the 200-bed hospital had been seeking a potential partner since March 2012. Under a letter of intent with Lahey Health,...
FULL STORY »

After 16 years as head of River’s Edge Hospital and Clinic in St. Peter, Minn., Colleen Spike has become a hero to some for fiercely defending its independence as giant medical centers have bought up similar facilities across the country.
FULL STORY »

Winchester (Mass.) Hospital signed a preliminary agreement to join a larger suburban Boston competitor, Burlington, Mass.-based Lahey Health.
FULL STORY »