New Hampshire officials have expanded a public-private partnership between the state department of health and Dartmouth Health for the operation of Hampstead Hospital and Residential Treatment Facility. 

Tampa General Hospital will operate Lakeside Medical Center under a five-year agreement, a Tampa General spokesperson confirmed to Becker's.

The ​​​​​Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board on Dec. 17 unanimously approved Ascension's plan to sell nine hospitals — more than half of its hospitals in the state — and several post-acute facilities to Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare. 

Rolla, Mo.-based Phelps Health and Salem Memorial Hospital District have completed the due diligence process, where leadership teams from both organizations collected and shared regulatory and financial information about SMH, and are working towards a transaction in which the two organizations would combine.

Secaucus, N.J.-based Hudson Regional Hospital received a certificate of need approval from the New Jersey State Department of Health's State health planning board to operate Jersey City, N.J.-based CarePoint Health's Bayonne (N.J.) Medical Center.

Salisbury, Md.-based TidalHealth and Berlin, Md.-based Atlantic General Hospital have signed a letter of intent to combine their organizations.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health and Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay, Ore., have signed a letter of intent to partner.

Publicly traded for-profit health systems have sold dozens of hospitals in 2024 and academic health systems are among those acquiring the facilities. 

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems has signed a definitive agreement to sell Lake Norman Regional Medical Center in Mooresville, N.C., to Duke University Health System. 

The Chippewa Valley Health Cooperative in Eau Claire, Wis., has signed a letter of intent with Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System to purchase and reopen Chippewa Falls, Wis.-based St. Joseph's Hospital to provide healthcare services while it builds a new hospital.

The Federal Trade Commission has ramped up antitrust enforcement under the Biden administration, leading to the abandonment of several high-profile hospital transactions.

In September, St. Luke's Hospital in Columbus, N.C., and Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth were preparing for a significant milestone: AdventHealth's planned management of St. Luke's on Oct. 1. But Hurricane Helene loomed, threatening both the timeline and the communities it would affect.

As the calendar flipped to the final month of 2024, several health systems closed M&A deals that were first announced earlier in the year: 

Flint, Mich.-based Insight Health System officially acquired Coldwater (Mich.) Regional Hospital from Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica on Dec. 1.

Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health has officially acquired Maryville, Tenn.-based Blount Memorial Hospital, a 304-bed, nonprofit community hospital.

Risant Health, a nonprofit formed by Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, acquired Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health, a five-hospital system, effective Dec. 1. 

Northwest Urgent Care has wrapped the acquisition of specific urgent care centers in Arizona that are owned and run by Oakland, Calif.-based Carbon Health. 

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems' planned $120 million sale of Commonwealth Health to a newly formed nonprofit organization has collapsed. 

Terre Haute, Ind.-based Union Health has withdrawn its certificate of public advantage agreement for its proposed merger with Terre Haute Regional Hospital, a 278-bed facility operated by Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare. 

Grand Blanc, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care has acquired Park Medical Centers, which operates 10 clinics in the Detroit metro area.