The following healthcare mergers, acquisitions and general partnerships took place or were announced in the past week.
1. Sale of shuttered Texas hospital finalized
Bowie (Texas) Memorial Hospital, which closed last November, has a new owner.
2. Lurie Children's strikes pediatric partnership with new Centegra hospital
Crystal Lake, Ill.-based Centegra Health System is teaming up with Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital to staff pediatric hospitalists around the clock at its new hospital in Huntley, Ill.
3. Methodist Health completes takeover of bankrupt Texas hospital
A judge signed off on Dallas-based Methodist Health's purchase of bankrupt Forest Park Medical Center's campus in Southlake, Texas.
4. Lenoir Memorial Hospital decides to partner with UNC Health Care
Kinston, N.C.-based Lenoir Memorial Hospital agreed to create a management services agreement with Chapel Hill-based UNC Health Care.
5. Memorial Hermann Health System reaches deal to purchase Northeast Hospital: 3 things to know
Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System reached a deal to purchase Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital in Humble, Texas, from the Northeast Hospital Authority Board of Trustees.
6. MD Anderson, UTHSC exploring ways to expand cancer care in Texas
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston are exploring ways to expand cancer care in San Antonio.
7. Jennie Stuart Medical Center, Vanderbilt ink affiliation
Jennie Stuart Medical Center in Hopkinsville, Ky., is now an affiliated partner of Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Networks and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
8. Navicent Health to manage Monroe County Hospital
The Hospital Authority of Monroe County, doing business as Monroe County Hospital in Forsyth, Ga., has formed a partnership with Macon, Ga.-based Navicent Health that will allow Navicent to assume management control over MCH.
9. Beacon Health first in Indiana to join Mayo network
South Bend, Ind.-based Beacon Health System is officially the first hospital system in the state to team up with the Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Care Network.
10. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to open affiliate clinic in Oklahoma
The Children's Hospital at St. Francis in Tulsa, Okla., will house the nation's eighth affiliate clinic of Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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