Mergers & Acquisitions

Huron Consulting Group announced Tuesday it has acquired MyRounding, a firm specializing in digital health solutions to standardize, automate and track nurse and staff rounding activity.

LifePoint Health has wrapped up its acquisition of Providence Hospitals, the company announced Tuesday in a joint statement with the Sisters of Charity System, which originally founded Providence.

Jefferson Health will merge with Kennedy Health, the healthcare systems announced on Friday, in a move that will add three New Jersey hospitals to the growing Philadelphia-based provider.

Peconic Bay Medical Center, and its parent system PBMC Health, became full members of the newly-rebranded Northwell Health's system when their CEO's signed a partnership agreement making Peconic Bay Medical Center its 21st hospital, Northwell announced earlier this week.

Aria Health System and Jefferson Health on Tuesday entered into a binding agreement to merge, a transaction expected to be completed this spring.

Real estate investment trust National Health Investors has acquired a 98-unit independent living community in Chehalis, Washington for $9.8 million, the company announced Tuesday.

Analytics firm Sentry Data Systems on Tuesday said it will buy Nashville-based Agilum Healthcare Intelligence, which focuses on similar financial analytics, for an undisclosed sum.

Anthem has proposed a $52.5 billion takeover of Cigna; Aetna pitched a $38.5 billion merger with Humana. If approved, the combined companies and the nation's largest insurer, UnitedHealth Group, would become the big three.

ASP Global has acquired InHome Medical Solutions, a Jacksonville, Florida-based distributor of wholesale medical products serving physicians and home health/hospice providers, for an undisclosed amount, ASP announced Tuesday.

Ireland-based Shire and Illinois-based Baxalta announced Monday they will be joining forces, merging in a deal estimated to be worth about $32 billion.