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June 14, 2024   
Health Law Weekly

FTC Fails to Obtain Preliminary Injunction to Block Novant’s Acquisition of Two CHS Hospitals

This Feature Article is brought to you by AHLA's Antitrust Practice Group.
  • June 14, 2024
  • Katharine O’Connor , McDermott Will & Emery
  • Noah Feldman Greene , McDermott Will & Emery LLP
  • Phoebe Flint , McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Hospital corridor

On June 5, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina denied the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) request for a preliminary injunction that would have paused Novant Health Inc.’s (Novant) proposed acquisition of Community Health Systems, Inc.’s (CHS) Lake Norman Regional Medical Center (LNR) and Davis Regional Psychiatric Hospital (Davis). The district court’s decision enabled the parties to close the transaction on or after June 11, 2024.

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