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July 25, 2024   

A Tale of Two Strategies: Remain Independent or Join a System

This Bulletin is brought to you by AHLA’s Business Law and Governance Practice Group.
  • July 25, 2024
  • Jeff Hoffman , ECG
  • Ed Moran , ECG

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the trend of independent hospitals and small community health systems joining larger systems via full-asset mergers has slowed when compared to the last ten years overall. While the number of announced transactions for 2023 (55) is up from 2022’s recent historic low (52), it still trails the nearly 100 transactions announced each year from 2012 to 2019.

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