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73 Hospital and health system transactions Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spectrum Health completed its merger with St. Jo- seph, Mich.-based Lakeland Health Oct. 1. West Reading, Pa.-based Tower Health signed an asset purchase agreement to acquire Douglassville, Pa.-based Premier Urgent Care's 19 urgent care centers. The boards of Cleveland Clinic and Vero Beach, Fla.-based Indian River Medical Center voted to approve a series of agree- ments allowing IRMC to integrate into the Cleveland Clinic, the organizations an- nounced Oct. 3. Cleveland Clinic signed a definitive agreement to integrate Stuart, Fla.-based Martin Health System into the system, the organizations announced Oct. 2. Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems completed the sale of Alliance- Health Deaconess, a 238-bed hospital in Oklahoma City, Oct. 1. Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare signed a de- finitive agreement to acquire St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn., the organizations announced Oct. 1. Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare plans to merge Tampa (Fla.) Community Hospital with Memorial Hospital of Tam- pa Nov. 9. Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health completed the sale of McKenzie (Tenn.) Regional Hospital to Memphis, Tenn.- based Baptist Memorial Health Care. The boards of Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health and Houston-based Me- morial Hermann Health System signed a letter of intent to merge, the systems an- nounced Oct. 1. Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health, which includes 93 hospitals in 22 states, formed a new regional health system called Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic. Columbia, S.C.-based Palmetto Health and Greenville (S.C.) Health System will unite under a single brand and logo in ear- ly 2019. Jefferson Health and Einstein Health- care Network inked a definitive agree- ment to merge, the Philadelphia-based organizations announced Sept. 14. Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center acquired High Point (N.C.) Regional Health, a 351-bed hospital, from Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health Care Sept. 1. Birmingham, Ala.-based Medical Prop- erties Trust sold North Cypress Medical Center, a 139-bed hospital in Houston, to Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare for $148 million. Marriottsville, Md.-based Bon Secours Health System and Cincinnati-based Mer- cy Health finalized their merger Sept. 5, establishing one of the largest Catholic healthcare systems in the nation. Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and Crystal Lake, Ill.-based Centegra Health System closed their merger deal. St. Louis-based Ascension completed the sale of Lourdes Health Network in Pasco, Wash., to Brentwood, Tenn.-based RCCH HealthCare Partners, which is owned by private equity firm Apollo Global Manage- ment. Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health for $1.5 billion, the systems an- nounced Aug. 31. After months of negotiations, New Orle- ans-based Ochsner Health System and LSU New Orleans finalized a deal to as- sume operations at two of the state's safe- ty-net hospitals. Sanford Health and Evangelical Luther- an Good Samaritan Society, both based in Sioux Falls, S.D., merged their organiza- tions earlier than anticipated after receiv- ing quick approval from regulators. Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare an- nounced on Aug. 20 it completed the sale of London-based Aspen Healthcare to NMC Healthcare, which is based in the United Arab Emirates. The Georgia Attorney General's Office ap- proved the integration of Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare and Decatur, Ga.- based DeKalb Medical. Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health and Belle Mead, N.J.-based behav- ioral health provider Carrier Clinic signed a definitive agreement to merge. Hospital and health system executive moves Beverly Capasso, RN, president and CEO of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Bro- ward Health, resigned. Butler (Pa.) Health System selected Mi- chael Deitschmann to serve as CFO, ef- fective Oct. 1. Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley, Calif., appointed Brian Ev- ans, MD, president and CEO, effective Dec. 2. Corpus Christi, Texas-based Driscoll Health System selected Eric Hamon to serve as permanent president and CEO. Charles Lucore, MD, president and CEO of HSHS St. John's Hospital in Spring- field, Ill., resigned Oct. 31. John Rudd, president and CEO of Itha- ca, N.Y.-based Cayuga Health System and Cayuga Medical Center, is retiring in fall 2019. Slidell (La.) Memorial Hospital named Kerry Tirman CEO, effective Nov. 12. UnityPoint Health-Cedar Rapids (Iowa) President and CEO Theodore Townsend, Jr., will retire Dec. 31. Burlington, Mass.-based Wellforce se- lected Michael Wagner, MD, to serve as interim CEO, beginning Jan. 1, 2019. David Zechman, president and CEO of McLaren Northern Michigan in Petoskey, will retire at the end of 2018. Plumas District Hospital in Quincy, Calif., hired JoDee Tittle to serve as CEO, ef- fective in November. Evanston, Ill.-based Northshore Univer- sity HealthSystem appointed Doug Wel- day CFO Oct. 15. Edinburg-based South Texas Health Sys- tem appointed Lance Ames permanent CEO of South Texas Health System Ed- inburg and South Texas Health System Children's in Edinburg.