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Learn why healthcare strategic partnerships falter and how to improve outcomes with credible business cases, aligned incentives, durable structures, rigorous due diligence, and simpler, effective agreements from real-world deal insights.

This week’s graphic highlights data from Kaufman Hall’s recently published 2025 Hospital and Health System M&A in Review on the dynamics in health system merger and acquisition (M&A) activity.

Explore how hospitals and health systems are navigating persistent financial headwinds through strategic mergers, partnerships and realignment. The 2025 M&A Review, offers expert insights on evolving deal structures, capital constraints and the growing role of scale and specialization.

This year’s most popular insight illustrated in infographic form.

In healthcare today, organizations can face opportunities across geographies and sectors, each with their own unique benefits and risks. But like a fruit tree at harvest time, these opportunities can be time sensitive.

Integration is about more than structure or ownership; it is a process that develops connective tissue among an organization’s disparate parts to unlock the full potential of an integrated system.

Following a modest uptick in hospital and health system M&A activity in Q2 2025, with eight announced transactions, Q3 continued to trend upwards, with 15 transactions announced—an activity level more in line with historical observations.

Government shutdown in its second week, healthcare organizations sue to stop H1-B visa fees, Qualtrics announces Press Ganey Forsta acquisition

A better credit outlook for hospitals, AI takes center stage, staffing troubles at VA hospitals

This episode features Kris Blohm and Courtney Midanek, Managing Directors and Co-Practice Leads for Mergers and Acquisitions at Kaufman Hall, as they explore how health systems can use a holistic, data-driven approach to assess operations, optimize service lines, and drive long-term success.

Forward-looking healthcare systems aren’t waiting for conditions to stabilize. They are moving deliberately toward strategic partnerships that position them for long-term relevance and resilience.

With an estimated $1 trillion in healthcare-related spending reductions, the One Big Beautiful Bill could significantly disrupt the U.S. healthcare system. Flourishing in the face of uncertainty will require focus on four imperatives: margin transformation, care delivery realignment, structural resilience and technological enablement.