February 2019

Mission Health and HCA Healthcare Combine in $1.5B Strategic Merger

United States - North Carolina | United States - Tennessee

Mission Health, previously North Carolina’s sixth-largest health system, and Nashville-based HCA Healthcare (HCA) completed a $1.5 billion merger. Our firm represented Mission Health in the transaction, with an integrated team of more than 85 lawyers from 21 specialty practices assisting with a host of legal, licensure and regulatory challenges.

Hospital consolidation is both a cause and effect of the ever-changing, value-based health care landscape. In this merger, Mission Health became a new operating division of HCA, running approximately 1,800 care sites in 21 states and the U.K.

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