No rival suitor has emerged to compete with Brentwood, TN-based LifePoint Hospitals' pending deal to buy bankrupt Sumner Regional Health Systems, giving LifePoint a clear shot at winning approval of its purchase at a bankruptcy court hearing, The Tennessean reports. But the deal still faces an objection from Sumner County, TN, which claims the county government has a right to the money that LifePoint will pay for Sumner Regional Medical Center and three other medical campuses run by the health system.
