Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton is being renamed Boston Medical Center - South (BMC South) and St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton will become Boston Medical Center - Brighton (BMC Brighton). Boston Medical Center Health System assumed operations of both hospitals last October after St. Elizabeth's was seized by the state of Massachusetts using eminent domain. Both hospitals were owned by Steward Health Care, which filed for bankruptcy in May 2024.
OHSU and Legacy Health have mutually agreed to walk away from a deal that would have combined the two health systems. Last August, OHSU agreed to acquire Legacy's eight hospitals and $3 billion in assets, with a promise to spend $1 billion on upgrades to Legacy's facilities. "After careful consideration of the evolving operating environment, the organizations have determined that the best way to meet the needs of the communities they serve is to move forward as individual organizations," an OHSU spokesperson wrote in an email. The statement does not detail why the acquisition was called off. Leaders at Legacy and OHSU declined a request for an interview about the decision.
Democratic attorneys general across 19 states and Washington, DC, have filed a lawsuit against HHS, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other federal health officials, alleging that the agency's restructuring endangers the American public after several public health programs were dismantled and thousands of federal health workers fired in the process.
Two Maryland-based hospitals have merged. Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin and TidalHealth of Salisbury signed a definitive agreement on Thursday, bringing the two health systems together under TidalHealth.