Community Health Systems is selling a Texas hospital to California-based Prime Healthcare Services, the second deal between the two companies this month. CHS took over Dallas Regional Medical Center in Mesquite, an eastern suburb of Dallas, through its acquisition of Health Management Associates in January. The sale of the 202-bed hospital is expected to close in the first quarter of 2015. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Dallas Regional is the third hospital Franklin-based CHS has divested in six weeks. Earlier this month, Prime Healthcare also agreed to buy Riverview Medical Center in Gadsden, Alabama, from CHS, as well as a Nevada hospital from Iasis Healthcare.
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