“Growth” in 2026 no longer means adding more beds. It means shedding the wrong ones. Some of the country’s largest nonprofit health systems are divesting hospitals at the same moment for-profits are reshaping their portfolios — and the CEOs driving those decisions are converging on the same logic: Focus where the system can do the most good, and let go of the rest. The executives framing these deals are expressing similar priorities: focusing on where the system “fits” best rather than where it can grow largest.
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Source: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-transactions-and-valuation/why-ceos-are-prioritizing-market-potential-over-scale/