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As we head into the holidays, we want to thank you for being a valued reader of our Weekly Hospital Real Estate Briefing. We hope you are able to enjoy time with friends and family in the days ahead. To provide you with a few timely topics to consider over the holidays, we’ve compiled a…Read More

On December 18, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued two proposed rules aimed at limiting provision of gender-affirming care to minors (each a “Proposed Rule” and, collectively, the “Proposed Rules”). The first rule would add a new Condition of Participation (“CoP”), prohibiting a hospital from performing “sex-rejecting procedures” on minors, in order…Read More

On December 11, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) extended the due date indefinitely to complete and submit the new Form CMS-855A Skilled Nursing Facility  (“SNF”) Disclosures Attachment for every SNF. In its Medicare Learning Network, 2025-12-11-MLNC, CMS formally announced that enrolled SNFs should continue collecting data on ownership, managerial, and related party information…Read More

Fitch Ratings’ 2026 outlook for the nonprofit hospital sector was “neutral,” and forecasts median operating margins between 1-2%, while noting largely healthy volume trends and strong balance sheets. It expects a roughly equal number of ratings downgrades and upgrades among its portfolio, and noted that the industry is still investing in patient tower and brick-and-mortar…Read More

Health care continues to drive private equity (“PE”) activity, creating opportunities for investors and traditional health care providers. Transactions in the health care space are especially complicated, layering health care regulatory and reimbursement considerations on top of a complex securities, antitrust, privacy and security framework. Hall Render’s PE team of attorneys and advisors leverage the…Read More

In 2025, we worked on a number of significant land transactions where hospitals acquired land for new hospital campus projects. From our perspective, it seemed like an increase in land transactions when compared to previous years. Here are 10 observations based on our work on these transactions: Resource Race – Hospital systems were aggressive in…Read More

Health care continues to drive private equity (“PE”) activity, creating opportunities for investors and traditional health care providers. Transactions in the health care space are especially complicated, layering health care regulatory and reimbursement considerations on top of a complex securities, antitrust, privacy and security framework. Hall Render’s PE team of attorneys and advisors leverage the…Read More