About Dylan Sammut
Dylan joined Irving Levin in October 2018 as a Research and Editorial Associate and is responsible for reporting on mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare sector. He graduated from Alfred University in May 2014 with a degree in English and Political Science. He currently lives in Bridgeport, CT with his fiancé and his overweight cat, Kimba, and in his free time he plays video games, reads, writes, and hikes on the weekends all year around.
by Dylan Sammut | Dec 11, 2024 4:28 pm | Hospitals
After months of negotiations, Blount Memorial Hospital has finally joined Prisma Health’s network of hospitals. Blount Memorial Hospital is a 304-bed nonprofit community hospital serving Blount County and East Tennessee. According to cost report data, the... Read More »
by Dylan Sammut | Dec 3, 2024 8:30 am | Healthcare Market Updates
The healthcare M&A market slowed significantly in November, according to preliminary data in our LevinPro HC database. You could blame the holiday season or a few other extraneous events, but volume plunged by 31% compared with activity in October, dropping from... Read More »
by Dylan Sammut | Nov 12, 2024 9:20 am | Hospitals
Health systems have kept busy in 2024, building up their hospital portfolio and expanding into the post-acute care space. Through October 31, they have announced 113 deals, which puts activity on pace to break the 2023 total of 117 deals. The uptick in... Read More »
by Dylan Sammut | Sep 27, 2024 3:36 pm | Healthcare Market Updates
Despite all the headwinds straining the healthcare M&A market, deal activity stabilized in the third quarter of 2024, according to preliminary results in the LevinPro HC database. With 489 deals on the books in the last week of September, we saw only a marginal... Read More »
by Dylan Sammut | Aug 13, 2024 8:43 am | Hospitals
For the past six weeks, players in the health system and hospital M&A market seem to be running a marathon, with 12 deals so far on the books. There has been a flurry of activity, ranging from divestments to larger system mergers. Many of these deals are... Read More »