CHS Enters Deal To Buy Sharon Regional Health System

Circle Connections: Mergers & Acquisitions Tennessee-based Community Health Systems (CHS) moved one step closer Wednesday to further consolidating regional health care and shoring up its grip on market share in Northeast Ohio and just across the state line in Mercer County. CHS, which purchased Forum Health in August 2010 and assumed ownership of more than 800 hospital beds in the Mahoning Valley when it acquired Northside Medical Center, Trumbull Memorial Hospital and Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital, has executed a letter of intent to purchase the assets of Sharon Regional Health System in a deal that could be completed by the . . .