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Sanford Health, UnityPoint Health Call Off $11 Billion Merger

November 14, 2019

Sanford Health and UnityPoint Health nixed their proposed merger that would have formed an $11 billion, 76-hospital system, the organizations said late Tuesday.

It is hard to imagine spending a year and a half on a transaction and having it fall apart, said Robert Creighton, managing partner at Farrell Fritz.

“It makes me think that the preliminary work maybe was not as thorough,” said Creighton, adding that they may have never come to an understanding of what the vision was.

The deal may have been related to a culture clash, mismatched or unmet expectations when it comes to estimated savings benchmarks, their relationships with physicians or other labor-related issues, he said.

“These are incredibly complex (and costly) transactions,” Creighton said. “You have to get all the pieces to fit, and it is not surprising that some deals will fail.”

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