Healthcare DIVE December 19, 2025
The providers said they can best serve their communities by operating independently. The deal would have created a health system with more than $6 billion in annual revenue.
Dive Brief:
- ChristianaCare and Virtua Health have called off talks to combine after mutually deciding a merger was no longer in their best interests, the regional health systems said Thursday.
- The hospital operators determined “they can best fulfill their missions to serve their communities by continuing to operate independently,” Wilmington, Delaware-based ChristianaCare and Marlton, New Jersey-based Virtua said in a press release.
- ChristianaCare and Virtua first said they were exploring a merger in July. The deal would have created a health system with more than $6 billion in annual revenue...







