Wuesthoff Health System: Wuesthoff Health System to be acquired by Boston firm

Wuesthoff Health System will be bought by Boston-based Steward Health Care LLC, according to Florida Today. Wuesthoff owns Wuesthoff Medical Center Rockledge and Wuesthoff Medical Center-Melbourne and Sebastian River Medical Center, as well as other assets. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Wuesthoff is owned by Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, which last year announced plans to sell 10 underperforming hospitals out of its 160-hospital portfolio in the U.S. In a 2016 first-quarter...