Carbondale, IL-based Southern Illinois Hospital Services is asking for dismissal of an antitrust lawsuit seeking to prevent it from acquiring Harrisburg Medical Center, Becker’s reports.
Southern Illinois Hospital Services announced its intent in June to buy Harrisburg Medical Center. If the two organizations close the deal, it would create a four-hospital system serving a 16-county region. Harrisburg Medical Center would join Southern Illinois Healthcare’s three hospitals.
The state review board approved their request for a change of ownership in late July.
Marion HealthCare, a multispecialty surgery center, sued both Illinois hospital networks in July to stop the deal, arguing the combination of the two organizations “would substantially reduce competition in an already highly concentrated market, would harm the public and would cause antitrust injury” to the surgery center. Read more.
