Not-for-profit healthcare

The Illinois-based health system, with a balance sheet helped by its insurance arm, will sell $600 million of AA-minus rated debt over the next month.

Ohio's Summa Health is selling $310 million of taxable corporate CUSIP debt Wednesday.

The COVID-19 pandemic is both reinforcing traditional strategies that drive consolidation and steering new trends

With some light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences fund growth with $139 million of revenue bonds.

The nonprofit hospital sector gets a fiscal shot in the arm from federal actions but margins are likely to remain depressed this year.

The proposed sale has dual benefits: Trinity gets to shed the facility outside of bankruptcy and the facility would remain open quieting local critics.

BJC Health System is selling $805 million of mostly refunding debt with its ratings and balance sheet intact as its manages COVID-19 pandemic wounds.

The facility and a majority of bondholders agreed to a restructuring that aims to ease repayment problems not solved by the previous bankruptcy in 2016.

S&P says Trinity's efforts to shed the fiscally struggling Mercy poses benefits and risks but the hospital is a small piece of the national not-for-profit's overall portfolio.

The Michigan-based nonprofit hospital chain expects a restructuring charge from the Mercy Hospital bankruptcy but no impact to its municipal bond debt.