Not-for-profit healthcare

The U.S. Supreme Court's upholding Obamacare removes one potential headache for a healthcare sector still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic's wounds

Ivan Samstein will take the top fiscal post at University of Chicago Medical Center. The university will conduct a national search for his replacement.

Daniel Isacksen Jr. replaces the retiring interim chief financial officer, Cynthia Clemence, for the Livonia, Michigan-based hospital system.

The two systems began negotiations in January to transfer 14 CommonSpirit hospitals in Minnesota and North Dakota to Essentia.

Northwest Community became the second independent hospital to affiliate with the Evanston, Ill.-based NorthShore Health system over the past year.

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.