Transactions & Valuation Issues

Chicago-based CommonSpirit has teamed up with Siemens Healthineers to acquire Block Imaging, a Michigan-based supplier of imaging parts and services.

A bill that could transform the legal landscape for healthcare mergers and acquisitions in North Carolina was pulled from committee and will therefore not likely be discussed further in the state legislature's current session.

A bill that could stall the proposed merger between Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health and Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services is headed to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's desk — but the health systems are not letting it deter them. 

Arcata, Calif.-based Mad River Community Hospital, a 78-bed facility, is set to be acquired by management company Southwest Healthcare Services, the hospital said May 22.

On Jan. 1, Butler (Pa.) Health System and Greensburg, Pa.-based Excela Health became one. Approaching five months post-merger, the new health system has declared a new name: Independence Health System. 

In this episode Scott Becker talks with John Meindl and Taryn Nasr, Directors in VMG Health’s Valuation & Transaction Advisory Division. The three leaders discuss the recent macro and micro trends for Healthcare PE Dealmaking and the outlook for dealmaking…

Iowa City-based University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics wants to engage consultants to help the system assess the "fair market valuation" of a "wide range of health care settings and assets," according to a May 17 The Gazette report.

HCA Healthcare is set to purchase 41 urgent care centers in Texas from FastMed, the Nashville, Tenn.-based health system said May 18. 

A little more than three months after announcing intent to combine, Flagler Health+ and UF Health say they have reached a definitive agreement to merge. 

Oakland, Calif.-based healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente made headlines April 26 when it agreed to acquire Geisinger Health to form a new nonprofit health system, Risant Health.