Transactions & Valuation Issues

Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health and Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System have begun discussions of a potential merger.

Tulsa, Okla.-based Saint Francis Health System and Allen, Texas-based Nobis Rehabilitation Partners signed a joint venture agreement for the recently opened Tulsa Rehabilitation Hospital.

Houston-based Texas Children's Hospital has partnered with Austin, Texas-based Beansprout Pediatrics to expand patient care in the Austin area. 

Colorado's UCHealth and Parkview Health System have signed a letter of intent to combine, with Parkview joining the 12-hospital UCHealth system in 2023. 

New Orleans-based LCMC Health intends to acquire three Tulane University hospitals from Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare.

Valley Medical Group partnered with New York City-based Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital to open a new general and specialty pediatrics practice in Montvale, N.J.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health has signed an agreement to acquire two Connecticut health systems from Prospect Medical Holdings.

Alhambra, Calif.-based Apollo Medical Holdings plans to acquire the entire portfolio of fully diluted capitalization and assets relating to nine primary care clinics in Las Vegas, Houston, and Fort Worth, Texas, which operate as Valley Oaks Medical Group.

Olathe (Kan.) Health, a two-hospital system, has signed a letter of intent to join The University of Kansas Health System. 

Morgantown-based West Virginia University Medicine partnered with social care network Findhelp to address social determinants of health such as transportation, food, and shelter, according to an Oct. 4 report from WV News.