Transactions & Valuation Issues

The following healthcare mergers, acquisitions, partnerships and general transactions took place or were announced during the past week.

St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare will consider terminating its 30-year operating lease with Columbia, Mo.-based Boone Hospital Center early if the hospital successfully finalizes its partnership with University of Missouri Health Care, also in Columbia, according to the Columbia Missourian.

Dameron Hospital, a 200-plus-bed hospital in Stockton, Calif., partnered with Stanford (Calif.) Health Care Oct. 5 to improve its cardiothoracic surgery program, according to Recordnet.com.

  Three months after Honolulu-based Maui Health System, a subsidiary of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, assumed management of three community hospitals and associated clinics from the state of Hawaii, hospital officials and physicians maintain mixed opinions regarding the success of…

Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health has reached an affiliation agreement with Marysville, Calif.-based Rideout Health.

The Oktibbeha County board of supervisors revealed Thursday Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care and Tupelo-based North Mississippi Health Services are among the frontrunners to purchase or lease Starkville, Miss.-based OCH Regional Medical Center, according to the Daily Journal.

The following were among the most-viewed transactions and valuations stories published by Becker's Hospital Review the week of Oct. 6. 

University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the University of Illinois at Chicago will team up to conduct clinical trials to improve outcomes for patients with life-threatening emergencies, according to Chicago Tonight.

Cleveland-based KeyBanc Capital Markets completed its acquisition of New York City-based investment banking and public finance firm Cain Brothers & Co. Oct. 2, according to Nasdaq.

California State University, Northridge named Dignity Health-Northridge (Calif.) Hospital Medical Center the university's first-ever "Community Health Partner of the CSUN Matadors" Oct. 4. The partnership will go into effect immediately.