St. Louis-based Missouri Baptist Medical Center and Mechanicsburg, Pa.-based Select Medical teamed up to open a 38-bed long-term acute care hospital within the medical center, according to the St. Louis Business Journal.
Transactions & Valuation Issues
Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreens launched its Center for Health & Wellbeing Research, a website featuring more than 50 research studies conducted in tandem with institutions like Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine and the University of Chicago Medicine during the past six years.
Oklahoma City-based OU Medicine will assume management and ownership of all hospitals affiliated with the university this fall, according to NewsOK.
Kenosha, Wis.-based United Hospital System formalized its affiliation with Milwaukee-based Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin July 31, according to the Kenosha News.
Cape Girardeau, Mo.-based SoutheastHEALTH partnered with the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis' pathology and immunology department, according to the Southeast Missourian.
The following healthcare mergers, acquisitions, partnerships and general transactions took place or were announced during the past week.
Pittsburgh-based UPMC finalized a definitive agreement July 28 to acquire PinnacleHealth, a three-hospital system in Harrisburg, Pa., according to philly.com.
The following were among the most-viewed transactions and valuations stories published by Becker's Hospital Review the week of Aug. 7.
San Francisco-based Dignity Health wants to provide non-emergency ambulance services in the market of one of its hospitals — Phoenix-based St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center — which has ignited a contract war with local ambulance suppliers, according to a…
CHALLENGE It had been two years since Capital Health, a two-hospital health system, had a vice president of quality. Like many other companies today, the system decided to use a matrix model to manage the function, with several different leaders…