Transactions & Valuation Issues

Phoenix-based Banner Health has purchased 32 urgent care facilities in Arizona from retail chain Urgent Care Extra.

King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services has acquired Desert View Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed hospital in Pahrump, Nev.

Porter Medical Center in Middlebury, Vt., has chosen Burlington-based University of Vermont Health Network as a potential partner.

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

The Georgia Attorney General has ruled in favor of a partnership agreement between Athens (Ga.) Regional Health System and Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare.

Vorhees, N.J.-based Kennedy Health will merge with Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health pending regulatory approval.

National medical group MEDNAX has acquired Maternal Fetal Medicine of Southwest Florida, a private physician group practice based in Fort Myers.

Petaluma Health Care District will not complete the process of naming a hospital operator for the county's only acute care hospital, Petaluma (Calif.) Valley Hospital, according to the Argus Courier.

Carlsbad, Calif.-based medical device company Next Life Medical has acquired Carlsbad, Calif.-based Emergent Respiratory, according to JEMS.

The city of Blackwell, Okla., entered into an agreement with Salt Lake City-based Alliance Health, Oklahoma City-based Mercy Health and the Blackwell Hospital Trust Authority. The agreement will allow Mercy Health to act as a consultant and manage the city's…