Transactions & Valuation Issues

Joe Lupica, chairman of Newpoint Healthcare Advisors, likens financially strained community hospitals looking to thrive in a rapidly shifting healthcare industry to lobsters facing the threat of boiling water.

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Seattle-based UW Medicine and Capital Medical Center in Olympia, Wash., have announced a strategic partnership agreement, effective April 1.

The New York Department of Health's Public Health and Health Planning Council has granted preliminary approval to a merger agreement between Rochester (N.Y.) General Health System and Unity Health System, also based in Rochester, according to a Rochester Business Journal…

Hospital transaction activity is expected to continue at a high rate in 2014, spurred by various market and regulatory trends, according to a report from global consulting firm PwC.

Carthage (N.Y.) Area Hospital and Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown, N.Y., have announced plans to pursue an affiliation.

A Louisville, Ky.-based hospital management company is seeking to take over management of Dr. John Warner Hospital in Clinton, Ill., according to a report from The Herald & Review.

Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT, a real estate investment trust based in Kansas City, Mo., has purchased the Cypress Pointe Surgical Hospital property in Hammond, La., for about $25 million.

A potential transaction between El Centro (Calif.) Regional Medical Center and San Diego-based Scripps Health might also include Pioneers Memorial Hospital in Brawley, Calif., according to an Imperial Valley Press report.

Healthcare industry leaders discussed quality measures and price transparency during the second and final day of a Federal Trade Commission workshop focused on healthcare competition, according to an AHA News report.