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Transactions & Valuation Issues

Phoenix-based Banner Health announced it will add Arizona Regional Medical Center in Apache Junction, Ariz., to its network beginning May 15, if approved by Banner's board of directors.

After several weeks of negotiations, the board of trustees for Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala, Fla., has chosen Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates to lease and operate the publically owned, 421-bed hospital.

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Passing one of its final bureaucratic hurdles in a year-and-a-half pursuit, the deal for New London, Conn.-based Lawrence + Memorial Hospital to acquire The Westerly (R.I.) Hospital has earned the Rhode Island attorney general's approval, according to a report by…

Four Pennsylvania state senators sent a letter to Gov. Tom Corbett, arguing the pending merger between Pittsburgh-based health insurer Highmark and West Penn Allegheny Health System could hurt small local hospitals if safeguards are not put in place, according to…

Tacoma, Wash.-based Franciscan Health System has finalized its acquisition of Burien, Wash.-based Highline Medical Center, which operates a 154-bed acute-care hospital, a specialty center and more than 20 clinics.

The Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors approved plans to lease Interim LSU Public Hospital, better known as University Hospital, in New Orleans and University Medical Center in Lafayette, La., to private operators as part of Gov. Bobby Jindal's initiative…

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