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Transactions & Valuation Issues

Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT, a real estate investment trust based in Tampa, Fla., has purchased Vibra New Bedford (Mass.) Hospital for $26.1 million from Vibra Healthcare in Mechanicsburg, Pa., according to a Tampa Bay Business Journal report.

Pittsburgh-based health insurer Highmark offered West Penn Allegheny Health System $125 million as an incentive for the health system to enter a structured bankruptcy, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report.

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The number of merger and acquisition transactions in the healthcare industry declined by nearly 10 percent in the third quarter of 2012 compared with the third quarter of 2011, representing a 35 percent drop in dollar volume compared with the…

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