Transactions & Valuation Issues

Nashville, Tenn.-based Cogent Healthcare and Canton, Ohio-based Hospitalists Management Group have announced they will be merging to form the largest private hospitalist company in the country with nearly 1,000 affiliated hospitalists and extenders, according to a news release from both…

Scott Becker, JD, CPA, a partner with McGuireWoods in its Chicago office and publisher of Becker's Hospital Review, will be featured in a live chat on hospital mergers and acquisitions hosted by the Chicago Tribune taking place on Thursday April…

Pardee Hospital in Hendersonville, N.C., is discussing a potential affiliation with the University of North Carolina Health System in Chapel Hill, according to an Asheville Citizen-Times report. County-owned Pardee is not for sale, as rumors suggested last fall, but discussions…

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is speaking out against a proposed teaching hospital in Mid-City, La., saying the project is too large and depends too heavily on uncertain funding, according to a WWLTV report.

Baylor Health Care System and Select Medical Corporation have officially launched a joint venture that commenced operations on April 1, according to a health system news release.

Noyes Memorial Hospital in Dansville, N.Y., has been in discussions about a potential partnership with Rochester (N.Y.) General Hospital and Strong Memorial Hospital, also in Rochester, according to an Evening Tribune report.

Rappahannock General Hospital in Kilmarnock, Va., and Bon Secours Virginia Health System in Richmond and Hampton Roads, Va., have signed a letter of intent to discuss a possible affiliation, according to a Bon Secours release.

Hospital Authority trustees for Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.-based Hutcheson Medical Center voted to enter a partnership with Erlanger Health System in Chattanooga, Tenn., according to a Chattanooga Times Free Press report.

LHC Group, a national provider of home health and hospice, has entered into a joint venture with Helen Keller Hospital in Muscle Shoals, Ala., according to an LHC news release.

San Francisco-based Catholic Healthcare West and Phoenix Children’s Hospital have signed a definitive agreement under which Phoenix Children’s will receive pediatric cases from CHW’s St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, according to a St. Joseph’s news release. Substantially all of…