Transactions & Valuation Issues

Valdosta, Ga.-based South Georgia Medical Center, a 335-bed facility, is acquiring 45-bed Smith Northview Hospital, also in Valdosta, according to an SGMC news release.

Here are 12 hospital transactions that occurred in the previous week, beginning with the most recent.

Bennington, Vt.-based Southwestern Vermont Health Care and Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health plan to affiliate, according to a joint news release by the health systems.

Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health Care has rejected Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed Health's unsolicited offer to purchase Rex Healthcare, also in Raleigh, for $750 million, according to a Charlotte Observer report.

Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed Health and Hospitals has submitted an offer to purchase Rex Healthcare, also based in Raleigh, from Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health Care, according to a WakeMed news release

Brown County General Hospital in Georgetown, Ohio, is moving closer to a sale to Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Southwest Healthcare Services, according to a Ledger Independent report.

Steward Health Care System, the new for-profit system that bought Caritas Christi Health Care in Boston last year, is no longer actively working to buy Jackson Health System in Miami, according to a report by the Boston Globe.  

The board of commissioners of Coupeville, Wash.-based Whidbey General Hospital has unanimously rejected a proposal by Franklin, Tenn.-based Capella Healthcare to buy the hospital, according to a Whidbey News-Times report.

Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. plans to file a letter of intent to build a $65 million comprehensive cancer treatment facility, according to a Commercial Appeal report.

Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System's three hospitals have changed their names to reflect the system's breadth of services across multiple campuses, according to an Atlantic Health System news release.