Dallas-based Broadlane, a leading cost-management company for healthcare providers, has acquired Healthcare Performance Partners, a consulting group offering lean healthcare and Six Sigma consulting services, training and tools, according to a Broadlane news release.
Transactions & Valuation Issues
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers has approved a plan for Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System to manage two Exempla Healthcare System hospitals, according to a report by the Denver Business Journal.
Christ Hospital in Cincinnati has acquired Redbank Surgery Center, which is currently a joint venture between the hospital and local physicians, according to a report by the Business Courier of Cincinnati.
A proposed merger between two Providence, R.I.-based hospital systems, Lifespan and Care New England, is still under review by regulators five months after it was submitted, according to a report in the Warwick Beacon.
CHRISTUS Health is planning to build a full-service hospital in Alvin, Texas, according to a report by Fox News Houston.
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Weight Loss Surgical Center is planning to build a specialty hospital in Overland Park, Kan., called Blue Valley Hospital, according to a report in the Kansas City Business Journal.
Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. is planning to sell its Baptist Memorial Hospital-Lauderdale in Ripley, Tenn., to Kansas City, Mo.-based HMC/CAH Consolidated, according to a report by the Commercial Appeal.
Supporters of a new Oklahoma heart hospital are asking Congress to make their facility an exception to the proposed ban on new specialty hospitals in the federal health reform legislation, according to a report by KSBI-TV.
Carilion Clinic said its acquisition of 10-physician Roanoke (Va.) Orthopaedic Center will not violate a consent order it signed with the Federal Trade Commission that limits its merger activity, according to a report by the Roanoke Times.
St. Joseph's Hospital in Elmira, N.Y., and Guthrie Healthcare System in Sayre, Pa., have called off plans for a possible merger that would have brought St. Joseph's into the Guthrie system, according to a report by the Star-Gazette.