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Transactions & Valuation Issues

Nashville, Tenn.-based Essent Healthcare is in negotiations with the 115-bed Brown County Regional Healthcare board to buy Brown County General Hospital in Georgetown, Ohio, according to a report by the Business Courier of Cincinnati.

More hospitals and health systems in the United States are willing to consider merging with other facilities or buying physician groups as a result of the recession, healthcare reform efforts and "thawing" credit markets, according to a report in the…

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Normal, Ill.-based BroMenn Healthcare and Oakbrook, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care have filed a change of ownership exemption application with the state of Illinois to merge, according to a report by The Pantagraph.

Clinton Memorial Hospital in Wilmington, Ohio, is looking into a possible affiliation with a regional health system to help the hospital restructure its debt, according to a report in the Wilmington News Journal.

The Surgery Center of New Mexico in Clovis, N.M., will merge with Plains Regional Medical Center, also in Colvis, according to a report by the Quay County Sun.

Bobby Sarnevesht, a businessman from Los Gatos, Calif., is finalizing a proposal for a $40 million physician-owned hospital to be built in Campbell, Calif., according to a report in the Silicon Valley Mercury News.

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