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Transactions & Valuation Issues

Ventas, a healthcare real estate investment trust, sold Samaritan Hospital, located in Lexington, Ky., to the University of Kentucky for $35 million, according to a Ventas news release.

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King's Daughters Hospital and Scott & White Healthcare, both located in Temple, Texas, have entered into a nondisclosure agreement in a first step towards a potential merger, according to a King's Daughters news release.

The Loudoun County (Va.) Board of Supervisors reaffirmed an earlier vote denying HCA's application for land use for its Broadlands Regional Medical Center, according to a report in the Loudoun Times-Mirror. 

Brownsville (Pa.) Tri-County Hospital has closed after struggling to overcome financial challenges and is being sued by Presidential Healthcare Credit Corp., a Texas-based lender, for $1.52 million in owed funds, according to The Valley Independent.

JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, Fla., owned by the Hospital Corp. of America, and Delray Medical Center in Delray Beach, Fla., owned by Tenet Healthcare Corp., have renewed their effort to stop Bethesda Memorial Hospital from building a new facility…

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