Transactions & Valuation Issues

Number of Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions From 1998-2007

Here are statistics on the number of announced hospital mergers and acquisitions (deals) from 1998-2007, according to an American Hospital Association and Avalere analysis of data from The Health Care Acquisition Report by Irving Levin Associates.

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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Year	Number of deals	Number of hospitals
1998	139	287
1999	110	175
2000	86	132
2001	83	118
2002	58	101
2003	38	56
2004	59	236
2005	51	88
2006	57	249
2007	58	149

Source: AHA and Avalere’s Trendwatch Chartbook 2009.

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