Capital Finance
Universal Hospital Services, a provider of medical equipment management and service solutions, has completed its acquisition of the Emergent Group and its wholly owned subsidiary, PRI Medical Technologies, a provider of mobile medical lasers and surgical equipment.
MedAssets, based in Atlanta, has announced that The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha will deploy the company's strategic sourcing and group purchasing, medical device and clinical consulting services for physician preference items, as well as the company's pharmacy consulting services.
Merger and acquisition activity in the health care industry's service sectors burgeoned in 2010 as the impact of the credit crunch and Great Recession on the economy began to fade says the seventeenth edition of Irving Levin Associates' "The Health Care Services Acquisition Report."
Nautic Partners LLC, a Providence-based private equity firm, has acquired Reliant Hospital Partners, LLC, a Dallas-based operator of seven rehabilitation facilities.
Health Care REIT, Inc., a real estate investment trust based in Toledo, Ohio, has completed the formation of an $890 million partnership with Benchmark Senior Living, which was previously announced on February 15, 2011.
Rural/Metro Corporation, a national provider of ambulance and private fire protection services in 20 states, has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by the global private equity firm Warburg Pincus in an all-cash transaction.
Affiliated Computer Services of Dallas, a subsidiary of Xerox, has announced plans to acquire CredenceHealth, a Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of software that captures and analyzes patient data to assist healthcare providers and health plans in improving quality of care and compliance with meaningful use regulations.
Insight Health Services, a provider of fixed-site and mobile diagnostic imaging services, emerged from Chapter 11 restructuring this week.
Avanti Hospitals has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Coast Plaza Hospital in Norwalk, Calif., which would be the company's fourth hospital in Los Angeles County.
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