Mergers & Acquisitions
In a just-released report on publicly traded healthcare companies, Goldman named Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Clovis Oncology, Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Sage Therapeutics, Evolent Health and Brookdale Senior Living as companies that make attractive targets to buyers.
Community Health Systems moved one step closer to its planned spin-off of Quorum Health Corp. last week. The for-profit healthcare giant filed its Form 10 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the transaction that would create Quorum as a separate for-profit company.
Managed care company Molina Healthcare said it will pay $200 million for the remaining stakes in two subsidiaries of The Providence Service Corp.
Acadia Healthcare Co. this week said it wrapped up three acquisitions of behavioral health centers in the United Kingdom. With the deal closing, Acadia adds six inpatient facilities in the overseas country, run by Partnerships in Care, the company's U.K. subsidiary.
Care Capital Properties, a real estate investment trust, on Thursday said it has acquired eight skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living facility in Shreveport, Louisiana for $190 million.
Healthcare analytics platform provider MedeAnalytics on Tuesday said it has sold itself to Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm, for an undisclosed sum.
Prime Healthcare on Tuesday wrapped up its $17.5 million purchase of the St. Joseph Mercy Port Huron hospital and several other facilities from Trinity Health.
While hospital merger and acquisition deals in the second quarter of 2015 slid when it came to volume, the total dollar amount of the deals jumped on a few major takeovers, according to new research by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Dialysis center operator DaVita HealthCare Partners on Monday said it would buy competitor Renal Ventures for $415 million, adding another 36 centers in six states.
Brooklyln's famed Maimonides Medical Center will partner with the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, the healthcare providers announced this week, in a move that will integrate their services but keep them running as independent systems.