Three Ways to Add Hospice Services to Your Senior Facility Email Editor Adding hospice care to the services offered in a senior facility is an additional benefit for residents — one that means they don’t have to move to receive end-of-life care. Moving is one of the...
Private Equity Firms Continue To Find Good Deals Email Editor Financial entities, such as REITS and private equity firms, continue to make their mark in the health care M&A market. During April, financial concerns were involved in 11 transactions, either as...
Email Editor April’s M&A market produced the largest biotechnology deal ever seen. Britain’s AstraZeneca plc (NYSE: AZN) announced that it is buying MedImmune (NASDAQ: MEDI) for $58.00 per share, or $15.2 billion. In AZN’s sights are MEDI’s vaccine business and...
Email Editor Last year, the Dutch chemical conglomerate Akzo Nobel, N.V. (AS: AKZO) announced its intention to divest Organon BioSciences, its pharmaceutical division, either through an outright sale or by floating the unit in an IPO. It has found a willing buyer in...
Ten Deals Announced Worth A Combined $7.5 Billion Email Editor The Pharmaceutical sector generated 10 deals in February, worth a combined total of $7.5 billion. Two of the 10 were billion-dollar deals. The largest involves the $4.3 billion combination of Tanabe...
Triad Hospitals Privatized In $6.4 Billion Deal On Monday, March 19, Community Health Systems (NYSE: CYH) announced that it was taking advantage of the go-shop provision in the $6.4 billion deal to privatize Triad Hospitals (NYSE: TRH), discussed below, and would...