Whenever legislators turn their attention to health care and attempt to reform or even just tweak the laws, providers, payors and everybody in between start to get nervous and put their hands on their wallets. Our readers will recall the ambiguous results of the...
When we did our first-ever audio conference last September that took a look at where the senior care investment market was headed during 2003, we revealed that the average price per bed in the skilled nursing facility market had dropped significantly in the first six...
Hostile bids in the Pharmaceutical sector are rarer than hen’s teeth. So rare in fact that only one comes readily to mind, Pfizer’s (NYSE: PFE) $90 billion acquisition of Warner-Lambert in mid-2000. And even then, what began as a hostile bid in late 1999 turned...
Most of the dollars invested by CNL in 2003 were related to only four deals with a combined purchase price of just over $700 million. Two of the four transactions involved former Marriott Senior Living (MSL) properties now managed by Sunrise Senior Living (NYSE: SRZ);...
The senior care market is emerging from its worst financial period ever, with stock prices soaring, new capital coming into the market, occupancy rates increasing and acquisition prices, at least in some corners of the market, reaching heights that just 18 months ago...
Merger and acquisition activity in the health care industry remained relatively steady during the fourth quarter of 2003. With a total of 221 deals announced, Q4:03 registered just a 4% dip against the 230 transactions announced in the previous quarter (Q3:03). Deal...