The incredible growth of the senior care market in the 1990s, particularly of the larger chains, was made possible by two financing sources: the public equity market and health care real estate investment trusts (REITs). While finance companies, banks and government...
Containing spiraling drug costs has been on everyone’s mind, from Congress to the everyday consumer. While one wag quipped that Ashcroft’s office may be studying the movie “Canadian Bacon” in preparation for a raid on the Great White North to staunch the...
During the mid-1990s many in the assisted living sector wanted to write off the skilled nursing market as an anachronism, a dinosaur that had served its purpose but was about to become extinct as a new climate, and philosophy, began to take shape in a much-criticized...
August belongs to the Medical Devices sector. Not only did it rack up the highest deal volume with 13 transactions out of 59, but it outscored all other sectors in terms of dollars committed to fund those deals. Based on prices revealed to date, a total of $6.2 billon...
While every other segment of the health care services market has seen a below-average amount of merger and acquisition activity so far in 2003, the senior care market is experiencing a level of deal activity not seen since 1998. In the second quarter of this year,...
M&A activity in health care remained steady for the second quarter of 2003. A total of 222 transactions were announced in 13 sectors of the health care industry. This represents a 2% decline from the 227 deals in Q1:03, and a 7% decline from the 238 deals in the...