The health care merger and acquisition market has been unusually steady during the first three quarters of 2003. The total number of announced transactions has ranged between 225 and 230 in each of the past three quarters, and the total dollar amount of deals with...
Results are in for the health care M&A market during the third quarter of 2003. Reflecting a gradual improvement in the overall economy during the most recent quarter, both deal volume and the amount spent to finance this acquisition activity showed an increase...
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...