Nashville-based dialysis provider is acquired by Plano, Texas-based U.S. Renal Care in late 2015. Following the acquisition, U.S. Renal Care will operate nearly 300 outpatient clinics, 142 home dialysis programs and 26 acute-care hospital contracts in the U.S. The company is headquartered in Texas, but retains its Nashville presence.
Nov
2
Digital Reasoning Acquires Shareable, Launches Health Care Business
Nashville-based technology provider Shareable is purchased by Digital Reasoning, a technology company that provides cognitive computing tools to the intelligence, financial and health care industries. Hal Andrews, former CEO of Shareable, is named president of Digital Reasoning’s health care business. The company was formerly known as Shareable Ink.
Nov
2
Acadia Purchases TrustPoint Hospital, Expands Local Presence
Behavioral health care giant Acadia Healthcare purchases TrustPoint Hospital in Murfreesboro, a 129-bed hospital with 322 employees and annual revenue of $25 million. The hospital is the region’s 20th largest hospital.
RegionalCare Hospital Partners and Capella Healthcare, both privately-owned premier providers of health care services, successfully merge to form a combined company that will do business under the name RCCH HealthCare Partners. The new combined company has 16 regional health systems in 12 states with more than 13,000 employees, 2,000 affiliated physicians and $1.7 billion in…
Nov
2
Healthways Rebrands as Tivity Health
The company formerly known as Healthways is now called Tivity Health. The company sold a key division — as well its name and brand — to Atlanta-based digital health company Sharecare. The remaining entity, led by Donato Tramuto, used the moniker Healthways as it rebranded itself into a company focused on SilverSneakers, a program for…
Health care information technology firm NextGxDx Inc. announces that it is now Concert Genetics. The change is intended to reflect the company’s mission of providing data-driven tools to connect, unify and simplify the world of genetic testing for stakeholders across the health care system.
In a $792 million deal, the Mike Doyle-led Surgery Partners acquires Nashville-based surgical centers operator Symbion. The combined company will own and operate roughly 100 ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals with physician partners across 27 states. The merger moves the company closer (in size and revenue) to its consolidated competitors, such as AmSurg Corp.,…
Nov
2
Community Health Systems acquires Health Management Associates (HMA), Inc.
Rural hospital company Community Health Systems, Inc. completes the acquisition of Health Management Associates, Inc. for $3.6 billion. With this deal, CHS becomes the largest for-profit hospital chain in the country, and one of the biggest health care companies overall. HMA adds approximately 70 hospitals to Wayne Smith’s organization, giving CHS a total of 206…
