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ResMed (RMD), the world’s leading tech-driven medical device company and innovator in sleep-disordered breathing and respiratory care, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Brightree®, a leader in…

MedAssets completed a 17 year round trip voyage from Private Equity ownership, to a publicly-traded company rolling up acquisitions, and back to Private Equity ownership with its $2.8 billion sale,…

SpectraScience Inc (San Diego, CA) acquired the assets of Oncoscope Inc (Durham, NC). Oncoscope developed a proprietary optical imaging system to provide immediate, minimally-invasive detection of pre-cancerous epithelial tissues using…

WellCare Health Plans Inc (Tampa, FL) acquired Advicare Corp (Greenville, SC), a Medicaid managed-care company. It is WellCare’s first acquisition in almost two years. The deal, which is expected to…

Medical device maker Stryker Corp struck a deal to buy Physio-Control International Inc from private equity firm Bain Capital for $1.28 billion in cash in order to expand its emergency…

PSA Healthcare (PSA), a portfolio company of J.H. Whitney Capital Partners and leading provider of pediatric home care for children with medical complexities, recently announced that it has acquired Care…

Accretive Health Inc (Chicago, IL) completed the transaction announced on December 8, 2015 with Ascension (St. Louis, MO) and Ascension and TowerBrook Capital Partners (New York, NY). As part of…

National Seating & Mobility has expanded in eastern Pennsylvania with the acquisition of the complex rehab division of Webb Medical Systems. Short-term, NSM will continue operating out of the existing…

Pamplona Capital Management (Pamplona) is pleased to announce it has completed the sale of MedAssets’ Spend and Clinical Resource Management (SCM) segment to Vizient, Inc., the largest member-owned health care…

Mölnlycke Health Care, a world-leading provider of high-quality healthcare solutions, announced today the acquisition of Sundance Solutions, a leader in developing innovative solutions for the safe positioning and turning of…

Nautic Partners, LLC announced today that it has completed the sale of All Metro Health Care Services, Inc. (All Metro) to private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP). The terms…

AmerisourceBergen (NYSE:ABC) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase PharMEDium Healthcare Holdings, Inc., the privately held leading national provider of outsourced compounded sterile preparations (CSPs) to…

Silver Oak Services Partners, LLC, a leading lower-middle market private equity firm focused exclusively on business, healthcare and consumer services companies, announced today that it has completed the sale of…

Wafra Partners LLC is acquiring medical equipment repair company Intermed for an undisclosed amount. Intermed sells and repairs x-ray and ultrasound machines. The company, headquartered in Alachua, Florida, also provides…

Kreisers, Inc., headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; MMS – A Medical Supply Company, headquartered in Earth City, Missouri and Seneca Medical, headquartered in Tiffin, Ohio jointly announced they have…

naviHealth Inc (Brentwood, TN), a Cardinal Health (Dublin, OH) company, acquired RightCare Solutions Inc (Philadelphia, PA), a healthcare decision support software service provider specializing in hospital discharge planning software and…

Wafra Partners announced the acquisition of Interactivation Health Networks, LLC, d/b/a The Wellness Network. The Wellness Network is the third platform investment by Wafra Private Equity Fund V, L.P. Wafra…

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (Deerfield, IL) agreed to sell 56 in-store clinics in the Chicago region to Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, IL). Walgreen said the move was intended to…

Fairview Health Services (Minneapolis, MN) acquired PreferredOne Corp (Minneapolis, MN) for an undisclosed amount. The health system previously held a fifty percent share in the insurer, but has bought the…

Audax Group has acquired Toronto-based Lifemark Health and Viewpoint Medical Assessments, provider of physiotherapy, rehabilitation and medical assessments, from Centric Health Corp. (TSE: CHH) Terms of the deal were not…

MedAssets Inc’s (Alpharetta, GA) stockholders approved the previously disclosed agreement and plan of merger with Pamplona Capital Management LLP (New York, NY) at its special meeting of stockholders. Approximately 99.8…

Henry Schein Inc (Melville, NY) completed its acquisition of 80.1 percent interest in Vetstreet Inc (Yardley, PA), a software as a service (SaaS) provider of marketing solutions and health information…

Patient Home Monitoring Executes Definitive Purchase Agreement to Acquire Patient-Aids Inc. Under the terms of the definitive purchase agreement, Patient Home Monitoring will acquire all of the stock of Patient…

Prospect Medical Holdings (Santa Ana, CA) signed a definitive agreement to acquire Crozer-Keystone Health System (Springfield, PA). The deal, which includes Crozer-Chester Medical Center (Upland, PA), Delaware County Memorial Hospital…

MiMedx Group Inc (Marietta, GA) signed a definitive agreement to acquire Stability Inc (dba Stability Biologics) (Nashville, TN). Stability is privately held and was founded in 2010. The company is…

Shire Plc (London, UK) agreed to acquire Baxalta (Bannockburn, IL) for $32 billion in a cash and stock offer. Shire will pay about $45 per share in Baxalta, which was…

Teleflex Incorporated (Wayne, PA) acquired Nostix LLC (Boulder, CO), a privately held developer of tip-confirmation systems that are used to increase the accuracy of vascular access device placement. Currently, Nostix’s…

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (Franklin Lakes, NJ) announced that Fresenius Kabi USA (Lake Zurich, IL) acquired the BD Rx (Franklin Lakes, NJ) business, which includes a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant…

Nunn’s Home Medical Equipment has acquired Rothschild’s Home Health Care of Syracuse, N.Y., allowing the company to open its first additional location. Nunn’s has been operating out of Rome, serving…

VHA-UHC Alliance NewCo Inc, the recently combined company of VHA Inc and UHC, announced that its new name will be Vizient Inc (Irving, TX). The combined organization, which includes Novation…

Patient Home Monitoring announced that it executed a final, binding purchase agreement to acquire Sleep Management, a company operating in 19 states and headquartered in Louisiana. The business had annualized…

MedAssets (Alpharetta, GA) entered into a definitive agreement with Pamplona Capital Management (New York, NY), a private equity firm, through which Pamplona will acquire MedAssets for a total enterprise value…

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (Deerfield, IL) sold its Hawaii location along with the nearby Heald College Building (Honolulu, HI) for a total of $73.5 million to Salem Partners (Los Angeles,…

The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society (the Society) recently announced the purchase of Heritage Healthcare Services, Inc., by Good Samaritan Society HCBS-Heritage, LLC, an affiliate of the Society. Heritage is…

Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX), announced its acquisition of the interventional radiology business of CeloNova Biosciences, a global developer and manufacturer of endovascular and interventional cardiology technologies. The price was…

Meridian Bioscience, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio (NASDAQ: VIVO) today announced that it has made a minority investment in Oasis Diagnostics® Corporation (“Oasis”), with the right to acquire Oasis in the future.…

GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) announced the acquisition of The Camden Group, one of the nation’s leading population health & strategic advisory firms. GE Healthcare Camden Group will act as the U.S.…

PharMerica Corporation (NYSE:PMC), a diversified national provider of institutional and specialty pharmacy services, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Luker Pharmacy Management (“Luker”). Terms of the transaction…

Medline Industries, Inc. and ICU Medical jointly purchased Excelsior Medical, a leading manufacturer of pre-filled saline and heparin flush syringes, syringe pumps and pump systems. Excelsior also develops and manufactures…

Pamplona Capital Management (Pamplona) is pleased to announce it has agreed to acquire MedAssets (NASDAQ:MDAS), a leading healthcare performance improvement company that serves four out of every five hospitals in…

VCA Inc. (NASDAQ: WOOF), a leading national healthcare company in the United States and Canada, today announced that Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSIC), the world’s largest provider of health care…

Envision Healthcare Holdings, Inc. (Envision) (NYSE: EVHC) announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Rural/Metro Corporation (Rural/Metro) through Envision’s medical transportation segment, American Medical Response (AMR). Rural/Metro’s…

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) and Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Walgreens Boots Alliance will acquire all…

H.I.G. Growth Partners (“H.I.G.”), the dedicated growth capital investment affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, a leading global private equity investment firm, is pleased to announce that its portfolio company, Community Intervention…

Caymus Equity Partners LLC (“Caymus Equity”) announced today the completion of its sixth equity investment. A group formed by Caymus Equity, including Caymus Equity, NewSpring Mezzanine Capital II, L.P. (“NewSpring”),…

Zoetis Inc. (NYSE:ZTS) today that it has completed the purchase of PHARMAQ, the global leader in vaccines and innovation for health products in aquaculture, for a price of $765 million…

Definitive Healthcare (Natick, MA), acquired Major Accounts Exchange (The MAX) and US Lifeline (Carlisle, PA) from Medical Distribution Solutions Inc (MDSI) (Lawrenceville, GA). The complementary nature of these products means…

Medline Industries Inc (Mundelein, IL) and ICU Medical (San Clemente, CA) completed their joint purchase of Excelsior Medical (Neptune, NJ), a manufacturer of pre-filled saline and heparin flush syringes, syringe…

Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the outreach laboratory service business of Clinical…

Senior Care Centers of America, the largest operator of adult day health service centers in the United States, announced the acquisition of the adult day health services center of ElderWatch…

MOTION PT Holdings, Inc. (“MOTION”), a leading provider of physical therapy and occupational therapy services in New York, announced today it has acquired Bradley & Monson Physical Therapy (“Bradley &…