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Byline: Vince Galloro The two public hearings on the proposed sale of the Colorado Health Foundation's 40% interest in the HealthOne joint venture to majority partner HCA included new demands [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Faraaz Yousuf 34, chief operating officer, Good Samaritan Hospital, San Jose, Calif. Faraaz Yousuf has managed in his short career to gain experience across the country, from [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Usually, when a hospital company is said to take a market-based approach, the reference is geographical. For HCA, the reference is to the types of securities the [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Before he became president and CEO of LifePoint Hospitals in 2006, Bill Carpenter led its acquisition activities as chief development officer. So Carpenter, now chairman and CEO [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Duke University Health System and LifePoint Hospitals might be the first academic medical center and investor-owned hospital company to form a joint venture to acquire hospitals, but [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro The passage of a healthcare reform law after decades of trying was like an earthquake erupting on a long-dormant, always-feared fault line. Could one of the quake's [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Tenet Healthcare Corp. may be resisting the advances of Community Health Systems for now, but analysts believe that, ultimately, Community will win the prize. Community approached Tenet [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro In the competition over physicians in North Carolina's Research Triangle region, one competitor has decided that if you can't beat 'em, ask 'em how they're doing it. [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro HCA, Nashville, expects to make a $2 billion distribution to its shareholders in the fourth quarter, according to a company news release. The company also announced that [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Washington, D.C., has been and remains the epicenter of the healthcare reform law. Washington, Mo., however, may offer proof that the law can bring about major delivery [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro After a couple of years slowed by recession, investor-owned hospital companies have put the pedal to the metal on acquisitions in 2010. How long till they run [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro On the surface, supporters and critics of healthcare reform could cite the performance of hospital stocks this year in their arguments. It just depends on when the [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro 39, CEO, Longview (Texas) Regional Medical Center. Since the ninth grade, just about every step Jim Kendrick has taken led him on the path to being a [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro A two-hospital acquisition by Iasis Healthcare announced on Sept. 10 capped a busy week of healthcare mergers and acquisitions. Franklin, Tenn.-based Iasis Healthcare said it is acquiring [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro MedCath Corp. could be gone within a year, liquidated through a series of sales because the company's strategy has taken hits from regulators, market pressures and physician [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Whoever expected a bidding war to erupt over Youngstown, Ohio? The investor-owned interest in Youngstown's Forum Health, along with the much larger deals announced this year in [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Each time a wave of hospital dealmaking begins to rise up, dealmakers wonder whether its crest will approach that of the Columbia Healthcare Corp.-fueled wave of the [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Emory Healthcare and HCA have decided to stop pretending. Tax-exempt Emory and investor-owned HCA said they will end their joint venture operating two hospitals in the Atlanta [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Sisters of Mercy Health System could mark its ownership of Mercy Health Plans with the Clinton healthcare reform plan at the start and the Patient Protection and [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Heading into 2009, it was easy to understand predictions for uncompensated care that ranged from dire to apocalyptic. The credit crunch that began in 2007 was wreaking [...]

Byline: Joe Carlson and Vince Galloro Like caregivers watching a patient's heartbeat return on an electrocardiogram, many executives at healthcare systems could breathe easier in late 2009 after seeing their [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro True to form, even as Universal Health Services embarks on the biggest deal in the company's history, it's working with a safety net. The combination of Psychiatric [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro When the International Olympic Committee chose Rio de Janeiro over Chicago and two other finalists for the 2016 Summer Olympics last October, architecture preservationists in Chicago were [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro The Federation of American Hospitals posted a loss in 2009, giving it a loss for the second year in a row, according to its annual tax filing [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Hospital systems that have employed Goldman Sachs Group to manage their bond offerings said they are closely monitoring whether last week's explosive Senate hearings on the firm [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro From the company's founding, questions were raised about whether it was appropriate for five not-for-profit hospital executives to sit on the board of LHP Hospital Group, an [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro While deals between not-for-profit hospitals haven't taken off like a rocket, three such deals got off the launch pad last week. In Texas, two-hospital Valley Baptist Health [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro While Cerberus Capital Management is drawing a lot of attention for its plunge into hospitals, several of its private-equity peers might be contemplating the other end of [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Caritas Christi Health Care in Boston and Detroit Medical Center are like formerly broken-down cars that run again, but are stuck in third gear. Both systems have [...]

Byline: Joe Carlson and Vince Galloro Health reform had hospital experts cribbing Winston Churchill last week, saying that passage of the final bill was the end of the beginning of [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Just because healthcare reform was signed into law last week doesn't mean that opposition to the measure has melted away. One hospital system, Wellmont Health System, Kingsport, [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Investor-owned hospitals have long been a product ofand found inthe Sun Belt, with spiritual homes in Nashville and Dallas. Emblematic of the Rust Belt, Detroit does not [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro The tornado that ripped through Greensburg, Kan., on May 4, 2007, devastated more than just bricks and mortar, such as Kiowa County Memorial Hospital. It also tore [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro HCA and LifePoint Hospitals are getting while the getting is good for investor-owned hospital chains, and in credit markets generally, according to one investment banker. Both companies [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Spheris, a medical transcription provider that is in bankruptcy, and Community Health Systems have reached a settlement, according to bankruptcy court records, but neither company will specify [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Like three other privately held hospital companies, Ardent Health Services said last week that it is planning to make a distribution to its shareholders. Whether, like many [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro The other shoe dropped last week in the cardiology market of Austin, Texas. Just six weeks after St. David's HealthCare acquired a major cardiologist practice, that joint [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Investor-owned hospital companies reported strong earnings throughout 2009, and now the private equity backers of two of those companies will reap the rewards. Iasis Healthcare and Vanguard [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro and Joe Carlson In 2009, for the second straight year, there were slim pickings in hospital mergers and acquisitions. 2010, however, looks likely to produce a bumper [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro For Novant Health and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, playing the certificate-of-need waiting game isn't so bad. The two not-for-profit systems agreed recently to settle their [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro More signs are emerging that investor-owned hospitals are expecting a busy acquisition market in 2010 and beyond. Last week, Nashville-based HCA hired Joseph Sowell as its senior [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro A year ago, predictions about higher unemployment fueling increases in uncompensated care seemed logical. For the first half of 2009, however, uncompensated care costs were lower than [...]

Byline: Gregg Blesch and Vince Galloro Two proposed mergers got a green light from their state attorneys general with oversight of the matter. North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem approved [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro From London to Washington to Kansas City, Mo., HCA is facing legal actions that could have impacts measured in hundreds of millions of dollars. Last week, the [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Tenet Healthcare Corp. is taking a different tack in its refinancing journey, and it will even save the company some money on interest costs. Dallas-based Tenet said [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Fred Walters has seen firsthand how the financial collapse that began a year ago has affected physicians. Walters, president of the Radiology Associates of Central Texas, Waco, [...]

Byline: Melanie Evans and Vince Galloro The financial tremors that rocked the world as giants fell a year ago continues to be felt in the administration offices of healthcare systems [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro When Damond Boatwright took the job as CEO of Lee's Summit (Mo.) Medical Center, he was fulfilling a long-term goal. Whether that goal relates to his career [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro What a local community group couldn't negotiate from Catholic Health Initiatives, Kansas Attorney General Steve Six will try to win in court. Six filed suit last week [...]