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LUDINGTON, Mich.—Memorial Medical Center in Ludington is the latest hospital with plans to become a member of Spectrum Health. Memorial Medical, an 80-bed hospital near the shore of Lake Michigan, signed a nonbinding letter of intent to join the not-for-profit system, based about 90...
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Five clinical service chiefs at Royal Oak, Mich.-based Beaumont Health System delivered a letter to the Beaumont board of directors asking the board to reconsider its proposed merger with Henry Ford Health System, sources told Crain's Detroit Business.
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Quest Diagnostics, a Madison, N.J.-based provider of diagnostic information services, has acquired medical center operator Concentra's toxicology and clinical laboratory business and agreed to serve as Concentra's primary provider of workplace drug toxicology and clinical laboratory testing.
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The Illinois state health facilities board today approved two hospital merger deals intended to reshape the landscape of healthcare in the suburbs.
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A heated takeover battle has erupted around generic-drug company Actavis as industry players seek to shore themselves up amid increasing competition and fewer new knock-off-drug opportunities.
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Not-for-profit Billings (Mont.) Clinic and for-profit, Brentwood, Tenn.-based RegionalCare Hospital Partners have formed a joint venture that seeks to draw on the operational expertise and financial resources of both organizations.
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Memorial Medical Center in Ludington, Mich., is the latest hospital with plans to become a member of Spectrum Health. Memorial has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to join the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based not-for-profit system.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.—Mountain States Health Alliance, which operates 12 hospitals in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia, will join Vanderbilt University Medical Center's network of affiliated hospitals. As part of the affiliation, the two organizations will collaborate on...
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Home health and hospice companies weathered a tough first quarter that was evident in bottom-line results that could not keep pace with last year.
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ICU Medical, the San Clemente, Calif.-based producer of intravenous medical equipment, is weighing a sale that may fetch more than $1 billion, said people familiar with the matter. The shares rose to their highest closing price since first being sold to the public 21 years ago.
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