Category: healthcare acquisition

Dr. Talbott, longtime First Med Urgent Care owner merged his practice with MedExpress Urgent Care!

UnitedHealth is expanding its healthcare provider footprint.  This week the healthcare giant announced that Optum, it's health services arm, will acquire Surgical Care Affiliates.  The new Optum company is a chain of outpatient surgery centers - 205 facilities across 30 states.  >>Read moreThe addition continues a buying spree over the last few years which has […]

Professional Physical Therapy expanded its reach in metro NY with the acquisition of two hand therapy practices on Long Island - Wilutus Hand Therapy and Advanced Hand Therapy.  Adam Elberg, President of Professional, noted "The growth potential as a result of these acquisitions is very exciting...".  The acquisitions expand Professional's hand therapy services as well […]

FASTMED's partnership last Spring with private equity firm ABRY was expected to spur the urgent care operator's growth with an influx of capital and management talent.  Hats off to FastMed for its initial foray into the Lone Star State with the December acquisition of Texas Urgent Care.  As one of the fastest growing urgent care […]

The pediatric therapy healthcare sector is comprised mainly of therapists or owners who operate 1-2 centers.  Their options to retire, sell their practice and monetize what they had nurtured for years were very limited.  While big therapy companies were primarily interested in acquiring adult practices, financial investors could not see a clear path to a […]

California-based Ensign Group extended its reach to the East Coast with a recent acquisition of a South Carolina skilled nursing facility - Millennium Post Acute Rehabilitation.  The facility joins the Ensign family under a new portfolio subsidiary, Hopewell Healthcare, Inc.Separately, Ensign added two more skilled nursing facilities to its roster on the West Coast (AZ, CA).  […]

Connecticut-based PhysicianOne Urgent Care continues its expansion with the acquisition of a former ASAP Urgent Care location in Hamden, CT.  More clinics, expected by year-end, will bring the PhysicianOne total to 12.  >>Read more

Physical Therapy   BenchMark Rehab Partners welcomed new partners to its physical therapy organization in late July.  Owned by Scott Newton, Pulaski-Ardmore PT strengthens the BenchMark brand - recognized in the field of orthopedics and wound care.  The two new BenchMark clinics serve their respective communities (Pulaski and Ardmore) in south central Tennessee.  They join one […]

Millennium Anesthesia Care (Tampa, FL) is the latest physician group to move under the MEDNAX umbrella.  The practice employs 79 clinicians.   Dr. Jim Gruber, spokesman for Millennium noted the trend toward healthcare consolidation and benefits of a national medical group (access to resources, support and long-term stability) as reason for their affiliation >>Read more Related: New Growth […]