About Lisa Phillips
Lisa Phillips is an experienced Healthcare M&A Expert, B2B writer, research analyst, and journalist. She joined Irving Levin Associates in December 2012 as Editor of The Health Care Information Source and all its companion products, the weekly Health Care Deal News, the monthly Health Care M&A News, the quarterly Health Care M&A Report and annual Health Care Services Acquisition Report.
Lisa has more than 25 years of reporting, writing and researching content for trade publications such as Advertising Age, American Demographics, The American Lawyer and Folio:. She helped to launch a new line of business research at Gartner, Inc., as Editorial Director of GartnerG2. Her previous position was as a Senior Analyst at eMarketer, Inc.
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by Lisa Phillips | Apr 20, 2020 4:27 pm | Behavioral Health Care
Substance abuse treatment is still attracting investors’ attention, even in the COVID-19 pandemic. In April, BRC Recovery Family of Programs, an addiction services provider, received a joint investment from Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) and NewSpring Health... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Apr 20, 2020 4:16 pm | Physician Medical Groups
The Physician Medical Group sector has posted blazing merger and acquisition activity in recent years. Annual deal volume in the sector hit 207 deals in 2017, followed by 253 deals in 2018 and 241 deals in 2019. Enter COVID-19 in 2020. Social distancing is the new... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Apr 14, 2020 1:53 pm | Hospitals, Other Services
Adventist Health has acquired Blue Zones, a community-based population health management company that employs a systemic and environmental approach to improving the health of entire cities and communities. The organization’s work in more than 50 communities... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Apr 14, 2020 1:51 pm | Hospitals
It’s hard enough to go through Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings once. Verity Health System, which has had a string of for-profit owners since it was sold by the Daughters of Charity Health System to BlueMountain Capital Management in 2016, is on its second... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Apr 14, 2020 1:50 pm | Hospitals
Kootenai Health, a not-for-profit health system based in Coeur d’Alene in north-central Idaho, has taken on two critical access hospitals that were part of Essentia Health in Duluth, Minnesota. Kootenai provides comprehensive medical services to patients in... Read More »