As patients look for alternatives to emergency hospital room visits, urgent care centers have risen to meet the demand. Urgent Care Centers are another core subsector of the Other Services sector, as healthcare companies and private equity build vast networks in the U.S. to offer affordable walk-in non-emergency services to patients in a variety of communities. HealthCareMandA.com is devoted to healthcare merger and acquisition data for the serious analyst and investor for 13 healthcare markets. Every day, this service alerts you to developments in all the key segments of the health care service and technology markets, including Hospitals, Physician Medical Groups, eHealth, Long-Term Care, and more. Our readers have access to exclusive digital content and breaking news and live webinars featuring members of our editorial staff and industry experts.
HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) announced last week it purchased 24 MedSpring urgent care centers in Texas from Fresenius Medical Care (NYSE: FMS). MedSpring centers offer treatment for a wide range of common injuries and illnesses. The 24 clinics are dispersed throughout major cities like Austin, Dallas and Houston. Fresenius acquired MedSpring Urgent Care Centers in 2014 for an undisclosed price. At the […]
It takes a big platform to combine a prominent urgent care company with a major multi-specialty practice. Warburg Pincus is now providing that platform. On June 21, the private equity firm announced its urgent care company, New York City-based CityMD, will merge with Summit Medical Group, a physician-owned multispecialty medical practice anchored in Berkeley Heights, […]
Consolidation continues in the urgent care services sector, as consumers and healthcare provider organizations look for lower-cost services outside hospital walls. One of the largest deals in this area in 2018 is FastMed Urgent Care‘s acquisition of NextCare Holdings Inc., a portfolio company of Alcentra Capital Corp. since 2016. FastMed, the business name for Urgent Care Holdings of […]
ZT Corporate, a Houston-based private equity firm formerly known as ZT Wealth, won its stalking-horse bid to acquire six freestanding emergency centers in the Houston area, operating under the Neighbors Emergency Center brand. Founded in 1997, the firm owns and manages Altus Health, whose operations include a surgical hospital, cancer centers and three freestanding emergency […]
Tower Health, a six-hospital system across southeastern Pennsylvania, is growing its network rather aggressively lately. On October 2, it announced the acquisition of Premier Urgent Care, which runs 19 urgent care centers in Pennsylvania and Delaware. A week earlier, it reported a new joint venture with United Surgical Partners International (USPI), part of Tenet Healthcare […]
CityMD, the New York City-based urgent care chain, is beginning to tap the services of its partner, Warburg Pincus LLC. On February 13, the company announced its acquisition of STAT Health, a portfolio company of Spaons Barber Jesse & Co., and FirstMed Immediate Medical Care, for an undisclosed price. CityMD was acquired by Warburg Pincus […]
Last week, the Urgent Care Association of America (UCAOA) released its annual Benchmarking Report. In it was the finding that the number of urgent care centers increased 10% in 2016, to 7,357 centers. Looking through our database, it’s obvious that the majority of that year-over-year growth in urgent care centers was de novo, not from […]
