2018’s Biggest Healthcare Deals by Sector
2018 isn’t quite in the rearview mirror yet. We’re still scouring the news feeds for straggling deal announcements, and that never stops, honestly. With approximately 1,850 deals reported so far for 2018, healthcare deal volume is 14% more than 2017. Before we nail the numbers down, it’s easy to spot the biggest deals (by disclosed price) in each of the 13 healthcare sectors we follow. Most should be familiar names, but you can’t follow every sector. That’s why we’re here. Enjoy. Read More »
Numotion Moves to AEA Investors
Audax Private Equity and LLR Partners have exited their jointly held rehab company, Numotion, which has been a major player in consolidating the complex rehabilitation technology (CRT) market. AEA Investors is the new owner. The target provides complex rehabilitation technology (CRT), including manual and power wheelchairs designed to meet the unique medical and functional needs of individuals with significant disabilities and medical conditions. Numotion was formed in January 2013 through the merger of United Seating Mobility and ATG Rehab. Audax Private Equity acquired ATG Rehab in January 2011, and LLR Partners acquired United Seating and Mobility in February 2011. Since then, the... Read More »
Reliant Rehabilitation Sold to H.I.G. Capital
Rehabilitation deals aren’t made public very frequently, but when the target is big enough, we hear about them. That was the case when H.I.G. Capital announced the closing of its acquisition of Reliant Rehabilitation Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of therapy services, including physical, occupational and speech, to skilled nursing facilities. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Reliant is one of the largest providers of contract therapy services in the United States. It uses a proprietary care model that emphasizes early intervention/assessment, properly designed clinical care plans and pathways to improve patients’ functional levels. In this time of critical labor shortages in many... Read More »
DW Healthcare Partners Exits Rehab and Enters Behavioral Health
DW Healthcare Partners has had a busy summer, buying a healthcare staffing company and a behavioral health platform, then selling its rehabilitation business. In June, the firm announced its investment in Aequor Healthcare Services in Piscataway, New Jersey, the sixth investment made by DW Healthcare Partners Fund IV, LP. Aequor specializes in healthcare and clinical staffing by providing physicians, therapists, nurses, technologists and allied healthcare professionals to hospital systems, nursing homes, home care providers, clinics, school systems, laboratories, and pharmaceutical/life sciences organizations nationwide. In August, it acquired California Psychcare, a behavioral services... Read More »
MedEquities Realty Acquires Vibra IRF Assets
Vibra Healthcare LLC has sold the real estate assets of its 60-bed Southern Indiana Rehabilitation Hospital, an inpatient rehabilitiation facility (IRF) it acquired on April 30 this year from KentuckyOne, a subsidiary of Ascension. The hospital is located in New Albany, Indiana, a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky, where KentuckyOne is based. The buyer, MedEquities Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: MRT), agreed to pay $23.4 million for the 64,380-square foot facility, with an average price-per-bed of $390,000. The company concurrently executed a 15-year triple-net lease of the IRF with Vibra at an initial lease rate of 9.0% with annual escalators. Vibra will convert the 26 beds currently used as... Read More »Schedule a demo
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