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Unraveling Healthcare Real Estate in 2024: A Conversation with Christopher Stai of HREA Healthcare Real Estate Advisors
The Real Estate Investment Firm (REIF) and Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) markets remain among the most dynamic sectors. The first half of 2024 (1H 2024) exemplified this trend, continuing to demonstrate significant activity and engagement. The REIF sector has shown significant acquisition activity in acquisitions in the past few years. In 2019, there were two transactions with a REIF buyer. This jumped to 22 transactions in 2020, 74 deals in 2021, and continued to escalate in 2022 when 141 transactions were announced. Yet, there was a decline in 2023 when 97 acquisitions were announced. In the first six months of 2024, 52 transactions were completed by a REIF buyer. We spoke with... Read More »
Edwards Lifesciences to Acquire Innovalve
Edwards Lifesciences announced on July 15 that it has exercised its option to acquire Innovalve Bio Medical Ltd. following its initial investment in 2017. The purchase price is about $300 million in cash. Innovalve Bio Medical Ltd. is an early-stage medical device company that develops catheter-based heart valve therapies. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Israel. Edwards Lifesciences is an American medical technology company headquartered in Irvine, California, specializing in artificial heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. It developed the SAPIEN transcatheter aortic heart valve made of cow tissue within a balloon-expandable, cobalt-chromium frame, deployed via... Read More »
Pennant Group Expands With Signature Healthcare Assets
The Pennant Group Inc. announced on July 11 that it has agreed to acquire Signature Healthcare at Home’s hospice and home health assets for a combined purchase price of $80 million. Signature Healthcare at Home is a provider of home health and hospice services in the Pacific Northwest, with multiple locations throughout Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Signature employs a team of more than 650 home health and hospice staff. It has an annual revenue of approximately $78 million, home health admissions of more than 12,000 and an average daily hospice census of more than 300, each over the trailing twelve months. The Pennant Group, Inc. is a holding company of independent operating subsidiaries... Read More »
OhioHealth Sells Outreach Laboratory Services Business to Quest Diagnostics
OhioHealth, based in Columbus, Ohio, announced on July 10 that it had signed an agreement to sell certain assets of its outreach laboratory services business to Quest Diagnostics. OhioHealth is a family of not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare facilities serving central Ohio since 1891. Quest Diagnostics provides diagnostic testing information services in the United States and internationally. Quest annually serves one in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States with approximately 50,000 employees. According to its most recent annual report, Quest Diagnostics generated $9.25 billion in annual revenues during FY 2023, and annual EBITDA of $1.7... Read More »
Peak Mobile Holdings Acquires PICC Performance
Austin, Texas-based Peak Mobile Holdings announced the acquisition of PICC Performance. PICC Performance is a vascular access provider in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The company’s nursing team and approach have set an industry standard for bedside insertion of peripherally inserted central catheters and midlines. Peak Mobile Holdings and its subsidiaries specialize in programs that prevent hospital admissions and readmissions by equipping mobile nurses and providers with the technology, training and tools to perform procedures typically reserved for hospital settings. Its programs meet patients and their providers at the point-of-care to reduce costs and optimize the care journey.... Read More »
MB2 Dental Acquires Bethlehem Dentistry and Brookwood Dentistry
MB2 Dental Solutions announced on July 9 that it was expanding its network with two acquisitions. Brookwood Dentistry is a dental practice that utilizes digital dentistry to care for patients. According to its website, the practice has three providers on staff. Bethlehem Dentistry operates out of one location in Bethlehem, Georgia. According to its website, there are two providers on staff. MB2 Dental Solutions, a portfolio company of middle-market private equity firm Charlesbank Capital Partners since February 2021, partners with dentists and specialists. Founded in 2007, MB2 offers general dentistry services, orthodontics, cosmetic dentistry and oral surgery. ... Read More »
JLL Closes Cypress West Partners and TPG Angelo Gordon’s Acquisition of Chula Vista, California MOB
On July 9, JLL Capital Markets announced that it represented Turner Impact Capital in the sale of a Chula Vista, California medical outpatient building (MOB). The property was purchased through a joint venture between Cypress West Partners and TPG Angelo Gordon. The MOB consists of 37,000 square feet. The facility is on the campus of the 173-bed Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista. Renovated in 2015, the four-story property is currently leased to 12 tenants, including anchor tenant Scripps Health. Cypress West Partners is a privately held investor, developer, owner and operator of medical properties throughout the western United States. The Cypress West Partners portfolio... Read More »
Uwill Acquires College Mental Health Startup Virtual Care Group
Natick, Massachusetts-based Uwill announced that it has acquired Virtual Care Group, a student-focused telehealth and wellness support platform. Based in Los Angeles, Virtual Care Group offers a platform that pairs providers with students, college faculty and staff who need support for their well-being and mental and physical health. The platform is currently implemented at more than 100 colleges. Uwill is a mental health platform for colleges and students. Uwill partners with colleges to offer students on-demand virtual access to licensed therapists and providers trained in crisis counseling. Students can also attend online wellness events through the company’s mental health and... Read More »
