Report: Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions Declining

April 30, 2001 Report: Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions Declining The number of U.S. hospital mergers and acquisitions declined in 2000 for the third consecutive year. According to the report, The Health Care Acquisition Report, released in April 2001 by the health care research firm Irving Levin Associates Inc., hospitals announced 86 deals in 2000, declining from 110 in 1999. The largest deal -- Triad Hospitals' planned $2.4 billion acquisition of Quorum Health Group -- is more than four times larger than the largest deal in 1999. For the first time in seven years, for-profit hospital acquisitions (69 percent) surpassed . . .