California’s Stanford Hospital Buys CareCounsel Health Advocacy Specialist

Circle Connections: Mergers & Acquisitions Stanford Hospital & Clinics said it has acquired privately held CareCounsel, which provides employer-sponsored health advocacy and health-care assistance services to 150,000 employees, retirees and their family members. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The 16-year-old San Rafael company helps individuals navigate their way through the health care world using an employer-sponsored benefit. This was reported by the San Francisco Business Times on August 22, 2012. Contact information: James Larkin, Media Contact, Stanford Hospital, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305; 650.736.9459; E-mail: jlarkin@stanfordmed.org . . .