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Market Focus: Phoenix (January 2006)

Phoenix rising, and rising, and rising POPULATION, MEDICAL DEVELOPMENT CONTINUE TO GROW AT A STAGGERING PACE By John Mugford Phoenix’s forecasts for population and healthcare growth during the next few decades are quite staggering. The population of the metropolitan area, currently at an estimated 3.6 million, is expected to increase by nearly 1.6 million people […]

Industry Pulse (January 2006)

ATLANTA – A replacement hospital plays a significant part in a $3 billion capital improvements master plan at Emory University in Atlanta. As part of the plan, a 700-bed replacement hospital for the Emory Hospital and Clinic would be built across the road from its current location, and would be clustered with medical research and […]

Guest Column (January 2006)

HEALTHCARE BUYERS CAN AVOID LEGAL PROBLEMS IF THEY DO THEIR HOMEWORK By Douglas A. Hastings and David E. Matyas As Wall Street’s enthusiasm for investing in healthcare organizations continues to swell and as recent state and federal laws and investigations have raised the stakes associated with healthcare entities’ operations, it is more important than ever […]

Financing & Investment: Briefs (January 2006)

Beverly Enterprises amends merger FILLMORE CAPITAL TO REPLACE NORTH AMERICAN SENIOR CARE AS PARTNER By Murray W. Wolf Beverly Enterprises Inc. (NYSE: BEV) of Fort Smith, Ark., announced Nov. 21 that financing commitments related to its previously reported merger process had been fulfilled, including receipt of a $350 million equity commitment and a $50 million […]

Company Profile: Granite Partners (January 2006)

Off to a running start GRANITE PARTNERS RACKS UP IMPRESSIVE NUMBERS By John Mugford By the year 2003, New York-based Granite Partners LLC, a national real estate investment banking firm, was humming along rather nicely. In fact, since the company’s founding in 1996 by veteran real estate investment banker John D. Lyons, Granite Partners, which […]