Capital Finance

Nautic Partners LLC, a Providence-based private equity firm, has acquired Reliant Hospital Partners, LLC, a Dallas-based operator of seven rehabilitation facilities.

Health Care REIT, Inc., a real estate investment trust based in Toledo, Ohio, has completed the formation of an $890 million partnership with Benchmark Senior Living, which was previously announced on February 15, 2011.

Rural/Metro Corporation, a national provider of ambulance and private fire protection services in 20 states, has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by the global private equity firm Warburg Pincus in an all-cash transaction.

Affiliated Computer Services of Dallas, a subsidiary of Xerox, has announced plans to acquire CredenceHealth, a Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of software that captures and analyzes patient data to assist healthcare providers and health plans in improving quality of care and compliance with meaningful use regulations.

Insight Health Services, a provider of fixed-site and mobile diagnostic imaging services, emerged from Chapter 11 restructuring this week.

Avanti Hospitals has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Coast Plaza Hospital in Norwalk, Calif., which would be the company's fourth hospital in Los Angeles County.

Link to EMRs, patient satisfaction give finance officers a reason to invest

Vermont legislators were scheduled to vote in early March on a three-pronged bill that would set the state on a course to establish the nation's first state-sponsored single-payer health insurance system.

Six health plans -Aetna, CDPHP, Hudson Health Plan, MVP Health Care, UnitedHealthcare and Empire BlueCross Blue Shield - have provided $1.5 million in incentive payments to 236 separate primary care physicians in 11 practices that achieved patient-centered medical home recognition by the NCQA.

Decision could impact costs and quality