Kindred Healthcare and Mercy acquire Everest Rehabilitation Hospital of Oklahoma City

Kindred Healthcare and Mercy Clinic Oklahoma Metropolis have obtained Everest Rehabilitation Clinic of Oklahoma Metropolis, the organizations announced these days. Kindred and Mercy will operate the healthcare facility, now renamed Mercy Rehabilitation Clinic Oklahoma Metropolis South, via their current joint undertaking. Financial terms have been not disclosed.
 
Mercy Rehabilitation Clinic Oklahoma Metropolis South is a 36-bed rehabilitation healthcare facility positioned in the southern portion of Oklahoma Metropolis.
 
Kindred and Mercy also operate Mercy Rehabilitation Clinic Oklahoma Metropolis, which opened in Oct 2012 and is positioned in the northern portion of the city. Mercy Rehabilitation Clinic Oklahoma Metropolis at the moment has fifty beds and is including a 10,000-sq.-foot affected person wing that will increase capacity by 32{bcdc0d62f3e776dc94790ed5d1b431758068d4852e7f370e2bcf45b6c3b9404d}, with sixteen extra beds and two extra affected person treatment areas.
 
Equally Oklahoma Metropolis hospitals provide people recovering from stroke and other prolonged-phrase ailments or accidents and feature specialised scientific systems. 

Mercy Rehabilitation Clinic in northwest Oklahoma Metropolis usually operates at or in the vicinity of capacity, which boundaries the skill to grow products and services or confess extra people for necessary rehabilitation treatment. The extra beds under design at the northern location, as very well as the addition of a second facility in southern Oklahoma Metropolis, will assistance meet a developing desire for rehabilitation products and services, the hospitals stated Tuesday.

What is THE Effects

Mercy Rehabilitation Clinic Oklahoma Metropolis was named the very best physical rehabilitation middle in Oklahoma and one particular of the very best in the nation by Newsweek journal in 2020. 

Kentucky-dependent Kindred Healthcare is a specialty healthcare facility business providing acute health and fitness products and services in prolonged-phrase acute treatment hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, acute rehabilitation models and behavioral health and fitness traces of small business, all specializing in managing the most medically advanced people. 

Mercy, named one particular of the prime five huge U.S. health and fitness devices for four consecutive years by IBM Watson Health, serves millions on a yearly basis.

THE Larger sized Pattern

Since 2015, world wide healthcare M&A has greater in worth every single 12 months except for 2017, according to S&P World.

A Kaufman Hall report from Q2 2020 also reported a dip in M&A activity, but professionals feel the pandemic may perhaps be strengthening the rationale for long term partnerships.

“Even a lot more powerful than COVID right now is the route of transformation healthcare was on,” stated Anu Singh, managing director of mergers, acquisitions and partnerships at Kaufman Hall, at the time. “There are new capabilities within health and fitness devices, effectiveness all-around costs and treatment administration, and the migration to worth as an alternative of quantity. Strategic partners have been searching for strategic partners pre-COVID, and that has ongoing.”

ON THE File

“As an Oklahoman, I am honored to be portion of increasing products and services to a lot more people in Oklahoma Metropolis as we proceed to increase with Mercy,” stated Sharon Smeltzer, Division Vice President – West, Kindred Clinic Rehabilitation Solutions and the to start with main executive officer of Mercy Rehabilitation Clinic. “This expansion is attainable mainly because of the tricky operate, devotion and determination of our co-personnel to furnishing significant-good quality and compassionate rehabilitative treatment.”

“We know our people need access to a lot more rehab products and services to support in their restoration and it is really essential to us to be capable to offer a comprehensive continuum of treatment at Mercy,” stated Zack Dawson, vice president of functions and submit-acute products and services at Mercy Clinic Oklahoma Metropolis. “We are fired up people products and services will quickly be offered for even a lot more people in a easy location.”
 

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