Ardent manages 30 acute care hospitals, more than 200 care sites and over 1,700 providers across six states.
Firms such as Advent, Vestar and CD&R have been making deals in the category recently.
OceanSound recently bought TranSystems from Sentinel and merged the engineering firm with Gannett Fleming.
Famar is an Athens-based pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organisation.
Large-cap private equity firms could show interest in buying the distributor of bagged ice.
The Vail, Colorado PE firm’s recent acquisition of organic beef brand Verde Farms is an example of its investment strategy focusing on companies that improve health.
The private equity firm’s investments in ProductLife Group, Horizons Optical and Steer Automotive ‘demonstrated strong momentum’, says partner Steven Tredget.
'I would be disappointed if we did not make multiple acquisitions over the coming years,' said Vestar's Ken O'Keefe.
Whitevision is a document processing software provider based in the Netherlands.
'It’s certain types of strategies and business models that have the potential in the enforcer’s view to harm competition that they are really looking out for,' says Sheppard Mullin's Bevin Newman.