Healthcare plans

The firm is expanding its bond counsel practice in Virginia and the Southeast.

The financial health of Magnolia Regional Health Center, a 200-bed public hospital in northern Mississippi, has gone from fair to serious condition all because of an accounting rule.

Marin General Hospital hopes to issue just under $159 million in revenue bonds next month to help pay for its new hospital wing and parking garage, and to retire debt.

Halifax Health cannot use bonds to finance the construction of its 95-bed hospital in Deltona, a Volusia County judge ruled this week, dealing a setback to the public health system's strategy to pay for the $105 million project.

Lenawee County's hospital finance authority board voted Thursday to support ProMedica selling up to $50 million in bonds for the new hospital to be built north of Adrian.

Debt covenant compliance was an issue of concern pointed out during a recent meeting of the Ector County Hospital District audit committee.

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The proposed combination is the latest in a continuing wave of nonprofit healthcare consolidation in Illinois and nationally.

Jefferson County, N.Y., legislators approved a resolution to issue $99 million in revenue bonds for Samaritan Medical Center.

Health care giant University of Pittsburgh Medical Center plans to spend $235 million in the Harrisburg, York and Lancaster areas in 2018. Much of it would go toward a new hospital in York, with some also spent at three other midstate hospitals.