Check out this post from the latest FierceHealthcare News Brief where reporter Sandra Yin writes:  Caritas Christi Health Care is going to the other side. Now that its sale to Steward Health Care System LLC, a newly formed affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. is complete, the Caritas system will operate as the largest for-profit healthcare network in New England, WBUR reports.

Cerberus, which doesn’t have experience buying hospitals–and which, perhaps, is best known for buying an equity stake in Chrysler as it was going down the tubes–gets a hospital system that is nearly $500 million in debt.

I am thinking we all should take note here that big investors are putting their capital into healthcare and ACO’s.  Perhaps the tides are turning and healthcare if becoming a safe place for investment.  With much uncertainty overseas investing in healthcare makeovers can be a safer bet.  What are your thoughts?

The article goes on: It looks like Cerberus deal makers are hoping to make money off the healthcare reform by creating a Steward Health Care accountable care organization. Dr. Ralph de la Torre, Caritas CEO, who will stay on, notes that they are “investing in the Caritas hospitals for the long term and building a strong, community-based ACO.”

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