RegionalCare Merges with Essent Healthcare

RegionalCare Hospital Partners, a company backed by Warburg Pincus, is merging with Essent Healthcare Inc., which is owned by Vestar Capital Partners and Cressey & Company. RegionalCare is based in Brentwood, Tennessee. Essent is based in Nashville. Together the two companies will create a seven-hospital system across Texas, Alabama, Connecticut, Ohio, Iowa and Pennsylvania. Financial terms of the deal were not released.

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