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Dallas PE firm bets on company benefitting from drug cost plan

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 9/20 3:02P Jon Prior

Dallas private equity firm Ancor Capital Partners acquired a company in a growing niche of the health care industry that finds itself at the center of the fight over soaring pharmaceutical costs. And a recent plan released by the Trump...

Alcon shifting global HQ from Fort Worth to Geneva

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 9/11 9:59A Bill Hethcock

Alcon, one of Fort Worth's biggest companies, is shifting its global headquarters to Geneva after the completion of the eye product firm’s spinoff from parent company Novartis, the companies announced today. Alcon Laboratory Inc.’s Fort Worth...

Steward Health Care officially moves HQ to Dallas

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 8/28 7:17A Jessica Bartlett

The health care system still has an office in Boston, a spokeswoman said, but is now officially based in North Texas.

Baylor Scott & White Health plans $70M office consolidation in Deep Ellum

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 8/21 9:42A Bill Hethcock

Baylor Scott & White Health plans to build a large office administration facility in Deep Ellum that will bring together the Dallas-based system’s five North Texas offices under one roof. The new office would create hundreds of construction jobs,...

Maker of scalp cooling caps for cancer patients passes $1M revenue

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 8/21 1:51A Bill Hethcock

A medical tech company with strong Dallas ties that aims to prevent hair loss in cancer patients has reached $1 million in revenue for the first time. Here's an interview with Dignitana's CEO.

Methodist Health System plans medical center in Midlothian

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 8/16 1:27A Bill Hethcock

Dallas-based Methodist Health System plans to build a 190,000-square-foot, full-service acute care hospital and a 45,000-square-foot medical office building in fast-growing Midlothian. The fully licensed facility on 67 acres of land will be the...

Dallas health care firm to close Northern Virginia office, lay off 140 local employees

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 8/6 9:23A Sara Gilgore

A Dallas-based health care provider with a Greater Washington D.C. presence is shutting down its Northern Virginia office in a move that will affect 140 local employees, the company confirmed Monday. Signify Health — the product of a recent...

Trail Gains Little Free Library

Katy Trail Dallas 8/2 6:20A Lauren Whitson

The Katy Trail gained a Little Free Library over the weekend thanks to SMU student, Anne Marie Murphy. Murphy is currently working on her master’s in education and during a...

See the highest-paying professions in the nation's hottest job market

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 7/25 8:05A Evan Hoopfer

It pays to be a medical professional in Dallas-Fort Worth. Pulling data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the slideshow above outlines the 50 highest-paying professions in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area through May, when the data...

Tenet shedding hospitals, debt as UnitedHealth explores Conifer acquisition

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 7/20 1:53A Bill Hethcock

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. is whittling down its debt as it sells off hospitals and explores a sale of its Frisco-based subsidiary, Conifer Health Solutions.

UnitedHealth may bid for Tenet health-management unit; deal could fetch $2B

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 7/19 8:42A Mark Reilly

UnitedHealth Group Inc. is among the companies interested in buying Conifer Health Solutions, the health-management unit of Tenet Healthcare Corp., in what could a deal worth $2 billion or more. The Wall Street Journal, citing unidentified...

National Hot Dog Day

Katy Trail Dallas 7/18 9:53A Lauren Whitson

It s National Hot Dog Day and we want to remind everyone that we hate seeing Hot Dogs on the Katy Trail. Be sure to limit your dog s time on the...

Dallas doctor scores second court victory in patent dispute with Johnson & Johnson subsidiary

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 7/16 1:34A Natalie Posgate, Texas Lawbook

Lawyers from McKool Smith have scored a Patent Trial and Appeal Board win against a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson over claims that the company infringed on technology for sinus surgery developed by a Dallas ear, nose and throat specialist. It...