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Feb. 23, 2012

Health deals get a booster shot

Real estate lawyers say an increase in health care industry mergers and acquisitions and rising outsourcing of certain hospital care functions in the depressed economy is thrusting them into new types of legal work.


By Jason W. Armstrong


Daily Journal Staff Writer


On the surface, it looked like the kind of commercial real estate deal Adam Salis had handled dozens of times before - a 10-year lease term with an option to extend into the future. His client, a long-term acute care and skilled nursing facility, sought to move into a major Southern California hospital in what's known as a "hospital within a hospital" transaction.


But the deal tur...

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