Mergers & Acquisitions

Transfer of files to pharmacies within the Loblaw banner goes off without a hitch.

Battle with PBM said to have cost pharmacy chain more than $4 billion in annual revenue.

Even if you have debt, incorporation may be beneficial to you

The primary takeaway I have from nearly five years of managing a place such as the Ontario Ministry of Health is that leadership time, not money, is the scarcest resource. You cannot possibly fathom, until you sit there, just how difficult it is to make change. It’s that learning that makes me a bit skeptical about whether mergers are really the best investment of time for healthcare leaders.

RICHMOND HILL, ONT. _ Mackenzie Health is a new regional healthcare provider formed to serve southwest York Region, just north of Toronto. It will include two full-service hospitals: the renamed Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital, formerly known as York Central Hospital, and the future Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital, to be operational in 2018-'19.

A national overview of the last year shows pharmacists have proven remarkably resilient as they begin to adjust to the new pharmacy realities. Meanwhile, new developments promise to shake things up.

TORONTO _ St. John’s Rehab Hospital and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre have agreed to merge voluntarily into a single, comprehensive healthcare provider.

Just a year after the Ontario government gave the green light to remote dispensing machines, the fate of the controversial technology is up in the air with the bankruptcy of PharmaTrust.