Attorney General signs off on Akron Children's Hospital purchase

Yesterday Attorney General Marc Dann "signed off on Akron Children's Hospital's $26 million purchase of a pediatric medical facility in the Mahoning Valley ... after reviewing the proposal's compliance with antitrust laws." (Source: Gongwer News Service Ohio Report, Nov. 26, 2007.) As previously reported, ACH will purchase the Forum Health Beeghly Medical Park facility and open a new pediatric hospital there in 2008. "Forum Health will transfer its birthing, obstetrics, and gynecology center to Northside Medical Center in Youngstown."