Article: LifePoint Hospitals Completes Acquisitions of Carraway Medical Centers in Alabama and Logan General Hospital in West Virginia.

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BRENTWOOD, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2002

LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. (NASDAQ:LPNT) today announced that, effective December 1, 2002, it has completed the previously announced acquisitions of Burdick-West Medical Center in Haleyville, Alabama; Northwest Medical Center in Winfield, Alabama; and Logan General Hospital in Logan, West Virginia.

Burdick-West Medical Center is a 99-bed facility and Northwest Medical Center is a 71-bed facility. These hospitals were purchased from Methodist Health System, a not-for-profit company based in Birmingham, Alabama, for approximately $22 million plus working ...

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