Vital won't participate in Healthscope purchase

Vital won't participate in Healthscope purchase
Jenny Ruth
By Jenny Ruth May 10 (BusinessDesk) - Vital Healthcare Property Trust’s manager says it won’t proceed with the Healthscope purchase and the manger’s chief executive, David Carr, has resigned. Carr will be replaced by Miles Wentworth who had managed the NZX-listed Vital when it was called Calan Healthcare Properties Trust for 10 years until 2006. It also appears that the manager, Canada-based NorthWest Healthcare Property Real Estate Investment Trust, won’t charge Vital the $3 million fees it previously said it would keep if Vital didn’...

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