Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Kindred Healthcare in its sale to LifePoint Health, a leader in the delivery of community-based care. Completion of transaction marks the launch of ScionHealth, a national health system that combines acute and post-acute hospitals from LifePoint and Kindred. For more information, please read the company’s press release.

Kindred Healthcare is the nation’s leading specialty hospital company delivering acute health services in its long-term acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, acute rehabilitation units, and behavioral health line of business, LifePoint Health is a leader in community-based healthcare that serves patients and providers across the healthcare continuum.

The Debevoise team is led by M&A partner Andrew Bab and includes counsel Kim Le and associates David Becker, Yean Do, Robert Geren and Elina Sigal, finance partner Ryan Rafferty and associate Alexandra Grossman, benefits partner Lawrence Cagney and associates Andrea Acosta and Zain Kazmi, tax partner Gary Friedman and associate Samuel Krawiecz, intellectual property partner Henry Lebowitz and associate Paisley Piasecki, antitrust partner Ted Hassi and counsel Kyra Bromley and associates Tristan Ellis, Eric Koenigsberg and Matthew Rametta, and real estate associate Malina Welman.