A unit of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. is buying Summit Health–CityMD for $8.9 billion.
Village Practice Management, a unit of the Deerfield, Illinois, drugstore giant (Nasdaq: WBA) that does business as VillageMD, is buying Summit Health, which has more than 370 urgent-care centers in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Central Oregon. Together, VillageMD and Summit Health will have more than 680 provider locations in 26 markets.
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