HMA stockholders give green light to merger

Health Management Associates stockholders Wednesday approved a merger agreement that allows the company’s acquisition by Community Health Systems Inc. At a special meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in Naples, 98.7 percent of HMA stockholders’ votes were in favor of adopting the merger agreement, according to a joint written statement from the two hospital chains. Stockholders voting represented about 82 percent of HMA’s outstanding common shares as of Nov. 22, the date of the transaction…