Ejection Fraction (EF) is a measurement used by physicians to determine how well your heart is functioning. An EF is a percentage of blood that is pumped out of the heart during each beat. Ejection refers to the amount of blood that is pumped out of the heart's main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, during each heartbeat.
Mervyns was owned by Target Corp., for the most part under Target's previous incarnation as Dayton Hudson Corp., until 2004, when it was sold to a group of investors including Cerberus Capital Management and Sun Capital Partners.
The Jean Coutu Group bought the Eckerd drugstore chain in 2004 from J.C. Penney Co. for $2.375 billion with the goal of expand in the US by merging the 1,539-store Eckerd chain with its own Brooks Pharmacy drugstores.