Asian healthcare-focused PE firm Quadria Capital has taken a minority stake in Indonesia's second-largest hospital chain, listed group PT Medikaloka Hermina.
UK-based community homecare and domiciliary care specialist City & County Healthcare Group has acquired rivals MiHomecare Limited and Complete Care Amegreen, further extending its UK portfolio as M&A activity in the sector resumes after a Covid hiatus.
This week we interview Martin Jones, the CEO of UK-based home care operator Home Instead, about the effect of COVID on the market, drivers, and the growth of the franchise model.
Legislation in France is set to hike minimum homecare carer wages by 20% in the not-for-profit sector, with financial support from the government to do this. HBI hears low margin for-profit operators fear they will struggle to match this and retain staff.
HBI talks to domiciliary care specialist Natali Healthcare Solutions’ CEO, Nimrod Altman, about COVID, and the market challenges and opportunities it has created.
Care workers in France are quitting domiciliary care in droves, and heading into the more lucrative nursing homes sector, Amir Reza, CEO of France-based domiciliary specialist Vitalliance tells HBI.
That the UK's COVID-hit domiciliary market has recently been hugely challenging both operationally and financially for providers is no surprise, but there is ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ with M&A increasingly back on the table, one UK-based operator tells HBI.
TVM Capital Healthcare has sold the GCC's largest post-acute/rehab provider Cambridge Medical and Rehabilitation Center (CMRC) to investor Amanat Holdings for 10.5x its 2020 EBITDA, a much lower multiple than it got for similar business Provita six years ago. We discuss the change in M&A climate with TVM CEO Dr Helmut Schuehsler and talk to Amanat's CFO about its plans with CMRC and its three other healthcare assets.
A $20bn merger between two giants of Brazilian healthcare, listed HMOs Hapvida Participacoes e Investimentos SA and Notre Dame Intermedica Participacoes SA (GNDI), will create one of the world’s biggest companies providing verticalized health-care solutions. HBI looks at the deal in detail, and talks to a Brazil-based operator to find out more.
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