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Auna’s frenetic race to build national chain in Peru

Private equity-backed Auna has gone from oncological payor-provider to Peru's third largest private healthcare chain in just three years. We speak to financial analyst Fernando Adrián Mendoza at Auna to get a grasp of Peru's prompt healthcare transformation. With global operators like Bupa lurking within Latin America, it's only a matter of time before M&A heats up in this country of 31m.
July 29, 2016

Interview: Andrés Gutiérrez, CEO, Médica Santa Carmen

Mexican renal care cost-cutter Médica Santa Carmen has concluded a second round of investments to expand from four clinics to 20-25 by 2021. We speak to CEO Andrés Gutiérrez about partnerships, the Mexican market and reaching out to the undiagnosed lower classes.
July 29, 2016

FREE BLOG Risk segmentation: What can it do?

We spoke to Mike Wagner from the Advisory Board, who proposes three-tier health insurance systems that prescribe different clinical pathways for chronic patients and the general population. Indeed, there's a flagrant lack of integrated chronic care, which requires multidisciplinary specialization. Especially if we consider that these diseases are pushing healthcare systems off the cliff, not only in the West, but also increasingly in countries with less developed healthcare infrastructure. Focusing on chronic disease is also key to tackling the social determinants of ill health.
July 28, 2016

Bourke takes the reins at Bupa

The diversified healthcare giant Bupa has promoted acting CEO and former CFO, Evelyn Bourke, to CEO. The appointment was widely expected, and will bring continuity to a business that undertook a £1.8bn M&A drive under former CEO, Stuart Fletcher, but saw profits suffer.
July 28, 2016

TPG Growth buys Indian maternity chain Rhea Healthcare for $33m

TPG’s investment platform TPG Growth has bought a majority stake in Bangalore-based maternity chain Rhea Healthcare for $33m (Rs 220 crore), which wants to expand across India. The mother-and-child care sector is one of many growing outpatient specialties in the country.
July 27, 2016

Bpifrance invests €95m into MédiPôle Partenaires

Public investment bank Bpifrance is buying a €95m stake in France’s third largest hospital operator MédiPôle Partenaires. Expect more consolidation, says Xavier Dumont, CFO at MédiPôle Partenaires.
July 27, 2016

Cofinimmo spends in Germany, Belgium and France

The Belgian REIT Cofinimmo announced €25m worth of investment this week, and indicated the European healthcare property market is pivoting towards Germany, as a steady flow of acquisitions continues there, yet prove scarce elsewhere on the continent.
July 27, 2016

China Resources to buy GenesisCare

Macquarie-backed, state-owned conglomerate China Resources (CR) is waiting for Australian regulatory approval to buy private equity house KKR's 45% stake in oncology group GenesisCare. CR wants to continue expanding Genesis in Western Europe and to tap the Chinese market with new hospital management contracts. The deal values the company at US$1.3bn.
July 26, 2016

DentalPro buys DentaDent to create €120m dental network

Only one month after acquiring dental chain Giovanni Bona, Italy’s largest dental network DentalPro buys DentaDent, a small network of 7 dental clinics. Expect 70 new clinics in the next three years and more consolidation in the Italian market, says DentalPro’s president Michel Cohen.
July 22, 2016
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