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San Donato keeps it in the family

What will happen to San Donato, Italy’s largest hospital chain, following the death of Professor Giuseppe Rotelli? The founder and architect of the group died aged 68 in the Summer of this year. The business is still entirely owned by the Rotelli family.
October 29, 2013

Alzira wilts

Two hospitals in Valencia have resumed reconstruction, as announced by the Valencian minister of Health earlier this October. What are the chances they will function under the Alzira model, under which hospitals are run on long contracts by the private sector? What’s happening with existing Alzira contracts in Valencia? We talk to Luis Barcia, General Director of Tich Consulting, to find out more.
October 29, 2013

Interview: Matthew Strassberg, Senior Partner, Mid Europa

Diagnostyka, the Mid Europa-owned Polish leader in laboratory diagnostics, has just snapped up Olympus Consilio, the largest specialised pathology lab in Poland. This follows the acquisition last week by Mid Europa’s Czech and Slovak laboratory arm, Alpha Medical, of Euromedic’s Czech lab business. We talk to Matthew Strassberg, Senior Partner at Mid Europa, who is in bullish form.
October 29, 2013

Raised Turkish ceiling could be a curse – not a blessing

The raising of the ceiling on the amount private hospitals in Turkey can charge to patients who are part-funded by the state SKG payor could well prove to be a curse. A condition for the rise was that the authorities would start to actually enforce the ceiling. That could prove to be very bad news, as most hospitals have been charging way over the ceiling.
October 29, 2013

Polish prospects ahead of the 2015 election

The Polish private healthcare sector expects little action ahead of the next general election in 2015. But there could yet be surprises. We look at opportunities in the country, now that Bartosz Arłukowicz, the current Minister of Health, has failed to implement meaningful healthcare reform. Should the next election be won by the statist Law & Justice party, which is ahead in the polls and which is broadly opposed to private sector involvement in healthcare, this reform may be tabled completely. A May 2013 poll shows that 11% of the electorate want Arłukowicz, who is seen as a ditherer, sacked.
October 28, 2013

DomusVI for sale

DomusVI, the second-largest French nursing home chain, is to be sold in early 2014, say reliable sources. We take a look at the potential deal.
October 25, 2013

Alpha buys Euromedic’s labs in the Czech Republic

Alpha Medical, part of the East European lab chain owned by private equity house Mid Europa, has acquired seven labs from Euromedic in the Czech Republic. The move will almost doubles Alpha's sales. We talk to Peter Lednicky, CEO of Alpha Medical, about the deal, and look at the wider East European lab market.
October 21, 2013

Ramsay Healthcare to buy Medipsy

Ramsay Healthcare looks set to more than double its number of beds in France with the proposed acquisition of Medipsy, the psychiatric arm of Generale de Santé, France’s largest hospital chain. French labour laws have forced the two to reveal that Ramsay currently has the exclusive right to buy the company. So: is Ramsay picking up a snip?
October 21, 2013

New funding planned for Slovenian nursing home sector

Since our last review of Slovenia, the country seems to have seen huge private sector growth. The number of beds in nursing homes has climbed to just under 20,000, up from under 1,000 beds a couple of years ago, as the government plays fast and loose with concession hand-outs. Yet these numbers might be misleading. Boris Koprivnikar, of the Association of Social Institutions of Slovenia, explains why the nursing home sector is not progressing, despite appearances, and what is being done to resolve this.
October 18, 2013

Czech hospital prospects ahead of election

How profitable are the Czech Republic's public and private hospitals? How indebted are they? A new report sheds some light on the situation, showing that some private hospitals are running 16% EBITDA margins. Given that the next general election could lead to a new wave of functional privatisations, this could open up a big - and, apparently, profitable - new sector.
October 18, 2013
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