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Belgian-owned Chilean healthcare provider gets IFC funding for LATAM senior healthcare

A Belgian-owned Chilean healthcare provider is to receive up to $10million from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) – a member of the World Bank Group. IFC will invest the sum in equity in Seniority Chile S.A., a provider of senior healthcare services in Latin America that operates under the brand name of Acalis. This is IFC’s first transaction in senior healthcare services. We speak to Bart Vanderschrick, CEO of Belgian group Senior Assist International which Seniority Chile S.A. is part of.
November 24, 2016

FREE BLOG Latam countries thriving despite recession

Despite, or perhaps because of the recession, prospects for private healthcare services in Latin America are good. The financial crisis in public healthcare is forcing governments to rethink attitudes to the private sector and to open up the sector to external investors. And new, innovative models are emerging. In this 6,000 word report we give a detailed analysis of the six main markets – Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Colombia, and over the next few days we'll be profiling those major players, country by country.
August 12, 2016

Colombia’s statutory insurers on edge

Colombia's Minister of Health Alejandro Gaviria discussed the country's statutory insurance crisis at the private hospital association's 2016 ACHC Congress in Bogotá. Gaviria is wary of public subsidies to statutory insurers and rules out healthcare reform over the next couple of years. Instead, he argued, the system must draw on private funds to overcome liquidity problems.
July 7, 2016

Interview: Javier Eguiguren, CFO, Banmédica

Santiago-listed payor-provider Banmédica is at the forefront of international expansion in Latin America with six insurers, ten hospitals and eight outpatient clinics in Chile, Colombia and Peru. Sales were up 14.5% to CLP 265bn (US$ 380m) in 2015, with a 9% EBITDA margin. This year it plans to invest over US$100m to expand capacities in all three countries, jumping from 1,900 to 2,500 hospital beds. We talk to CFO Javier Eguiguren.
May 20, 2016

The cost of getting culture wrong in long-term care

Cultural issues are at the forefront of the difficulties in running and investing into long-term care in emerging markets. At the Healthcare Business International 2016 conference, the CEOs of Senior Assist, Belgium’s third largest care home operator and a player in Latin America and Turkey, and TVM Capital, a private equity firm investing in rehabilitation in the Middle East, shared their views on the sector.
May 3, 2016
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