Bosnia and Herzegovina’s largest private integrated healthcare network, ASA Medical Group, has acquired Sarajevo Heart Centre, a Bosnian private provider of advanced cardiac and intensive care.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s largest private, fully integrated healthcare network, ASA Medical Group, has been launched. It brings together ASA Bolnica (ASA Hospital), a 180-bed general hospital in Sarajevo founded in 2024, the Eurofarm Polyclinics, network of outpatient facilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the ASA Institute, its research and development arm.
For years there has been a trend towards using outpatient services wherever possible - to improve patient outcomes, to better use an increasingly scarce workforce, and to increase cost efficiency. On the “Outpatient differential” panel at HBI 2023, how this push looks across the world was a key topic for discussion.
This week, HBI looks at the annual inflow of nurses from abroad to the big five Western European markets - the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain - using public data from OECD. Those looking for an outlier need look no further than the UK.
HBI hears that the surprise buyer of European imaging and cancer treatment provider Affidea, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL) may not have been the highest bidder, despite winning out. HBI considers who else was in the running, and the EBITDA figure that may have been used for the deal.
Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (“GBL”) has signed definitive agreements to acquire a majority stake in European imaging and cancer treatment provider Affidea from B-FLEXION, the private investment firm of the Switzerland-based billionaire Bertarelli family. GBL will invest up to €1bn of equity for the transaction which is its first substantive healthcare investment.
European imaging and cancer treatment provider Affidea is for sale according to multiple sources. HBI chats to an operator source to find about more about the sale and to speculate on price and purchasers.
With 125 million people - 80 million of whom live in the big four (Poland, Romania, Czechia and Hungary) - CEE is a large and diverse market. But is it a tempting one? HBI-365 members heard an expert panel in our CEE State of the Regions broadcast suggest that while COVID is creating huge problems across the world, it is also creating opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe.
Nearly a third of all private equity-owned health care businesses in Europe have been held for at least five years, according to the new HBI Deals Pipeline tool. That suggests many private equity houses are struggling to sell on their investments.
America’s largest private equity-held hospital operator Steward Health Care looks to be eyeing up a number of Southeast European countries, while its deal to run half of Malta’s public hospitals attracts scrutiny.
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