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Brazilian care group to triple revenue in 18 months, says CEO

Brasil Senior Living (BSL), which claims to be Brazil’s largest long-term care company, is to triple its number of beds and revenue in the next 18 months, according to its CEO Ricardo Soares. He tells Healthcare Nova the long-term care market in Brazil is still in its infancy.
July 18, 2017

Insurers still feel the squeeze in Brazil despite labour law changes

Despite being accused of corruption, Michel Temer and his government do have something to celebrate in Brazil this week. The Senate approved a controversial labour reform aiming to combat the country's rampant unemployment. The move has been widely welcome by the private sector but Healthcare Nova speaks to Ricardo Soares, CEO of Brazil’s largest long-term care provider Brasil Senior Living, who thinks it may not be enough to boost the homecare industry.
July 12, 2017

Chinese investors – ready to take the plunge in Brazil?

Are the Chinese targeting the Brazilian healthcare market in a big way ahead of an expected boom, and if so, what are they planning to do? And why is one of the largest PE houses in the country planning to exit one of the country's largest healthcare maintenance organisations (HMOs)? Healthcare Nova speaks with Martin Benitez, CEO of Brazilian advisory MR Consultoria, about the state of the Brazilian healthcare market.
June 19, 2017

Brazilian imager Alliar expects more PPPs

Brazil’s second largest imaging group Alliar struck the country’s first PPP in this subsector in 2015 and more are now to come according to chief medical officer Dr Juan Jose Cevasco Junior who spoke at the IFC conference in Barcelona earlier this month.
May 24, 2017

Real estate costs too high in Brazil, suggests Senior Assist CEO

Real estate prices scared off the major elderly care group Senior Assist International from entering Lat-Am’s biggest market. In conversation at the IFC conference earlier this month, Bart Vanderschrick, CEO of Senior Assist, said his group had looked at expanding into Brazil last year but found the cost of real estate was too high to make its business model viable.
May 24, 2017

Interview: Frederic Llordachs, co-founder of review and booking site Doctoralia

Doctoralia, the Spanish-based online healthcare appointment booking and review site with a strong presence in Latin America merged with its Polish-based competitor DocPlanner last year. Healthcare Europa talks to Doctoralia co-founder Dr. Frederic Llordachs, now a partner at DocPlanner, about business models, the merger, and the future of booking sites.
March 27, 2017

Intermedica tight lipped about plans to sell, IPO – or both

Intermedica, the private Brazilian payor-provider headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is refusing to comment on its prospective stock market flotation or sale - telling Healthcare Nova that, at this stage, it is “not allowed to comment on anything to do with IPOs or strategy”. But according to one sources in Brazil, Intermedica may go for a mix of both IPO and sale.
March 22, 2017
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