eQ Care special investment fund has signed an agreement to sell a substantial portfolio of healthcare properties, predominantly elderly and special care homes, to a Scandinavian property fund with a focus on social care.
Buying France's third-largest private psychiatry group Inicea was a 'unique opportunity' for which a capital raise had to be used, Korian CFO Philippe Garin tells HBI, and international bolt-on acquisitions could follow. He discusses the deal's finances, COVID-19's impact on its regulatory environment, and one reason why Germany might have weathered the pandemic so much better than other countries.
NMC Health's administrators Alvarez & Marsal expect to complete a lender-led restructuring or sale of the group by April 2021, and sales of non-core assets - UK hospital chain Aspen Healthcare and international IVF group Eugin - much sooner. It's also revealed the COVID-19 impact on the group's healthcare services revenue.
It's been nearly two years since Australian-owned French hospital group Ramsay Sante completed the acquisition of Nordic-French acute care operator Capio. Contacts give HBI their assessment of how the integration is going and we take a look at Capio's performance since it was acquired.
The left has removed another hospital from the pioneering Alzira model, whereby a consortium of a for-profit payor, a provider and a property company is paid on a per capita basis to handle all the primary and secondary health care needs of 100,000-250,000 people.
Africa needs to come together to find a solution to the COVID crisis, which has proved to be as much an economic one as a healthcare one - and cannot and should not rely on help from outside. This was the view of an expert panel which convened online to discuss COVID-19, healthcare more generally, and African economics.
A health crisis leading to an economic downturn and a political crisis. Here is a case study of how COVID has hit Liberia based on the view of Gyude Moore, senior policy fellow at the Centre for Global Development, and former Minister of Public Work speaking on Saturday (October 10).
Shares in pan-European elderly care group Korian dived by 10% after it announced a €400m capital raise to fund the acquisition of France's third-largest psychiatry provider Inicea from infrastructure investor Antin. But did it pay over-the-odds and do all shareholders support the capital raise? We talk to an analyst from Bryan, Garnier & Co.
HBI Intelligence is now forecasting that most European lab markets will be larger in 2020, than our pre-Covid forecasts. That is despite deep dips in March and April, with some groups thinking about firing two-thirds of their staff and defaulting on rent.
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