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Post-acute Rehabilitation

 

Interview: Panu Kuusisto, CEO, Auron

We talk to the CEO of a Finnish rehabilitation outfit that just partnered with Mehilainen to roll out its digital platform across the group's network, and discuss broken care pathways, international expansion and the size of the Finnish rehab market.

Rehab tariffs to increase in France in 2019?

A local operator tells us tariffs to rehab operators in France could increase in 2019 for the first time in several years, and a large payment made to operators at the end of last year is a positive political sign.

Mubadala buys into long-term/post-acute rehab

Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Investment Company has acquired long-term, post-acute and home care group Amana Healthcare from existing shareholders. It comes as Dubai adopts DRG payments in the hospital sector this year which should propel the post-acute sector upwards, and the group tells us it is set to open a facility there imminently.

DRGs in Dubai in 2019 will propel rehab sector

The introduction of diagnosis-related group (DRG) payments to Dubai's hospital sector in 2019 will lead to a boom in the nascent post-acute rehab market according to a local operator. 

TVM Capital is divesting, and investing

HBI hears that investment group TVM Capital will soon be looking to divest itself of its healthcare services assets, and is looking at fresh investments in the sector.

Median auction looks slow

Private equity and infrastructure funds are expected to submit bids for Median, the largest German rehabilitation group by the end of November. But touted financials look heavily-adjusted and smaller operators are saying that a new law enacted by the German parliament may spell trouble for the rehab sector, as Healthcare Europa reported in summer.

Paracelsus looking for new CEO

German rehab and acute hospital group Paracelsus Kliniken is interviewing candidates to replace former CEO Dr Michael Phillipi, who was appointed following investor Porterhouse's acquisition of the insolvent group in April, and died in September.

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