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Report: Going international is tough for top US hospital chains

Royalty and celebrities from all over the world fly into the US to be treated by America’s not-for-profit hospital groups, which are among the biggest and most popular in the world. Most of these powerful international brands have all expanded abroad. Groups like Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, MD Anderson and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have affiliated sites dotted around the world.

Interview: Ahmed Badreldin, Partner, The Abraaj Group

No other private equity house can match Abraaj’s experience of investing in healthcare services in the developing world. A lead investor in Turkish hospital group Acibadem, which was then sold to IHH, the international hospital chain, Abraaj has rolled out a lab buy and build in Egypt, Africa and the Middle East, has recently started a similar play building a Pan-North African chain of hospitals and has also invested in half a dozen hospital and outpatient clinics across sub-Saharan Africa. Ahmed will be speaking at Healthcare Europa 2015 on April 28 in London.

Fresenius set to scoop up European lab group

Dialysis group Fresenius MC is starting due diligence to buy a large European lab group, say two sources. The move would enable Fresenius to build a new leg alongside its dialysis business, which faltered in 2013.

Interview: Dag Andersson, CEO, Diaverum

With close to 300 dialysis centres in 19 countries, Diaverum's Dag Andersson claims to run “the most global healthcare service in the world”. The company is majority-owned by private equity house Bridgepoint, which hired JP Morgan in January 2013 to review the company's strategic options. We speak to Andersson about Diaverum's future.

Interview: Dr Hasan Kus, Healthcare Business Development President, Anadolu Group

A third of all sales at Anadolu Medical Center (AMC), a JCI accredited hospital in Istanbul with 209 beds which is affiliated to John Hopkins in the USA, now comes from healthcare tourism. Last year foreign patients rose to 5,400. The main hospital is not-for-profit and part of the Anadolu Foundation, owned by Anadolu Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the country, but plans are afoot to put the healthcare tourism arm into a for-profit operation. Anadolu has just constructed a 82 bed on campus hotel to take outpatients and their families and is planning to add outpatient facilities in Romania and other client countries. The campus will also soon boast a University facility for teaching doctors, run by Anadolu Foundation....

FREE BLOG WHY MUNICH beats Harley Street

It is fascinating to compare private healthcare in Germany and Britain. And it is not hard to see why folk on Harley Street in London admit that they have lost a lot of international business to Munich and other big German centres...

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