HBI Deals+Insights / Healthcare Reform

Private poacher Batelson turns public gamekeeper

Who’d have thought it? The former CEO of Capio, the international private hospital chain has just been made chairman of Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, the largest and most prestigious university hospital in the Nordic region. Batelson says that university hospitals, like business schools, are now competing internationally for patients, staff and budgets.

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