AMEOS Gruppe, Germany’s fourth largest hospital group by revenue, has opened a medical campus in Halberstadt, Saxony-Anhalt, to provide the clinical stage of medical degrees for 40 doctors a years, as part of a degree program which AMEOS has been running for the past three years in partnership with a Croatian university.
Tag Archives: Ameos
Sana set to win Offenbach
Sana has pipped Helios: it is now favoured to win the contract to functionally privatise Offenbach Hospital. We look at the terms, and whether there will be more privatisation in Germany and its neighbours.
April 29, 2013
German privatisation pipeline looks more like a garden hose
Pickings look thin in the push to privatise German hospitals, despite a recent win for market-leader Helios. Most attention right now is on the company's continuing battle with Sana for a contract for a 350-470 bed hospital at Bieberach.
November 29, 2012
Report: Psychiatry: The private sector expands across Europe
Across Europe, a nascent private sector is expanding into psychiatric care provision for the continent’s public payors. But with all major markets still stuck in the economic doldrums, are they fighting for a shrinking slice of the pie? Healthcare Europa takes a look at select markets to see how far private operators are making inroads into mental healthcare.
October 2, 2012
FREE BLOG What does Fresenius mean for private healthcare?
The price that Fresenius is paying for Rhoen is impressive and should help push up values in the German hospital market. It will, for instance, make it far easier for a group like hospital and psychiatric group Ameos or Sana, the hospital chain owned by the big private insurers, to float at a decent multiple.
May 4, 2012
Ameos finds new investor
Ameos, the German hospital and rehabilitation chain has finally found a new investor in private equity house Carlyle Group. We hear it has contribued an extra €200m of equity....
December 2, 2011
Ameos to sell soon
Ameos, the German hospital and psychiatry operator, is about to be sold to private equity....
September 20, 2011
Ameos appoints Commerzbank to raise capital
German hospital and pyschiatric home chain Ameos has appointed Commerzbank on a non-exclusive basis. CEO Axel Paeger denies rumours that Ameos is for sale and explains why it is looking for a capital increase....
June 30, 2011
All dressed up and nowhere to go
We report on the results of the top four German private hospital groups who together have a market-share by sales of around 7% of the total hospital sector and over a third of the private hospital market. Where do they go now?...
May 11, 2011
Interview: Axel Paeger, Chief Executive, AMEOS
In nine short years, Dr Axel Paeger has built AMEOS into one of Germany’s ten largest private hospital group with 2010 sales of €377m. AMEOS is unusual in many ways. Its main backer is not private equity or stockmarket investors but rather Quadriga, an investor representing family offices. AMEOS is looking beyond Germany and already is engaged in Poland and has a unit in Austria. We talk to Paeger about the AMEOS business model....
May 5, 2011
Asklepios to do bond issue but why do the big Germans need money?
As forecast here, Asklepios, one of the big three German hospital groups plans its first bond issue and hopes to raise around €200m-€300m. Analysts are asking why, as the privatization wave has failed in Germany. And that is likely to lead to a downward rating for Rhoen Klinikum....
September 9, 2010
No tsunami for Germany
A repeat of the mass hospital privatisations of 1995-2005 looks increasingly unlikely. In fact, there may be almost no privatisation in the next few years. This will force big German groups such as Rhoen Klinikum to look abroad argues JKan Hacker, managing partner at Oberender and Partner, a German healthcare services consultancy. ...
