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Aspen Healthcare
Aspen Healthcare is a private medical company, established in 1988, based in the City of London. It is not connected with Aspen Pharmacare, the South African pharmaceutical company. It was a subsidiary of United Surgical Partners International. In early 2015, Welltower purchased all four of the company's London hospitals for £226 million. The hospitals were then leased back to Aspen which continues to operate them. The deal included Holly House Hospital, Highgate Private Hospital, Parkside Private Hospital and Cancer Centre London. They were leased back to Aspen for 25-year terms. Tenet Healthcare Tenet Healthcare Corporation is a for-profit multinational healthcare services company based in Dallas, Texas, United States. Through its brands, subsidiaries, joint ventures, and partnerships, including United Surgical Partners International (U ... bought the company in 2015. It sold the company to NMC Health in August 2018 for £10 million. It runs Highgate Private Hosp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aspen Pharmacare
Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Limited is a public multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Durban, South Africa. Founded in 1997, it listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in 1998 and purchased South African Druggists in 1999 before expanding into international markets. Currently the largest pharmaceutical company in Africa through aggressive mergers and expansion, with major manufacturing sites in locations such as Gqeberha in South Africa, Bad Oldesloe in Germany,https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/pharmaceuticalsandchemicals/5314756/GSK-expands-into-emerging-markets-with-Aspen-deal.html Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville in France, and Oss, Netherlands, Aspen is known for manufacturing and distributing branded pharmaceuticals as well as generic HIV/AIDS antiretrovirals (ARVs)https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/162/25995.html and cancer medications. Among other products, Aspen has also been involved in manufacturing the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Surgical Partners International
United Surgical Partners International (USPI) is an American ambulatory care company based in Dallas, Texas. It was founded by Don Steen in 1998. USPI currently is active in 28 states. USPI currently operates over 400 ambulatory facilities serving 9,000 physicians and 3.4 million patients annually. The company had partnerships with over 4,000 physicians and over 50 health systems in the United States, with over 19,000 employees. The company went public in 2001 and was taken private again in 2007. In April 2015, USPI and Tenet Healthcare entered into an agreement to create the nation's largest ambulatory surgery platform. The transaction was finalized in June 2015. History United Surgical Partners International was founded in 1998 by Don Steen along with the primary stockholder Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe. The first USPI outpatient surgery Outpatient surgery, also known as ambulatory surgery, day surgery, day case surgery, or same-day surgery, is surgery that does not requi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welltower
Welltower Inc. is a real estate investment trust that invests in healthcare infrastructure. Based on its 2021 revenue, it ranked 630th on the 2021 Fortune 1000, and is a component of the S&P 500. As of early 2021, the firm had an enterprise value of $50 billion and is the world's largest healthcare real estate investment trust. History The company was founded in 1970 by Bruce Thompson and Frederic D. Wolfe as the first healthcare focused real estate investment trust (REIT). The REIT structure is a tax status that allows commercial real estate income to pass through to shareholders without being taxed at the corporate level. The company was led by George Chapman from 1996 to 2014, when he retired and was succeeded by Thomas DeRosa. DeRosa served on the board for many years before becoming CEO; he has been associated with the company since 1992. DeRosa previously worked as vice chairman and chief financial officer of the Rouse Company before it merged with General Growth Properties. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenet Healthcare
Tenet Healthcare Corporation is a for-profit multinational healthcare services company based in Dallas, Texas, United States. Through its brands, subsidiaries, joint ventures, and partnerships, including United Surgical Partners International (USPI), the company operates 65 hospitals and over 450 healthcare facilities. Tenet also operates Conifer Health Solutions, which provides healthcare support services to health systems and other clients. Since its founding in 1969, Tenet has expanded significantly. Among other major acquisitions and formations, Tenet founded Conifer Health Solutions in 2008, MedPost Urgent Care in 2014, and in 2013 acquired Vanguard Health Systems, Inc., an investor-owned hospital company whose operations complemented Tenet's existing business. The acquisition created the third-largest investor-owned hospital company in the United States in terms of revenue and the third-largest in number of hospitals owned. In 2015, Tenet acquired USPI, which created the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NMC Health
NMC Health ( ar, مستشفى المركز الطبي الجديد) is a healthcare chain and distribution business in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The company is headquartered in Abu Dhabi and has branch offices in Dubai, Ajman, Al Ain and Northern Emirates. The company operates and manages over 200 facilities in 19 countries. The company was accused in 2019 of understating debt on its balance sheet and later revealed that debt facilities of $2.7 billion had not been reported. On 8 April 2020, NMC was placed into administration by a UK High Court judge Sebastian Prentis due to the insolvency of the company caused by alleged frauds committed by the founder and then-chairman of the board B. R. Shetty. History NMC Health was founded by B. R. Shetty in 1974 as the New Medical Centre in Abu Dhabi.Focus on qual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highgate Private Hospital
Highgate Private Hospital, in View Road, Highgate Private Hospital is run by Nuffield Health. History The hospital was established in 1988. The building was acquired by Health Care REIT, Inc. in 2015 along with Aspen Healthcare's three other London hospitals for £226 million and leased back to Aspen on a 25-year lease. The hospital featured in a reported legal case in tort, Batt v Highgate Private Hospital 004which established that a widower could not recover damages in respect of the cost of the cosmetic surgery which had resulted in his wife's death at the hospital. It was expanded during 2015 at a cost of £13 million to provide 43 en-suite patient rooms, four operating theatres, an Endoscopy Suite, Physiotherapy Suite, 15 outpatient rooms, and a private GP service. Neurosurgery services were expanded in 2013 with the recruitment of consultant neurosurgeon Mary Murphy. On 28 September 2021, it was announced that Highgate Private Hospital had become part of Nuffield Hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claremont Hospital
Claremont Hospital is a private hospital situated in the City of Sheffield, England. It is located at 401 Sandygate Road in the suburb of Crosspool. It is managed by Spire Healthcare, History Early history The Claremont Hospital was set up by the Sisters of the Institute of Our Lady of Mercy, a religious institute which had been set up in Ireland in 1831 and came to Sheffield in 1883. The original hospital was opened in 1921 and was situated close to the city centre on Claremont Place on a site where the Royal Hallamshire Hospital now stands. In 1953 the Claremont Hospital was forced to move to its present location at Crosspool because the land on which it was situated was needed for the first phase of development of the Hallamshire Hospital. The new home of the hospital on Sandygate Road was a large house which had been constructed in the 1890s, this now stands at the main entrance to the hospital with the hospital being greatly expanded to the rear since 1953. In 1986, the Sist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Providers Of NHS Services
The private provision of NHS services has been controversial since at least 1990. Keep Our NHS Public, NHS Support Federation and other groups have campaigned against the threat of privatisation, largely in England. The 1997 Labour Party manifesto made a specific commitment to end the Conservatives’ internal market in health care, but in government they retained the split between purchasers and providers of healthcare. In 2000 the Labour Government agreed ''A Concordat with the Private and Voluntary Health Care Provider Sector'' with the Independent Healthcare Association. The intention was to increase capacity, particularly in elective care, where private provision was used to bring down waiting lists, in critical care, and in intermediate care facilities. This was followed, in April 2002,by the introduction of prospective payment with nationally set prices for acute, elective activity under ‘payment by results’. Under patient choice, patients could opt for treatment by a pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |