Innovation in European healthcare – what can Sweden learn? - LIF

Increasing number of mergers and acquisitions
and beginning Internationalization
• An increasing number of privatizations of
community hospitals during the last 10 years
• Growing number of mergers also in the private
not for profit sector
• First acquisitions of big private hospital groups
by international companies (Fresenius AG
bought Helios Kliniken GmbH in 2005; Helios
bought Humaine Kliniken GmbH in 2006 and
Damp Holding in 2012)
• First German university hospital (Giessen-
Marburg) was bought by Rhön Klinikum AG in
the beginning of 2006
• Only few international hospital groups entered
the German market:
– Ameos AG (Switzerland; since 2003)
– Capio (Sweden; since 2006)
42
Public (1)
Private non for
profit (2) Private (3)
42
hospitals
beds