VAMED Vitality World has been named the “World’s Best Thermal Spa & Medical Wellness Operator 2018” at the World Spa Awards. Four VAMED Vitality World facilities – Geinberg5 Private Villas, Aqua Dome Therme Längenfeld, Therme Laa Hotel & Spa, all in Austria, and Aquaworld Resort Budapest in the Hungarian capital – also won in their individual categories. VAMED Vitality World, part of Fresenius Vamed, operates a total of nine spa and health resorts in Austria and Hungary.
Fresenius is reorganizing the Group’s inpatient rehabilitation business, to create the conditions for the continued growth of Fresenius Helios and Fresenius Vamed. On July 1, 2018, 38 health care facilities and 13 service companies in Germany specializing in inpatient post-acute and nursing care, which are now operated by Fresenius Helios, will be transferred to Fresenius Vamed. This will strengthen Fresenius Vamed’s position as a leading provider of post-acute care in Europe. Fresenius Helios, meanwhile, will focus even more strongly on the acute care hospital business and its continued internationalization.
The transaction has a total volume of €485 million, including assumed net debt of €15 million. It will be financed Group-internally. This year, the inpatient post-acute care business that is being transferred is expected to generate about €460 million in sales and an EBIT of around €37 million.
As part of the transfer, Fresenius Vamed is taking on all of the approximately 7,700 employees of the post-acute care business.
With regard to the respective core competencies of Fresenius Vamed and Fresenius Helios, the two Fresenius business segments will further intensify their cooperation, which has already proven successful in Germany and Spain.
Stephan Sturm, CEO of Fresenius, said: “For Fresenius, post-acute care is and will remain an important component of the treatment we provide to our patients. And now by bundling our great expertise in this area within Fresenius Vamed, we are building a platform for further international growth. We are also putting Fresenius Helios’ on a stronger growth footing, with an even clearer focus on acute care. In addition, we are facilitating even more intensive cooperation between these two business segments, for the benefit of our patients.”
Fresenius Vamed is already a leading post-acute care provider in Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, and entered the British market last year. After the transaction, Fresenius Vamed will have a total of 63 inpatient health care facilities in five European countries.
Even after the transfer of its inpatient post-acute care business to Fresenius Vamed, Fresenius Helios will remain Europe’s largest private hospital operator, with 137 hospitals and about 100,000 employees in Germany and Spain. The strategic focus of Fresenius Helios will remain its acute care hospitals, as well as the outpatient acute care - including preventative medicine - and outpatient post-acute care.
As a consequence of the transfer, Fresenius is adjusting the 2018 outlook for Fresenius Helios and Fresenius Vamed. Fresenius Helios now expects EBIT growth of 5% to 8% (7% to 10% previously). Its organic sales growth outlook of 3% to 6% remains unchanged. Fresenius Vamed is now expecting EBIT growth of 32% to 37%1 (5% to 10% previously). Fresenius Vamed’s organic sales growth forecast remains unchanged at 5% to 10%.
The transaction will not significantly affect the 2018 business results of the Fresenius Group, which accordingly confirms its guidance2 for the current business year. Group sales are expected to increase by 5% to 8%3 in constant currency. Net income4,5 is expected to grow by 6% to 9% in constant currency. Excluding expenditures for the further development of the biosimilars business, net income4,6 is expected to grow by ~10% to 13% in constant currency.
1 Expected EBIT of the inpatient post-acute care business in H2/2018: ~€20 million
2 Excluding effects of the Akorn, NxStage and Sound Physicians transactions
3 2017 base adjusted for IFRS 15 adoption (deduction of €486 million at Fresenius Medical Care)
4 Net income attributable to shareholders of Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA
5 2017 base: €1,816 million; 2018 before special items (i.e., transaction-related effects); including expenditures for further development of biosimilars business (€43 million after tax in FY/17 and ~€120 million after tax in FY/18)
6 2017 base: €1,859 million; 2018 before special items (i.e., transaction-related effects)
This release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Future results could differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements due to certain factors, e.g. changes in business, economic and competitive conditions, regulatory reforms, results of clinical trials, foreign exchange rate fluctuations, uncertainties in litigation or investigative proceedings, and the availability of financing. Fresenius does not undertake any responsibility to update the forward-looking statements in this release.
VAMED Vitality World has been named the “World’s Best Thermal Spa & Medical Wellness Operator 2017” at the World Spa Awards. Three VAMED Vitality World facilities – St. Martins Thermal Spa & Lodge and Thermal Spa Laa Hotel & Spa, both in Austria, and Aquaworld Resort Budapest in the Hungarian capital – also won in their individual categories. VAMED Vitality World, part of Fresenius Vamed, operates a total of nine spa and health resorts in Austria and Hungary.
VAMED Vitality World has been named the “World’s Best Thermal Spa & Medical Wellness Operator 2017” at the World Spa Awards. Three VAMED Vitality World facilities – St. Martins Thermal Spa & Lodge and Thermal Spa Laa Hotel & Spa, both in Austria, and Aquaworld Resort Budapest in the Hungarian capital – also won in their individual categories. VAMED Vitality World, part of Fresenius Vamed, operates a total of nine spa and health resorts in Austria and Hungary.
Fresenius Vamed has acquired a rehabilitation clinic in Switzerland, its third in the country. The clinic in Seewis has about 75 beds and specializes in heart disease, internal medicine and psychosomatic illnesses. Fresenius Vamed is now active in all major areas of rehabilitative medicine in Switzerland, with a clinic in Zihlschlacht that specializes in neurology and one in Dussnang specializing in orthopedics and geriatrics.
Fresenius Vamed has acquired a rehabilitation clinic in Switzerland, its third in the country. The clinic in Seewis has about 75 beds and specializes in heart disease, internal medicine and psychosomatic illnesses. Fresenius Vamed is now active in all major areas of rehabilitative medicine in Switzerland, with a clinic in Zihlschlacht that specializes in neurology and one in Dussnang specializing in orthopedics and geriatrics.
Fresenius Vamed has opened the Institute for Gender Medicine in cooperation with the Medical University of Vienna. This new research institute, in the Lower Austria town of Gars am Kamp, will focus on the different needs of female and male patients, for example in the interpretation of disease symptoms. Fresenius Vamed will be able to use the institute’s research findings to develop tailored treatment offerings in areas such as prevention and rehabilitation. The Institute for Gender Medicine complements initiatives for individualized medical care already being carried out by the VAMED International Medical Board and its approximately 650 physicians.
Fresenius Vamed has opened the Institute for Gender Medicine in cooperation with the Medical University of Vienna. This new research institute, in the Lower Austria town of Gars am Kamp, will focus on the different needs of female and male patients, for example in the interpretation of disease symptoms. Fresenius Vamed will be able to use the institute’s research findings to develop tailored treatment offerings in areas such as prevention and rehabilitation. The Institute for Gender Medicine complements initiatives for individualized medical care already being carried out by the VAMED International Medical Board and its approximately 650 physicians.
Fresenius Vamed will realize a 350-bed building at University Hospital St. Pölten, in Austria. Working with a partner company, Fresenius Vamed will be the general contractor on the €176 million project. The new building will have some 21,000 square meters (226,000 square feet) of floor space, housing a range of specialist wards. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2019.
Fresenius Vamed will realize a 350-bed building at University Hospital St. Pölten, in Austria. Working with a partner company, Fresenius Vamed will be the general contractor on the €176 million project. The new building will have some 21,000 square meters (226,000 square feet) of floor space, housing a range of specialist wards. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2019.