Healthscope

Healthscope
Public (ASX: HSO)
Founded 1985
Headquarters 312 St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Services Private Healthcare
Divisions Hospitals, Medical Centres, Pathologies and Veterinary Pathology Services
Website http://www.healthscope.com.au/

Healthscope is an Australian company which operates private hospitals, a pathology business and medical centres. The company is headquartered in St. Kilda Road, Melbourne. The company operates medical/surgical hospitals as well as a number of psychiatric and rehabilitation clinics. It is one of Australia's largest human, veterinary, commercial and molecular pathology providers, and operates medical centres and specialised skin cancer clinics around the country.

History

Healthscope was founded in 1985 to acquire The Melbourne Clinic, a psychiatric facility in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. The company has since grown mainly through building and acquiring hospitals. It went public on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1994 in order to fund the A$75m acquisition of six hospitals in Adelaide and one in Darwin from SGIC, an insurance company.

During 2004 and 2005 the company underwent a strong growth phase. Healthscope got into the pathology business in late December 2004 with the acquisition of the Gribbles Group, formerly a publicly listed pathology company. In May 2005 it acquired another Australian publicly listed hospital operator, Nova Health. Also in May 2005 the company acquired a Singapore pathology company called Quest. In September 2005 it announced the acquisition of the Affinity group of hospitals. In October 2005 it acquired Primary Care Skin Cancer Clinic Group, a network of skin cancer clinics. And in December 2005 the company acquired the Sydney pathology company Davies Campbell de Lambert.

Hospitals and facilities run by Healthscope in 2014

Hospitals

Healthscope operates and manages 44 private hospitals in Australia, seven mental health facilities, six rehabilitation and extended care facilities.

QLD

• Allamanda Private Hospital
• Brisbane Private Hospital
• Pacific Private Hospital
• Peninsula Private Hospital
• Pine Rivers Private Hospital
• Sunnybank Private Hospital

NSW

• Campbelltown Private Hospital
• Lady Davidson Private Hospital
• Mosman Private Hospital
• Nepean Private Hospital
• Newcastle Private Hospital
• Norwest Private Hospital
• Prince of Wales Private Hospital
• Sydney Southwest Private Hospital
• The Hills Private Hospital
• The Sydney Clinic
• Tweed Day Surgery
ACT
• National Capital Private Hospital
VIC
• Bellbird Private Hospital
• Como Private Hospital
• Cotham Private Hospital
• Dorset Rehabilitation Centre
• Frankston Private Day Surgery
• Geelong Private Hospital
• John Fawkner Private Hospital
• Knox Private Hospital
• Melbourne Private Hospital
• North Eastern Rehabilitation Centre
• Northpark Private Hospital
• Peninsula Oncology Centre
• Ringwood Private Hospital
• The Geelong Clinic
• The Melbourne Clinic
• The Victoria Clinic
• The Victorian Rehabilitation Centre
TAS
• Hobart Private Hospital
• St Helen's Private Hospital (Mental Health facility)
SA
• Ashford Hospital
• Flinders Private Hospital
• Griffith Rehabilitation Hospital
• Parkwynd Private Hospital
• The Memorial Hospital
WA
• Mount Hospital
NT
• Darwin Private Hospital

Mental Health Services

Healthscope Hospitals is the largest operator of private inpatient mental health facilities in Australia with 14 hospitals providing care. Healthscope Hospitals provide treatment for mental health issues and for drug and alcohol abuse.

Healthscope Hospitals offering Mental Health Services

The programs available at Healthscope Hospitals include:

Rehabilitation Services

Healthscope Hospitals offering Rehabilitation Services

Healthscope Pathology

Healthscope operate just under 580 collection centres, with Pathology services available across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia.

Healthscope Medical Centres

Healthscope’s Medical Centre division includes more than 57 medical centres and specialist skin clinics across Australia, as well as one specialist breast diagnostic clinic- Sydney Breast Clinic.

Healthscope Independence Services

Healthscope Independence Services is a provider of unique accommodation, attendant care and in-home services to individuals with acquired brain injuries, other disabilities or complex conditions and others leaving hospital requiring extra support at home. Healthscope Independence Services provides long-term, short-term, transitional and respite options in metropolitan Melbourne, regional Victoria, New South Wales and Darwin in the Northern Territory.

Gribbles Veterinary Patholgy

Established in 1989, Gribbles Veterinary Pathology has grown to be the largest veterinary pathology organisation in Australasia, providing veterinary diagnostic and analytical services throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Ownership

Healthscope was a public company whose stock was traded on the Australian Stock Exchange under the stock code HSP. The company completed an Initial Public Offering in 1994 when it raised A$70 million by issuing 40 million shares at A$1.75 each. In 2010, Healthscope was acquired by The Carlyle Group. It was managed by TPG and The Carlyle Group and was later re-added to the ASX on 28 July 2014. Today Healthscope stock is part of the S&P/ASX 200 Index under the stock code HSO.

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