Sep
06
Fresenius to Buy Spain’s Largest Private Hospital Operator
ByCreditJohannes Eisele/Reuters
LONDON — Fresenius, one of Europe’s largest health care providers, said on Tuesday that it had agreed to acquire IDC Salud Holding, Spain’s largest private hospital operator.
The deal would expand the operations of Fresenius’s Helios unit, which is already Germany’s largest hospital operator, by adding IDC Salud Holding, known as Quirónsalud, for 5.8 billion euros, or about $6.5 billion. It is the first acquisition outside Germany by the Fresenius Helios unit…