Life Healthcare Hospital Group

Life Healthcare Hospital Group - Overview

Life Healthcare is a leading private hospital operator in South Africa and primarily serves the market for privately insured individuals, representing approximately eight million people. The group provides mainly acute care, high technology private hospital services.

Life Healthcare was founded in 1983, operating hospitals for more than 25 years. Over this time Life has grown through acquisitions and the construction of new hospitals during the 1980s and early 1990s, a period during which the South African private hospital industry was characterised by expansion and fragmentation.

Hospital Divisions

Life Hospitals (7,665 beds)

Life Healthcare’s hospital division currently owns and operates 56 acute care facilities, with a comprehensive geographic spread in seven South African provinces and Botswana, and also has a shareholding in an additional seven hospitals. Complementary to the group is a support base of over 2,700 doctors and specialists. Life hospitals provide treatment of patients for elective care and emergency care and generally provide treatment on an inpatient basis only. In conjunction with supporting medical professionals, Life hospitals offer access to:

• Hospitals - 56
• Beds
  • Total - 7,665
  • ICU - 664
  • HCU - 316
• Operating theatre units - 308
• Cardiac units - 12
• Maternity units - 35
• Fertility clinics - 7
• Rehabilitation units
  • Facilities - 6
  • Beds - 229
• Renal dialysis units
  • Facilities - 4
  • Stations - 40
• Mental health units
  • Facilities - 6
  • Beds - 172
• Emergency units - 40
• Life Esidimeni
  • Hospitals - 12
  • Beds - 4,171
• Life Occupational Health
  • Clinics - 289
  • Employees covered - 155,000

The hospitals division also includes specialised rehabilitation, renal dialysis and mental healthcare facilities:

Life Rehabilitation (six adult units, two paediatric units)

Life Rehabilitation is the leading provider of private acute rehabilitation services in the country, operating 229 beds – almost 50% of all private acute rehabilitation beds in South Africa. The units offer acute outcome driven physical and cognitive rehabilitation for patients disabled by stroke, brain or spinal trauma and other disabling conditions or injuries.

Life Rehabilitation operates six dedicated adult units, spread throughout four provinces. In addition two dedicated paediatric units are based at Life Rehabilitation units in KwaZulu-Natal and Johannesburg, respectively.

Mental Health Units

Mental healthcare is a niche line of business for the group and this specialised care is provided at six mental healthcare treatment facilities, based in the Eastern Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal and comprising 172 dedicated beds. These units are either stand-alone facilities or located within the acute care hospitals, and provide either inpatient or outpatient services.

Renal Units

Life provides acute and chronic renal dialysis services through a network of four facilities situated in the Eastern Cape and Gauteng, and offering 40 dialysis stations. A fifth facility is opening at Life Mercantile Hospital in Port Elizabeth on 1 January 2011.

Hospitals

Life's extensive hospital network includes 64 hospitals (of which 57 are majority owned by Life Healthcare and another seven in which the group holds substantial minority ownership), providing a range of healthcare services throughout South Africa. Life Healthcare has hospitals in seven of the country’s nine provinces, and in the country’s most populous metropolitan areas, including Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, East London and Bloemfontein. Life Healthcare operates a range of facilities adapted to meet the local demand in the various regions of the country, including high technology, multi-disciplinary hospitals, community hospitals and specialised stand-alone facilities to provide the appropriate scope of healthcare services.

Life Bedford Gardens Hospital	Johannesburg, South Africa
Life Brenthurst Hospital	Johannesburg, South Africa
Life Chatsmed Garden Hospital	Durban, South Africa
Life Kingsbury Hospital	Cape Town, South Africa