New Ortho Center opening in Skåne
Global Health Partner is today opening a new orthopaedic clinic in Lund, Ortho Center Skåne. Leading doctors in the region have been hired and the clinic is fully equipped to perform all kinds of orthopaedic outpatient surgery. “We see great opportunities for our businesses in Skåne and it feels incredibly exciting to now also be able to open a unit that is a completely new care provider within the framework of highly specialised hospital care in Skåne,” says Per Båtelson, Global Health Partner’s CEO.
Ortho Center Skåne shares premises with Bariatric Center Skåne, which opened its obesity operation business in Lund in the middle of June. The premises contain both a doctors’ office and a surgical unit with bed capacity and the clinic is fully equipped to perform knee arthroscopy, ligament surgery, shoulder surgery, hand surgery and basic foot surgery. The doctor medically responsible is Pär Herbertsson, who is a specialist in sports injuries. Together with Leif Swärd, partner and co-owner of Ortho Center IFK-Kliniken in Gothenburg, leading specialists in the region have been hired for the business, whose main focus will be on the insurance market.
The clinic is a branch of Ortho Center IFK-Kliniken in Gothenburg, which means that the same agreements with the purchasers of care apply.
Global Health Partner runs businesses within sports surgery and prosthetic surgery through Service Line Orthopaedics. In 2009 the two clinics, Ortho Center Stockholm and Ortho Center IFK-Kliniken in Gothenburg, together performed almost 1,100 hip and knee prosthetic operations and 2,200 outpatient orthopaedic operations, and had almost 14,000 doctors’ office visits. Within the framework of the free choice of health care provider, Ortho Center Stockholm has a market share of just over 20 percent in Stockholm regarding hip and knee prosthetic surgery. Ortho Center IFK-Kliniken works primarily in the area of outpatient arthroscopy procedures in knees, hips and shoulders and its business has a very good reputation in the sports world.
1 September 2010
Gothenburg, Sweden
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