Columbia Asia Expands to New Continent with Columbia Africa
by Shrutee K/DNS
Bangalore,
India:
Columbia Asia, one of the largest and fastest-growing healthcare companies in
Asia, is expanding its operations to Africa to serve the rising demand from the
continent’s middle class for affordable, modern and efficient healthcare
facilities.The company’s first facility in Africa – a
5,300-square-foot multispecialty clinic and diagnostic center – opened this
week in Nairobi, Kenya, a capital city with more than 3 million people and in
the midst of a surge in foreign direct investment. The clinic is operating under a new brand,
Columbia Africa.
Columbia Asia, part of Seattle-based
Columbia Pacific Management, has 27 hospitals and one clinic in India,
Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia, built with
an innovative business model focused on serving a rapidly growing middle class
with modern and efficient multispecialty facilities located close to where patients
live and work.The new clinic in Nairobi specializes in
family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, gynecology, general surgery,
orthopedics, ophthalmology and dental care. The facility offers health checks, as well as
telemedicine to allow patients to consult with specialist doctors at Columbia
Asia hospitals.
The Nairobi clinic also has a patient
services center to facilitate patients travelling for surgery at Columbia Asia
hospitals in Asia, which had already been receiving a significant number of
patients from East Africa. “Africa has become a growing market for
us, as patients are increasingly seeking multispecialty, affordable healthcare services
delivered at international standards,” said
John Northen, Group Chief Executive Officer of Columbia Asia. “Kenya is the
economic, commercial and logistical hub for all of East Africa, with Nairobi as
a major center of growth and foreign investment, so the city was a great fit
for our first Columbia Africa facility.”
Columbia Asia opened its first hospital in
Malaysia in 1996 and over two decades has developed one of the largest hospital
companies in Asia, with a focus on high-quality, affordable, standardized
care. Columbia
Asia is the only healthcare provider in Asia to operate hospitals in so many
countries under a single brand, and one of the few large, multinational
providers in Asia to build the vast majority of its hospitals itself.
With the addition of the Columbia Africa
clinic, the company has 10,000 employees serving more than 2.5 million patients
a year, with 2,200 beds across 27 hospitals and two clinics.
To learn more about Columbia Pacific
Management, go to columbiapacificmanagement.com.
About Columbia Pacific Management
Columbia Pacific
Management (CPM), based in Seattle, oversees an international healthcare
business that develops and operates hospitals, clinics and senior housing in
Asia. With locations in China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia and Vietnam,
CPM’s operating companies provide healthcare and senior care services in
markets making up more than half the world’s population. All of these countries
have rapidly aging populations, rising middle- and upper-middle-class
populations, an under-supply of quality healthcare and senior care facilities,
and increasing rates of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, cancer and
cardiac diseases – creating an unprecedented demand for world-class healthcare
services and senior housing.
The company’s affiliates include Columbia Asia, operating hospitals in
India and Southeast Asia; Columbia
China, which is building a network of hospitals and clinics in China; Columbia Africa, which operates a
clinic in Nairobi, Kenya; Cascade
Healthcare, which operates senior care facilities in China; and Remote Medical International, which
provides medical services and supplies to challenging locations around the
globe.
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