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A little heart at the center of a complex surgery

For more than 20 years, Fresenius Helios’ Leipzig Heart Center has been providing highest quality cardiac care – sometimes to very young patients.
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Health Tourism

Fresenius Vamed’s nine thermal spa and wellness resorts have succeeded in bridging the gap between preventive medicine and health care tourism.
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On duty in disaster zones

Fresenius employees help patients – and each other – after catastrophic hurricanes.
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Crucial lessons learned

Faced with one of the ‘superbugs’ that pose a huge health threat worldwide, Fresenius Helios turned to advanced hygiene management.
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News

Fresenius Medical Care Ventures invests in Israeli medical device company

July 16, 2018Fresenius Medical Care

Fresenius Medical Care successfully places €500 million Euro notes

Fresenius Medical Care today successfully placed notes with an aggregate principal amount of €500 million.
July 04, 2018Fresenius Medical Care
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Fresenius Helios to partner with first online medical studies program

Fresenius Helios will take responsibility for practical instruction as part of the first worldwide digitalized medical studies program. The new course of study meets European certification standards and will start in the winter semester 2018/2019 at the EDU College of Medicine, Malta. Theoretical components of a bachelor’s and follow-on master’s program will be available solely via an online platform. Students will be networked into learning communities taught by faculty. About one-third of the course is practical instruction that will take place in hospitals operated by Fresenius Helios in Germany. The program initially will be limited to 75 students. The long-term goal is up to 3,000 students.

July 03, 2018Fresenius Helios

Fresenius Medical Care completes divestment of Sound Inpatient Physicians Holdings

Fresenius Medical Care today announced the closing of the divestiture of Sound Inpatient Physicians Holdings, LLC (Sound) to an investment consortium led by Summit Partners as of June 28, 2018.
June 28, 2018Fresenius Medical Care
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Fresenius Kabi expanding operations at UK site

Fresenius Kabi is expanding its production and warehouse capacity in Runcorn, England, to meet increasing demand in United Kingdom’s homecare market and from UK and Ireland hospitals. The expansion’s first stage will be a new distribution and operations center, scheduled to open in early 2019. A second services unit for producing aseptically compounded parenteral nutrition products will be completed by 2020. Fresenius Kabi will invest over €9 million in the expansion.

June 27, 2018Fresenius Kabi

Fresenius Medical Care and Humacyte announce strategic global partnership supported by a $150M equity investment

June 11, 2018Fresenius Medical Care
Fresenius Helios Capital Markets Day: Cross-border knowledge exchange creates basis for further growth

June 08, 2018Fresenius Helios

Fresenius transfers inpatient rehabilitation business from Fresenius Helios to Fresenius Vamed

June 06, 2018Fresenius Vamed
Annual General Meeting: Fresenius on track to continue strong growth, 25th straight dividend increase approved

May 18, 2018Fresenius

Fresenius Medical Care forecasts continued strong growth – Annual General Meeting approves 21st straight dividend increase

May 17, 2018Fresenius Medical Care
Fresenius holds topping-out ceremony for new ‘EK3’ building at headquarters in Bad Homburg

May 09, 2018Fresenius

Fresenius makes excellent start to 2018, with strong sales and net income growth in constant currency

May 03, 2018Fresenius
Fresenius Medical Care remains on track for another record year after solid first quarter 2018

May 03, 2018Fresenius Medical Care

Fresenius Medical Care Announces Leadership Change in EMEA

Effective 1 September 2018, Ms. Katarzyna Mazur-Hofsäss, Ph.D., will assume the Management Board position in charge of EMEA.
May 02, 2018Fresenius Medical Care
Fresenius Medical Care holds groundbreaking ceremony for new technology development center in Schweinfurt

April 27, 2018Fresenius Medical Care

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Fresenius Helios hospital gets highest rating in Spain

Jiménez Díaz Foundation University Hospital in Madrid has again been awarded the EFQM Recognized for Excellence award with the maximum five stars, this time also receiving the highest rating of any hospital in Spain. The 667-bed facility earned more than 650 points on the rating scale used by the European Foundation for Quality Management during a comprehensive management and process evaluation earlier this year. In the award presentation, the EFQM cited Jiménez Díaz Foundation University Hospital’s intensive focus on patient care, as well as its continuous improvements in treatments and the use of medical technology. This leading teaching hospital is part of the Quirónsalud group, the Spanish unit of Fresenius Helios.

April 27, 2018Fresenius Helios
Fresenius Medical Care wins Red Dot design award for advanced bloodline system used in hemodialysis

April 24, 2018Fresenius Medical Care

Fresenius terminates merger agreement with Akorn

April 22, 2018Fresenius Kabi
Fresenius Medical Care releases preliminary Q1 figures

April 22, 2018Fresenius Medical Care

Fresenius Medical Care sells Sound Inpatient Physicians Holdings for $2.15 billion

Fresenius Medical Care today announced an important strategic step to sharpen its U.S. Care Coordination profile with the signing of a definitive agreement to divest its controlling interest in Sound Inpatient Physicians Holdings, LLC to an investment consortium led by Summit Partners, for total transaction proceeds of ...
April 21, 2018Fresenius Medical Care
Fresenius Kabi expands production site for medical devices in Dominican Republic

April 20, 2018Fresenius Kabi

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Fresenius Helios opens new ICU in Tenerife

Quirónsalud Tenerife Hospital has opened a new intensive care unit, equipped with the latest medical equipment for treating as many as six critically ill patients at a time. Quirónsalud, the Spanish hospital group that is part of Fresenius Helios, invested more than €1 million in the 400-square-meter (4,300-square-foot) ICU.

April 06, 2018Fresenius Helios
Fresenius starts work on new R&D building in Bad Homburg

March 22, 2018Fresenius

Potentialpark study 2018 shows Fresenius provides Germany’s best online offering for job applicants

March 06, 2018Fresenius
Fresenius remains on growth course after 14 straight record years

February 26, 2018Fresenius

Fresenius Medical Care achieves record results in 2017 and targets strong net income growth in 2018

February 26, 2018Fresenius Medical Care
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Fresenius Helios expands two hospitals in Germany

Fresenius Helios recently opened a 130-bed building at the company’s hospital in Dachau, a city near Munich. The new structure is part of a €55 million renovation and expansion program that will include a modernization of the existing hospital building over the next two years. Meanwhile, in the northern German city of Nienburg/Weser, work has started on a building that will almost double the size of the emergency department at Fresenius Hospital Mittelweser. About €2.3 million is being invested in this project, which is scheduled for completion in the autumn.

February 20, 2018Fresenius Helios

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Fresenius Helios presents inaugural science prize

Fresenius Helios has presented the new Helios Science Prize for outstanding research by employees that contributes to improved treatment quality. The three winners all work at hospitals in Germany and were honored for their work in different areas of medicine. The prize, which comes with a cash award, went to Dr. Jitka Veldema of Helios Hospital Kipfenberg (for her work on stroke rehabilitation), Prof. Dr. Alexander Kreuter of Helios St. Elisabeth Hospital in Oberhausen (cancer diagnosis in HIV patients), and Dr. Patrick Weil of Helios University Hospital in Wuppertal (testicular cancer therapy).

February 02, 2018Fresenius Helios
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S&P lifts Fresenius' rating outlook to positive

Standard & Poor’s has revised Fresenius’ corporate credit outlook to positive from stable in late December 2017. The corporate credit rating was affirmed. Hence, Fresenius is now rated BBB- with positive outlook by Standard & Poor’s. Fresenius is rated investment grade by all of the three leading rating agencies Standard & Poor’s, Moody's and Fitch.

January 19, 2018Fresenius

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Fresenius Vamed wins awards for spa and wellness facilities

VAMED Vitality World has been named the “World’s Best Thermal Spa & Medical Wellness Operator 2017” at the World Spa Awards. Three VAMED Vitality World facilities – St. Martins Thermal Spa & Lodge and Thermal Spa Laa Hotel & Spa, both in Austria, and Aquaworld Resort Budapest in the Hungarian capital – also won in their individual categories. VAMED Vitality World, part of Fresenius Vamed, operates a total of nine spa and health resorts in Austria and Hungary.

January 16, 2018Fresenius Vamed