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The future is purple

‘Purple Truck‘ enables Aborigines to visit their home communities - Fresenius Medical Care-backed project brings dialysis care to Australian outback
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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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More ‘Quality of Life’ in clinics

Fresenius Medical Care Argentina patients enjoy fitness and therapy activities during treatments.
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Ready to help the littlest ones

Some children have to fight for life, right from birth: A day on the Neonatology ward of HELIOS Hospital Schwerin, Germany.
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Brief News
Fresenius Vamed opens Institute for Gender Medicine

Fresenius Vamed has opened the Institute for Gender Medicine in cooperation with the Medical University of Vienna. This new research institute, in the Lower Austria town of Gars am Kamp, will focus on the different needs of female and male patients, for example in the interpretation of disease symptoms. Fresenius Vamed will be able to use the institute’s research findings to develop tailored treatment offerings in areas such as prevention and rehabilitation. The Institute for Gender Medicine complements initiatives for individualized medical care already being carried out by the VAMED International Medical Board and its approximately 650 physicians.

October 19, 2017Fresenius Vamed

Brief News
Fresenius Helios expands university hospital in Madrid

Quirónsalud, the Spanish hospital group that is part of Fresenius Helios, is undertaking a major expansion of University Hospital Quirónsalud Madrid. A new, 6,000-square-meter (almost 65,000-square-foot) wing scheduled for completion by next summer will add 52 new beds, bringing the hospital’s total to 288. The expansion will also include 25 doctors’ offices, nine resuscitation rooms and three delivery rooms, as well as two hybrid operating rooms that can be used both for conventional operations and for minimally invasive surgical procedures – so-called “keyhole surgery.” All expansion and modernization measures should be completed by the end of 2018. The total investment is about €31 million.

October 04, 2017Fresenius Helios
Fresenius lays cornerstone for new building at headquarters in Bad Homburg

September 29, 2017Fresenius

Fresenius Medical Care divests Shiel Medical Laboratory to Quest Diagnostics

September 28, 2017Fresenius Medical Care
Brief News
2018 DRG inflator for German hospitals set at 2.97%

The price increase for hospital services in Germany has been set at 2.97% for 2018. This is in line with the level of past years.

September 15, 2017Fresenius Helios

Brief News
Fresenius Medical Care expands production site in Malaysia

Fresenius Medical Care has expanded its regional manufacturing plant in Bandar Enstek, Malaysia. Dato' Seri Dr. Chen Chaw Min, Secretary General of the Malaysian Ministry of Health graced the opening ceremony. The plant is a state-of-the-art facility and will be Fresenius Medical Care's regional manufacturing hub for Southeast Asia. In addition to supplying high-quality hemodialysis concentrates and disinfectants, the plant produces peritoneal dialysis (PD) products necessary for advanced continuous ambulatory PD treatment.

September 15, 2017Fresenius Medical Care
Fresenius Kabi marks 20-year anniversary of Friedberg production site – Logistics center expansion planned

September 08, 2017Fresenius Kabi

Fresenius Kabi completes acquisition of Merck KGaA’s biosimilars business

September 01, 2017Fresenius Kabi
Brief News
Fresenius refinances Credit Agreement successfully – S&P rates bonds now investment grade

The amended 2013 Credit Agreement streamlines Fresenius’ financing structure by replacing the existing senior secured facilities with unsecured facilities. Concurrently, the guarantor structure was aligned, with Fresenius SE & Co KGaA now being sole guarantor. The Credit Agreement has an aggregate amount of approximately €3.8 billion and consists of revolving facilities and term loans with maturities in 2021 and 2022. The transaction was well received by investors and substantially oversubscribed. On the basis of the unsecured structure and consistent with the corporate credit rating of Fresenius, S&P has raised the rating of the Fresenius bonds to BBB- from BB+.

August 24, 2017Fresenius

Brief News
Fresenius Helios invests in German hospital network

Fresenius Helios continues to invest in the expansion and modernization of its hospitals and clinics. HELIOS Clinic Geesthacht, located just east of Hamburg, has opened an extension with 20 additional neurological rehabilitation places for young people. The investment in the specialist clinic for neurology and neurological rehabilitation is €4.6 million. In the state of Saxony, meanwhile, work has started on a new building for the emergency ward at HELIOS Hospital Leisnig. This €3.3 million project is scheduled for completion in autumn 2018.

August 22, 2017Fresenius Helios
Fresenius Medical Care to acquire NxStage Medical, Inc. to strengthen its vertically integrated dialysis business

August 07, 2017Fresenius Medical Care

Fresenius confirms its guidance after a strong second quarter with double-digit sales and earnings growth

August 01, 2017Fresenius
Fresenius Medical Care delivers another quarter of strong revenue growth

August 01, 2017Fresenius Medical Care

Unicyte AG, regenerative medicine unit of Fresenius Medical Care, appoints world-leading experts to Scientific Advisory Board

July 25, 2017Fresenius Medical Care
Fresenius appoints Rachel Empey as Chief Financial Officer

July 21, 2017Fresenius

Brief News
Fresenius Helios expands hospital near Berlin

Fresenius Helios is investing more than €18 million to expand the company’s hospital in the German town of Bad Saarow, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) east of Berlin. The project at HELIOS Hospital Bad Saarow includes construction of a new building that will add bed capacity to meet growing demand, and an expansion of the radiology department. The construction is scheduled for completion in spring 2019.

July 20, 2017Fresenius Helios
Akorn shareholders approve merger agreement with Fresenius Kabi - Closing expected latest by early 2018

July 20, 2017Fresenius Kabi

Fresenius Medical Care successfully amends and extends its credit agreement, ahead of schedule

Fresenius Medical Care has successfully refinanced its existing senior secured credit agreement, originally maturing in 2019.
July 12, 2017Fresenius Medical Care
Fresenius Kabi expands production site in Portugal

July 06, 2017Fresenius Kabi

Brief News
Fresenius wins award for Quirónsalud acquisition

Fresenius was presented yesterday with the Corporate Finance Award for the company's acquisition of Quirónsalud, Spain’s largest private hospital operator. The award is given annually by the major German business daily Börsen-Zeitung for transactions judged to be outstanding in both strategical and financial terms. Fresenius won in the Large Caps category, which groups major companies. With the Quirónsalud acquisition, the Börsen-Zeitung said, “Fresenius succeeded in making a quantum leap in the hospital business."

June 23, 2017Fresenius
Fresenius Medical Care sees excellent prospects for further growth and launches a new Global Efficiency Program at its Capital Markets Day 2017

June 08, 2017Fresenius Medical Care

Fresenius Medical Care introduces new pure bicarbonate buffer peritoneal dialysis fluids

June 06, 2017Fresenius Medical Care
Brief News
Fresenius Helios opens new hospital facility in northern Germany

HELIOS Hospital Wesermarsch has gone into operation in a newly built facility in the northern German town of Nordenham. The new hospital building has 120 patient beds, three operating rooms and a hybrid cardiac catheterization lab. Capacity can be increased to 235 beds, if needed. Fresenius Helios invested €36 million in the facility, which took about three years to build, with the County of Wesermarsch contributing an additional €10 million.

May 22, 2017Fresenius Helios

Fresenius Annual General Meeting: 2017 guidance confirmed, 24th straight dividend increase approved

May 12, 2017Fresenius
Moody’s upgrades Fresenius Medical Care’s credit rating to investment grade

May 12, 2017Fresenius Medical Care

Fresenius Medical Care confirms growth targets – Annual General Meeting approves 20th consecutive dividend increase

May 11, 2017Fresenius Medical Care
Fresenius is off to an excellent start to the year with strong sales and earnings growth

May 03, 2017Fresenius

Fresenius Medical Care delivers strong first quarter 2017

May 03, 2017Fresenius Medical Care
Brief News
Fresenius' Investment Grade Rating remains unaffected

Following Fresenius’ announcement to acquire Akorn, Inc. and Merck KGaA’s biosimilars business, the rating agencies Standard & Poor’s (BBB-, stable), Moody’s (Baa3, stable) and Fitch (BBB-, stable) confirm the corporate credit ratings of Fresenius to be unaffected.

April 26, 2017Fresenius

Fresenius Kabi to strengthen and diversify product portfolio by acquiring Akorn and Merck KGaA’s biosimilars business

April 24, 2017Fresenius Kabi