Fresenius Helios held the topping-out ceremony today for the new main building at Helios HSK hospital in the German city of Wiesbaden, near Frankfurt. The seven-story structure, with almost 100,000 square meters (about 1 million square feet) of floor space, is being erected beside the existing clinic. It will have 22 operating rooms, about 1,000 beds, and a design that significantly reduces distances and waiting times for patients. Helios is investing about €200 million in the new building, while the state of Hesse is contributing €68 million. Completion is scheduled for 2021.

Quirónsalud, the Spanish hospital group that is part of Fresenius Helios, is opening a new hospital in Cordoba today. The company now has six hospitals in Andalusia, Spain’s most southernly autonomous community. The six-floor, approximately 25,000-square-meter (269,000-square-foot) facility includes 100 large private patient rooms, a 24-hour emergency department, seven operating rooms and a surgical outpatient clinic. Quirónsalud has invested €50 million in the new hospital.    

Quirónsalud, the Spanish hospital group that is part of Fresenius Helios, will build a hospital in the city of Alcalá de Henares, just outside of Madrid. The approximately 11,000-square-meter (118,000-square-foot) facility will include 106 beds, four operating rooms and two delivery rooms. Quirónsalud will invest about €27 million in the new hospital. It is scheduled to open in 2019.

Fresenius Kabi is expanding its activities in Indonesia. PT ETHICA Industri Farmasi, a joint venture of Fresenius Kabi and the Indonesian pharmaceuticals company SOHO Global Health, opened a new plant in Cikarang, just outside the country’s capital and biggest city Jakarta. The plant’s approximately 230 employees will produce a wide range of injectable drugs needed in therapeutic areas including gynecology, anesthesia and intensive care. The products are planned for use by Indonesian patients and for export to other Southeast Asian countries. Fresenius Kabi employs a total of about 530 people in Indonesia.

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.

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.