Fresenius Helios
Europe
Largest European hospital operator
Fresenius Helios is Europe’s leading private hospital operator, with approximately 125,000 employees. Fresenius Helios owns and operates Helios hospitals in Germany, as well as Quirónsalud hospitals in Spain and Latin America. Every year, more than 22 million patients opt for medical treatment at a Fresenius Helios hospital. Both Helios and Quirónsalud are the largest private hospital operators in their respective national markets. Helios owns 87 hospitals across Germany – including maximum care facilities in Berlin, Duisburg, Erfurt, Krefeld, Schwerin, Wiesbaden and Wuppertal. Helios also operates 130 medical care centers and six prevention centers. Every year, around 5.4 million patients are treated by Helios in Germany, 4.4 million of them outpatients. Almost 75,000 people are employed at Berlin-based Helios.Quirónsalud operates 56 hospitals, about 88 outpatient centers and some 300 Occupational Risk Centers. Around 17.1 million patients are treated here every year, 16.1 million of whom are outpatients. Active in every major metropolitan region of Spain, and now with seven hospitals in Latin America, Madrid-based Quirónsalud has about 46,000 employees.
Contact
Helios Kliniken GmbH
Friedrichstr. 136
10117 Berlin
Germany
T +49 30 521 321-0
Fresenius Medical Care
Europe
Every second dialysis machine worldwide
Established in 1979, the Schweinfurt, Germany plant is Fresenius Medical Care’s largest development and production facility for dialysis machines and other medical-technical devices. Every second dialysis machine produced worldwide comes out of Schweinfurt or its sister plant in Concord, California. Dialysis machines are among the most important products for treating chronic kidney disease. They pump the patient’s blood into a dialyzer, which allows it to be cleaned outside of the body. They also deliver the dialysis solutions necessary to cleanse the blood, administer anticoagulants to prevent blood clotting, and monitor the dialysis treatment. More than 1,000,000 dialysis machines have been produced so far in Schweinfurt. Fresenius Medical Care employs about 1,400 people at the facility.
Kontakt
Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
Hafenstraße 9
97424 Schweinfurt
Germany
T +49 (0) 9721 678-0
F +49 (0) 9721 678-200
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Fresenius
Europe
Corporate Headquarters
The Fresenius corporate head office is located in Bad Homburg. Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA and the Fresenius Medical Care and Fresenius Kabi business segments have their main offices here.
Contact
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA
Else-Kröner-Str. 1
61352 Bad Homburg
Germany
T: +49 6172 608-0
pr-fre@fresenius.com
Fresenius
Asia-Pacific
Successful in China for more than 30 years
China has played a major role in the development of Fresenius. The health care group was already active in “The Middle Kingdom” in the early 1980s, and has been gaining experience and know-how in this key market ever since. Fresenius Kabi now operates four plants in China. It is the market leader in parenteral nutrition, a leading supplier of infusion therapies, and one of the largest foreign-based pharmaceutical companies in the country. Fresenius Medical Care also operates its own production facilities. In addition, the company is operating dialysis clinics and hospitals in China. Fresenius Vamed has also successfully completed numerous projects in China. Among them: Equipping a number of hospitals with the latest medical technology, and erecting the 680-bed First People’s Hospital in Shanghai on a turnkey basis.
Contact
Fresenius Kabi (China) Co. Limited
16F, GrandyVic Building, No.16, Taiyanggong Mid Street
Chaoyang District
1000028 Beijing, China
T +86 10 5909 6999
Contact
Fresenius Medical Care (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
Unit 4601-05&11, 46F, 2 Grand Gateway
3 Hongqiao Road, Xu Hui District
200030 Shanghai, China
T +86 21 6115 2800
Fresenius Helios
Europe
Using protons to take on cancer
One of the most advanced cancer treatments, proton beam therapy works by radiating the tumor with positively charged hydrogen atoms, and has major advantages over traditional radiation therapy. In 2020, Quirónsalud, the Spanish hospital group of Fresenius Helios, has opened that country’s first proton beam therapy center.Quirónsalud has opted for the Proteus One, a unique proton beam therapy system which, unlike others systems, allows all the technology necessary for treatment to be grouped together in one multifunctional room. It includes a tumor-scanning system to help doctors determine the optimal dose for each part of the body being treated, as well as a state-of-the-art imaging systems. And Proteus One can rotate 360 degrees, to direct the beam from any desired angle.
Fresenius Kabi
Europe
State of the art production of infusions
In Friedberg, Germany, Fresenius Kabi operates a state of the art production facility for infusion solutions. The plant employs about 1,000 people. The company delivers infusion solutions in plastic bags or bottles from Friedberg to pharma wholesalers, pharmacists and hospitals. Every day, the employees of the Friedberg Logistics Center send out around 2,000 orders with the aid of modern software and a fully-automated high-rack warehouse to customers all over the world.
Contact
Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH
Werk Friedberg
Freseniusstr. 1
61169 Friedberg
Germany
T: +49 (0) 6172 686-0
Fresenius Medical Care
Latin America
Helping patients to conquer illiteracy
Despite Argentina’s high overall literacy rate, a third of Fresenius Medical Care’s patients in the country do not have a primary school diploma. This results directly in a high rate of functional illiteracy. Yet having these patients coming regularly to the same location, where they will required to sit largely immobile for four hours, free from outside distractions, also represents an opportunity to help.This opportunity is one that Fresenius Medical Care started using in 2008 by working with government to open a “school” for patients in a company dialysis clinic. In cooperation with the education ministries of several provinces, 18 of these schools are now operating in Fresenius Medical Care clinics in Argentina, each staffed by teachers specializing in adult education. Sixteen of the schools teach a general primary school curriculum with a heavy emphasis on reading and writing (five of them also offer secondary school courses), while two teach basic computer skills. With company and education officials delighted at the success of the program, Fresenius Medical Care hopes to expand it into additional clinics in coming years, to help even more patients.
Contact
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
Else-Kroener-Strasse 1
61352 Bad Homburg
Germany
T: +49 6172 609-0
pr@fmc-ag.com
Fresenius Medical Care
North America
More than 2,600 dialysis clinics
North America is Fresenius Medical Care’s largest market by far. The company operates more than 2,600 of its own dialysis clinics there, and treats more than 205,000 patients. One of Fresenius Medical Care’s largest plants worldwide is in Odgen, Utah.
Contact
Fresenius Medical Care North America
920 Winter Street
Waltham, MA
02451-1457
USA
T +1 (781) 699-900
Fresenius
Latin America
Major player in Latin America
Fresenius has been active in Brazil longer than in any other country outside of Europe, having set up its own distributor there in the mid-1970s. The acquisition of Hiplex, a pharmaceutical company specializing in infusion solutions and based in Campinas, Sao Paulo state, followed in 1977. Brazil continues to play a leading role in Fresenius’ Latin American activities. Fresenius Kabi and Fresenius Medical Care both have their own plants in the country, and Fresenius Medical Care also operates dialysis clinics. In total, Fresenius employs around 4,000 people in Brazil.
Contact
Fresenius Kabi Brasil Ltda.
Av. Marginal Projetada, 1652 - G1
06464-200 Tamboré - Barueri - São Paulo
Brazil
T +55 11 2504 1400
Contact
Fresenius Medical Care Ltda.
Av. das Americas, 3443 - Bloco 4 - Cobertura
22631-003 Barra da Tijuca - Rio de Janeiro- RJ
Brazil
T+ +55 21 21 79 -24 00
Fresenius Medical Care
Asia-Pacific
Expansion of the health care system
Fresenius Medical Care has been active in Indonesia since 2000 and is now the market leader for dialysis products in the country. The company has installed over a thousand modern hemodialysis systems there to date as well as dialyzers, water treatment systems and accessories. The company supplies around half of all the clinics. In the Greater Jakarta area, Fresenius Medical Care runs a dialysis center as part of a public-private partnership. The Indonesian government has decided to significantly increase the capacity of its hospitals and to make it easier to build private clinics. Dialysis patients are also set to benefit from this. The number of patients being treated is already rising sharply each year.
In view of this situation, a major task for Fresenius Medical Care is training clinic staff to handle dialysis technology. The company‘s employees are helping to promote the expansion of the health care system in Indonesia – even in remote parts of the island nation.
Contact
Fresenius Medical Care Indonesia
Tempo Scan Tower
20th Floor
Jl. H.R. Rasuna Said Kav 3-4,
Jakarta, 12950 Indonesia
T +62 21 29346200
Fresenius
Europe
Main site for dialyzer production
At the St. Wendel, Saarland, facility in Germany Fresenius Medical Care develops and manufactures life-saving products for the treatment of patients with chronic kidney failure. These include dialyzers (artificial kidneys) and systems for peritoneal dialysis (dialysis via the peritoneum). St. Wendel is Fresenius' first – and at the same time the most important – factory for dialyzer production. Large-scale production of the first polysulfone dialyzers started in 1985 at this factory, which has belonged to the company since the mid-1970s. Artificial kidneys made from this material are especially effective in removing metabolic waste products from the blood of patients. Altogether about 2,000 employees work at this location including approximately 150 engineers and scientists.
Contact
Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
Frankfurter Straße 6-8
66606 St. Wendel
Germany
T +49 (0) 6851 807-0
Fresenius Vamed
Africa
A modular hospital concept
Fresenius Vamed has developed an innovative modular hospital concept for rural areas in developing and emerging countries. In Africa, VAMED has been working with several governments for many years to address the top priority of nationwide access to basic health care. This requires a network of complementary facilities – large hospitals in the cities and polyclinics dispersed throughout the countryside. VAMED’s modular hospital concept is like using building blocks. The size of hospitals and their equipment can be individually adapted using various standard modules. Construction and equipping of these facilities becomes faster and simpler. And – crucially – makes them much cheaper.
Fresenius Medical Care
Asia-Pacific
Dialysis in the Australian outback
For Aborigines, the risk of developing chronic kidney disease is 15 to 30 times higher than for other Australians. Aborigine dialysis patients must often live in faraway towns to receive regular treatment, so the “Purple Truck” was started to make it possible for them to spend more time in their home villages. This mobile dialysis service can be on the road for several weeks at a time, bringing dialysis care to patients in a dozen remote Western Desert communities. The Purple Truck contains a complete dialysis station supplied and set up by Fresenius Medical Care. The company also provided the technical know-how to make the equipment robust enough to stand up to long journeys on the unpaved, corrugated roads of the Australian Outback.
Contact
Fresenius Medical Care Australia Pty Ltd
L17, 61 Lavender Street
Milsons Point, NSW 2061
Australia
T +61 2 9466 8000