Address: Oxford Manor,
21 Chaplin Road,
Illovo,
2196
South Africa
Tel: 011 219 9000
Web: http://www.lifehealthcare.co.za/
Life Healthcare is a leading private hospital operator in South Africa.
Our group’s primary business is acute hospital care and our network comprises one of the widest geographical spreads of acute care hospitals in southern Africa. Our extensive acute care hospital portfolio includes 63 hospitals, of which 56 are majority owned by us and another seven in which we hold substantial minority ownership.
Life Healthcare is a leading private hospital operator in South Africa and primarily serves the market for privately insured individuals, representing approximately eight million people. Our group provides mainly acute care, high technology private hospital services. Our diversified healthcare business is organised into two divisions:
Hospital division:
Our hospital division provides services primarily to the private medically insured market and includes our core acute care hospital business, comprising general hospital facilities of various sizes that include intensive care units (ICUs), high care units (HCUs), operating theatres, emergency units, maternity units and cardiac units, as well as other specialised facilities that provide either inpatient or outpatient services in the areas of acute rehabilitation, chronic renal dialysis, mental healthcare services and radiation and chemotherapy oncology.
Healthcare services division:
Our healthcare services includes the provision of acute and long term chronic hospitalisation services to state patients through Life Esidimeni, as well as the provision of primary and occupational healthcare services to employer groups in commerce, industry, parastatels, mining and correctional services, through Life Occupational Health.
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