One of Australia’s largest private hospital owners Healthscope has gone into receivership after its lenders voted to end their support for the current owner, Brookfield, which has been unable to pay to keep facilities open, including Sydney’s embattled Northern Beaches Hospital.
Receivers have been appointed, led by McGrathNicol partner Keith Crawford, with the Commonwealth Bank and Westpac, two of the lenders owed $1.6十亿美元，提供额外的资金以确保医院的运作状态一直持续。 srcset =“ https://static.ffx.io/images/qunzoom_0.252%2C$ multiply_0.9788%2C$ ratio_1.5%2C$ WIDT H_756％2C $ x_0％2C $ y_0/t_crop_custom/q_86％2cf_auto/ffeb843d864428d68e21fe73d019216216f216f2cf2cf2cf2cf52bdf， https://static.ffx.io/images/qunzoom_0.252%2C$ multiply_1.9577%2C$ ratio_1.5%2C$ WIDTH_75 6％2C $ x_0％2C $ y_0/t_crop_custom/q_62％2CF_AUTO/FFEB843D864428D68E21FE73D019216F2CF2CF52BDF 2x“高度=“ 494”宽度=“ 740”/> HealthScope陷入困境的北部海滩医院将在接收器希望出售业务的情况下属于显微镜。 Credit: Renee Nowytarger
“All 37 of our hospitals continue to operate as normal and today’s appointment of receivers, including the additional funding, ensures a stable path to a sale, with no impacts on any hospitals, staff or patients,” Healthscope chief executive Tino La Spina
他将继续负责运营业务。
HealthScope的医院 - 包括悉尼的北部海滩医院，霍尔姆斯格伦私人医院和墨尔本诊所 - 5000张床位和17,000名员工，在全国范围内雇用17,000名员工。一直无法找到企业的买家，并试图向组成债务辛迪加的数十个政党提供控制权，其中包括澳大利亚的四大银行。
这个问题今年成为一个领导者，当时HealthScope必须与贷方达成协议，以便与贷方达成协议，以延迟其价值160亿美元的债务，并付出了全部债务，并支付了所有的租金。 and profit from long-term trends like the growth of healthcare needs of an ageing population, took an immediate hit with COVID, which forced the shutdown of elective surgery, which is its core business.
AdvertisementAfter the pandemic, Healthscope’s revenue was squeezed通过加速潮流的到家治疗，以前需要长时间入院。在过去的五年中，对私人医院的多天收入的利润率下降了，但由于员工的短缺和工资上升而支出飙升。
悉尼的北部海滩北部海滩的北部海滩医院已成为医院操作员私人所有权的感知问题的闪点，并在医院的医院求职者中遇到了警告。 record system pose significant risks to patients, piling further pressure on the state government to take control of the troubled hospital.
The Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation (ASMOF) NSW said the hospital’s private operator “prioritises profit over safety” by rostering minimum staff on weekends, relying on lower-paid junior doctors and failing to update its outdated electronic medical records (EMR) system.
ASMOF新南威尔士州代表塔蒂亚娜·洛（Tatiana Lowe）博士说：“平均诊所ian doesn’t care who owns a hospital.
“What we care about as clinicians on the forefront of delivering emergency services to the public is that the executive and leadership are responsive to our concerns, be it a system that is not fit for purpose, inadequate staffing or a clinical danger,” Lowe said.
Loading“That is not going to magically change if ownership changes, whether it’s to another private operator or NSW Health.
卫生证券发言人说，调查将是一个社区的机会，可以让社区了解医院提供的服务，并且该公司“渴望成为领先的医疗机构，成为北部海滩社区的领先医疗机构，为北部海滩社区服务。在剧变的这段时期，基本的公共服务仍然是运营的。他说：“建设性地与所有主要利益相关者一起确保健康科普医院的不间断运作以及最佳练习标准的连续性，”他说。
马萨说，这一刻向新南威尔士州政府提供了一个重新返回北部海滩医院的机会。
“这就是为什么我们遇到荒谬的情况，例如北部海滩医院的孕妇病房，因为这是一场电影套装，
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“That is a complex negotiation and a complex contractual issue that we need to work through,” Park said.
Park said the government was considering Regan’s public member’s bill to legislate an end to the private-public partnership at the hospital without compensation.
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