Ameos

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AMEOS AG

logo
legal form Corporation
founding 2002
Seat Zurich , Switzerland
management
  • Axel Paeger ( CEO )
Number of employees approx.15,700
sales EUR 843 million
Branch health
Website www.ameos.eu
As of January 8, 2020

The Ameos Group , based in Zurich, is a healthcare provider in the German-speaking area and operates hospitals , care and integration facilities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland . The company was founded by Axel Paeger and Martin Kerres in 2002. According to its own information, Ameos currently employs around 15,700 people in 95 facilities at 51 locations with a total of 10,000 beds and treatment places. The name Ameos is an acronym from the name of the founder Axel (A) and Martin (M) and Eos , from the ancient Greek for the rising sun, which is also reflected in the logo of the group of companies reflects.

history

The company was founded in 2002 by Axel Paeger and Martin Kerres.

In 2003 the newly founded company took over the psychiatric clinics in Haldensleben and in the same year Karl Dieter Heines' private psychiatric specialist clinic in Bremen .

In June 2004, Ameos acquired the St. Salvator district hospital in Halberstadt and, during the course of the year, the clinic in Anklam and several facilities in Ueckermünde , including the acute hospital and the forensic clinic .

In 2005 the facilities in Heiligenhafen and Neustadt i. H.

In 2005, the company's founder Martin Kerres left the company and founded the Valdonica winery in Tuscany, Italy. In 2007 the group acquired two of the eight state hospitals put up for sale by the State of Lower Saxony : the psychiatric clinics in Hildesheim and Osnabrück . The Lübeck Clinic followed in 2008, and the facilities in Oldenburg i. In 2010, Ameos took over the Alfeld Clinic from the Hildesheim district and opened the AMEOS Pasewalk Clinic , a psychiatric day clinic , the Ameos Polyclinic Ueckermünde and the Ameos Care Halberstadt.

The group has been the sole provider of the clinics in Bad Aussee since June 2011 and of the Inntalklinikum Simbach since August . She also opened the Ameos Clinic Oschersleben this year . A year later the Ameos Clinic Hameln was opened and the former clinics of the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt were taken over , one of the largest takeovers in the healthcare sector. At the end of the year, the clinic in Staßfurt was reopened after it had been closed by the district at the end of 2010.

Among the private clinic groups in Germany, Ameos was in 7th place in 2011 with 36 hospitals, 10 nursing homes and 10 integration facilities with 8,600 employees and 6,550 beds.

In 2013, the somatic and psychiatric departments in Haldensleben were brought together by taking over the former Sana-Ohre-Klinikum. At the end of 2014, the hospital group took over the DRK hospitals in Bremerhaven and Debstedt. In 2015, Ameos opened a psychiatric day clinic and institute outpatient clinic for children and adolescents in the historic Werderhof in Goslar . In May 2017, the company announced that it would take over the Schleswig-Holstein Röpersberg Group. In September 2017 it became known that Ameos had taken over the Seeklinik Brunnen in Switzerland.

In April 2019, the Ameos Group (Ameos Psychiatrie Holding GmbH) and Sana Kliniken (Sana Kliniken Ostholstein GmbH) withdrew their merger applications after concerns of the Federal Cartel Office . With the completion of this merger, all somatic general hospitals in Markt Ostholstein would have been dominated by the Carlyle Group.

On January 14, 2020, the group appointed the Lippische Nervenklinik (LNK) Dr. Spernau in Bad Salzuflen and the KKO Group in Oberhausen at the end of the year.

Corporate structure

The company, organized under the umbrella of the Ameos Group, is divided into three areas:

  • Ameos hospitals and polyclinics (currently 69 facilities)
  • Ameos care (15 facilities)
  • Ameos incorporation (12 facilities)

Overall, the structure is as follows:

  • Ameos Nord with 34 facilities at 17 locations (4,100 beds / treatment places and approx. 4,100 employees).
  • Ameos West with 30 facilities at 14 locations (3,400 beds / treatment places and approx. 6,700 employees).
  • Ameos Ost with 18 facilities at 10 locations (1,900 beds / treatment places and approx. 4,000 employees).
  • Ameos Süd with 12 facilities at 10 locations (600 beds / treatment places and approx. 900 employees).

In Germany, the group is organized regionally and employs around 12,000 people at 38 locations with around 8,000 beds or places. Ameos has been majority-owned by US private equity investor Carlyle Group since 2012 ; the founder Axel Paeger also holds a share.

criticism

The company came under repeated criticism, also because of the use of temporary workers . The Verdi union criticizes the fact that the corporate structure in Germany undermines the co-determination law , with fewer than 2,000 employees being employed in each of the individual parts of the company. In 2010, the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group in Lower Saxony's state parliament accused the private hospital operator of dismissing employees in order to be able to employ them again at a lower salary thanks to a different collective agreement . Ameos asked the Group of the Greens to make a correction, according to which they no longer maintained the specification of allegations and names and withdrew the press release.

In 2012, the parliamentary group of the SPD and the Verdi union criticized the situation in the clinics in Osnabrück, Hildesheim and Alfeld: "We have noticed that Ameos uses temporary and permanent workers for permanent jobs and is thus reducing regular jobs."

In 2014, Ameos was reprimanded by the Psychiatry Committee for its staffing levels. A little later there were warning strikes in Osnabrück and Hildesheim. At the end of 2014, Verdi and the Lower Saxony Health Union (GeNi) carried out a seven-week forced strike in Osnabrück. In January 2015, it was agreed with Verdi and the GeNi to join the collective agreement for the public service , but the situation of temporary workers remained unresolved.

The closure of the children's and youth ward in the Haldensleben Clinic, which was privatized in 2006 and has been operated by Ameos since then, led to significant displeasure among local politicians and mayors as well as in the population in 2015. This worsened in 2016 when it became known that the delivery room was only occupied during the day.

In April 2018, the hospitals operated by Ameos in the Salzland district came under considerable criticism. District administrator and district council members criticized the fact that legal requirements are not being met and that medical care for the population B. not ensured by frequent de-registration from wards. Ameos employees also described an unreasonable workload and severe shortage of nursing staff. A drastic incident occurred in November 2018 in Aschersleben, when a deceased was left in a patient room with two patients for several hours.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Facts & Figures In: ameos.eu .
  2. ↑ Historical. In: ameos.eu. October 8, 1906, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  3. ^ Schleswig-Holstein privatizes forensic clinics In: juve.de , January 29, 2006, accessed on February 19, 2019.
  4. ↑ Martin Kerres: Valdonica - The story. Valdonica Winery & Vineyard Residence, accessed 2015 .
  5. ↑ Zurich Commercial Register Office - Diary No. 1344 of January 12, 2005. In: Schweizerisches Handelsamtsblatt (SHAB). Zurich Commercial Register, January 12, 2005, accessed on January 12, 2005 .
  6. ↑ Sunna Gieseke: Lower Saxony: Sale of eight state hospitals In: aerzteblatt.de , February 2007, accessed on February 19, 2019.
  7. ↑ Ameos Klinikum Alfeld In: hildesheimer-allgemeine.de , accessed on February 19, 2019.
  8. ↑ Ameos sets up a psychiatry day clinic in Pasewalk In: Nordkurier from June 16, 2010.
  9. ↑ Ameos is the new sponsor of Ameos Klinika Bad Aussee In: management-krankenhaus.de , July 9, 2011, accessed on February 19, 2019.
  10. ↑ Ameos takes over Inntalklinikum Simbach ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Newsletter No. 2/2011 of the Psychosocial Working Group (PSAG) in the Börde district. (PDF; 1.5 MB) Retrieved January 22, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Hameln: Two new health facilities opened in the Ameos Clinic In: weserbergland-nachrichten.de , October 31, 2012, accessed on February 19, 2019.
  13. ↑ Ameos takes over Salzlandklinika In: management-krankenhaus.de , March 26, 2012, accessed on February 19, 2019.
  14. ↑ Clinic in Staßfurt reopened In: volksstimme.de , November 28, 2012, accessed on February 19, 2019.
  15. ↑ Wirtschaftswoche of February 9, 2012
  16. ↑ Saxony-Anhalt: Ameos buys Sana Ohre-Klinikum In: aerztezeitung.de , December 11, 2013, accessed on February 19, 2019.
  17. ↑ Ameos takes over three DRK hospitals ( Memento from September 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ Ameos opens clinic in Goslar ( Memento from October 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ Clinic market: Clinic group Ameos buys home operator Röpersberg In: aerztezeitung.de , May 18, 2017, accessed on February 19, 2019.
  20. ↑ Acquisition in Central Switzerland - Ameos Group takes over the Seeklinik Brunnen In: bibliomedmanager.de , September 13, 2017, accessed on February 19, 2019.
  21. ↑ Bundeskartellamt: Hospital operators in Schleswig-Holstein and Cologne are withdrawing merger notifications in two cases after the Bundeskartellamt's concerns. In: Press release Bundeskartellamt. Bundeskartellamt, April 4, 2019, accessed on April 10, 2019 .
  22. ↑ LNK Dr. Spernau is taken over by Ameos. August 22, 2019, accessed January 8, 2020 .
  23. ↑ KKO purchase by the Swiss Ameos group as good as sealed. December 10, 2019, accessed January 8, 2020 .
  24. ↑ a b Information from verdi, accessed on February 25, 2020
  25. ↑ Hospital operators in Schleswig-Holstein and Cologne are withdrawing merger notifications in two cases after the Bundeskartellamt's concerns. In: Press release Bundeskartellamt. Bundeskartellamt, April 4, 2019, accessed on April 10, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Cartel office lets clinic deals burst. In: Doctors newspaper online. Springer Medizin Verlag GmbH, April 10, 2019, accessed on April 10, 2019 .
  27. ↑ Sharp criticism of the abuse of agency work - appeal to McAllister: “Scandal like Schlecker.” In: Osnabrücker Zeitung , August 26, 2010.
  28. ^ SPD wants information from the state government. Verdi: Too many temporary workers at Ameos clinics in Osnabrück too. In: Osnabrücker Zeitung , November 20, 2012.
  29. ^ Ameos: complaint about staffing. NDR, April 17, 2014.
  30. ^ Warning strike: emergency operation in Ameos clinics. NDR, June 2, 2014.
  31. ↑ Ameos management facilitates the temporary end of the strike. In: Osnabrücker Zeitung , November 18, 2014.
  32. ↑ Tariff for Ameos employees: Faster than expected. In: Osnabrücker Zeitung , January 21, 2015.
  33. ^ André Ziegenmeyer: Births only from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Retrieved April 19, 2018 .
  34. ^ André Ziegenmeyer: Births only from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Retrieved April 19, 2018 .
  35. ^ Ulrich Meinhard: Medical care shortly before the scandal. Retrieved April 19, 2018 .
  36. ↑ Franziska Richter: Dead lies next to patients for hours. In: Volksstimme Magdeburg. December 19, 2018, accessed December 22, 2018 .