Published: FD january 6th 2009

Insurer DSW together with some other parties takes over the Vlietland Hospital in Schiedam. The parties together will be the full 100% owner of the hospital.  The cooperation is meant to be a step forward in innovation and increase of customer quality in regional healthcare.

This is the first time a hospital is cooperatively owned; and also the first time an insurer is (partly) owner of an hospital. In the past years various other hospitals were looking for capital and funds to make necessary investments possible. It seems to be a new trend.

CEO Gerrit-Jan van Zoelen: “We explicitly have chosen for cooperation in regional healthcare to improve our services. It is very important to give this hospital regional roots.”

The complete article: http://www.fd.nl/artikel/10803656/verzekeraar-ziekenhuis