Group overview

Growth

Life Healthcare was founded 27 years ago, with the acquisition of four hospitals in Johannesburg. The Group has expanded steadily to become a leading acute care private hospital operator in South Africa, with an extensive geographic network in seven provinces, and mainly in the country’s most populous metropolitan areas. We will pursue growth opportunities through capacity expansion in existing facilities, acquisitions, the construction of new facilities and new lines of business, and will explore opportunities for expansion into selected offshore emerging markets. New growth opportunities are carefully evaluated to ensure that they will add sustainable value in future.

Quality

When people entrust their lives, or those of their loved ones into our hands, it is our responsibility to provide them with clinical care of the highest quality, delivered with empathy and respect. We constantly strive to deliver world class healthcare, benchmarked against international best practices. This focus is reflected, among others, in our Group’s international quality certification, the number of clinical quality initiatives which we have implemented to improve patient outcomes, our strong clinical governance and patient-centric care.

Efficiency

Life Healthcare’s goal of entrenching a culture of efficiency, operational excellence and professionalism throughout the organisation has positively impacted virtually every aspect of our operations, strengthening our business model and unlocking value for our stakeholders.

Sustainability

Our acute care hospitals and healthcare services operations as well as our investment in human capital, infrastructure, technology and good governance are designed to ensure the Group creates long term value for shareholders and responds optimally to the needs of our patients, supporting doctors and other medical professionals as well as to the communities we serve, at the same time contributing to our country’s sustainable development.