“We have 5-10 operations per day, over 50 per week, double the previous volume,” said doctor Catalin Copaescu, who owns the majority stake in the company.
The hospital relocation comes four years after its opening, in 2011, when it was launched under the name of Delta Hospital in the wake of a EUR13 million investment. Two years after opening, the hospital underwent rebranding, being renamed as Ponderas.
At the end of last year. the hospital moved in a new building which has 9,000 square meters of medical spaces, 141 beds, eight surgery rooms and over 25 consulting rooms.
The company operating the hospital is Delta Health Care SRL, ranking second among the biggest companies in Romania with hospital operations.
“We did not think we’d need a double area. We had a ten-year contract in the previous location,” added Copaescu.
The hospital moved to Art Business Center office building in northern Bucharest. The entire building has an area of around 20,000 square meters and was completed in 2013.
Asked why he chose to rent a building, Copaescu said: “At this development stage of the medical business, we cannot afford to invest in walls. We invest in equipment, personnel. I do not rule out having a relaxation at a certain moment and a joy to invest in a building, for this is not the case for the time being”.
The relocation decision was made last March, the contract was signed in May, and the first operation was performed in December.
For 2014, Ponderas announced it had over 35,000 patients and revenue worthEUR10.5 million (RON47 million) and for 2015 expects a 25% increase.
At present, the unit has 171 employees, but Copaescu says their number is set to double in the following year. In 2014, at a 55-bed capacity, the hospital had a 60% occupancy rate.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)