Healthscope may be broken up as Calvary, PEP launch fresh bids

Major private hospital operators including Calvary Health Care and Pacific Equity Partners have lodged new bids for Healthscope’s portfolio of 28 hospitals, challenging a deal between receivers McGrathNicol and lenders to turn Australia’s second-largest hospital group into a not-for-profit company.

Healthscope’s landlords, Canada’s Northwest Healthcare Properties and David Di Pilla’s HMC Capital, are backing the latest bids, which the operators will announce on Wednesday and would lead to the break-up of the group, said sources familiar with the process but not authorised to speak publicly.

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