Healthscope’s lenders have appointed corporate restructuring firm McGrathNicol as receivers for the financially troubled hospital operator.
The company is Australia’s second-largest private hospital operator and is owned by North American private equity group Brookfield, which bought it in 2019.
Healthscope said, while the parent companies are in receivership, the operational business, which runs the hospitals, is not.
The Commonwealth Bank has provided an additional $100 million in loan funding to help keep the company’s 37 hospitals running while the receivers seek buyers for them.
Healthscope has assured patients that all 37 hospitals will continue to operate as normal and said there will be no immediate impact on its 19,000 staff or…