Life Healthcare Group

{{Short description|Private hospital company in South Africa}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Life Healthcare Group

| logo = Life Healthcare Group Logo.png

| trade_name = {{JSE|LHC}}

| ISIN = {{ISIN|sl=n|pl=y|ZAE000145892}}

| type = Public

| hq_location_city = Johannesburg

| hq_location_country = South Africa{{cite web|url= https://www.lifehealthcare.co.za/contact-us/ |title= Life Healthcare - Our Contact Details |author= |publisher= Life Healthcare Group |date= |access-date= 1 June 2025 }}

| industry = Private hospitals
Healthcare

| services = Healthcare

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| key_people = {{Unbulleted list| | Peter Wharton-Hood (CEO)}}

| revenue = R 18.5 Billion (2019) {{cite web|url=http://www.lifehealthcare-online.co.za/life-healthcare-iar-2019/our-geographic-footprint.php|title=Annual Results 2019| publisher=Life Healthcare Group|accessdate= 2 January 2020}}

| operating_income = R 2.8 Billion (2019)

| website = {{URL|https://lifehealthcare.co.za}}

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Life Healthcare Group (formerly Afrox Healthcare) is a private hospital group in South Africa, and the second largest of its kind in the country. {{citation needed|date=June 2025}} The company is also the largest black-owned hospital operator in South Africa.{{cite news|title=MD who's unafraid to voice a second opinion|author=Shevel, Adele|publisher=Sunday Times|date=2005-05-08|pages=10}}

History

Afrox was traded on the JSE Securities Exchange until it was sold to Business Venture Investments Limited (Bidco), a black empowerment group, in 2005.{{cite news|title=Afrox Healthcare empowerment deal gets green light|publisher=Business Day|date=2005-03-05|author=Njobeni, Siseko|pages=17}}{{cite news |last1=Botha |first1=Zonika |title=R3,1bn deal to empower SA healthcare |url=https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/r31bn-deal-to-empower-sa-healthcare-2003-11-28 |work=Engineering News |date=28 November 2003}}

In November 2016, Life Healthcare bought Alliance Medical for around R10.4 billion.{{cite news|title=South Africa's Life Healthcare to buy Britain's Alliance Medical for $727 million|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-alliancemedical-m-a-life-healthcare-idUKKBN13B16N|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117162459/http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-alliancemedical-m-a-life-healthcare-idUKKBN13B16N|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 November 2016|accessdate=15 December 2016|publisher=Reuters|date=16 November 2016}}

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