Diaverum is a Swedish multinational healthcare organisation that provides life-enhancing renal care to patients with chronic kidney disease. The company has over 450 clinics in 24 countries,

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History

Diaverum was originally part of the Swedish company Gambro, founded in Lund,

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in 1964. Gambro opened its first dialysis clinic in Lund in 1991. The clinic activities expanded under the name Gambro Healthcare and by 2005 the company managed 150 dialysis clinics worldwide. Gambro Healthcare was divested from Gambro in 2007 and taken over by

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, a major private healthcare investor in Europe, and the company management. The name Diaverum was adopted in 2008. Today, Diaverum is led by Dimitris Moulavasilis, President and CEO and his executive team. It established a contract with

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in 2012 to allow its customers to provide feedback. Responses are collected and analysed in multiple languages for an initial roll out covering the UK and Spain. Since the

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came into force in April 2013 the company has been awarded three British contracts worth at least £150m. In 2020 it won a contract to operate haemodialysis and outpatient services covering East Lancashire, North Lancashire and South Cumbria for seven years, on more accessible sites than were previously provided. In 2020 the kidney dialysis centers market was expected to continue to grow at a continued Compound Annual Growth Rate of 3.3%. Diaverum is ranked as the global no.3 dialysis clinic operator after

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and DaVita Inc.

Service offer

Diaverum describes itself as integrated renal care provider offering renal care from preventive and early stage to renal replacement therapies: *In-clinic

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*Other medical services such as vascular access

Medical research

Diaverum conducts scientific and clinical research on preventing or minimising the risks for dialysis, making dialysis more effective, finding solutions to minimise risks of dialysis side effects, finding proof of the efficacy of dialysis related drugs and vulnerability of dialysis patients to COVID-19. Its researches has been published in international medical journals such as

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and the Clinical Journal of the

American Society of Nephrology Founded in 1966, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) is the world's largest professional society devoted to the study of kidney disease. Composed of over 20,000 physicians and scientists, ASN promotes expert patient care, advances medical r ...

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References

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