After several years of delay, a clinic opened in the Primorsky district

LLC "AVA-Peter" (clinics "AVA-Peter" and "Scandinavia") on May 26 launches its multidisciplinary medical center "Northern Clinic" in the Primorsky district after several postponements of the opening date. Market participants say that the economic situation has now changed, so the clinic will have to make more efforts to attract patients, however, experts state that this task is feasible within the framework of the company’s many years of experience in the market.

The total area of the Northern Clinic, located on Ilyushina Street, 4/1, is approximately 16.4 thousand square meters. m. The medical center includes a children's and adult clinic for 9 thousand visits per month, a diagnostic center, a trauma center, children's and adult hospitals with 103 beds, a surgical department with six operating rooms, a rehabilitation department, an emergency department, pharmacy. To implement the project, investments in the amount of 1.7 billion rubles were attracted, of which 480 million rubles were allocated for the purchase of medical equipment. Design work began in 2006, and construction began in 2011. The company expects to reach full capacity of the center in 2019, and return on investment is planned by 2025.

In 2012, Kommersant wrote that the clinic was planned to be launched in 2013, then plans were announced that the clinic would be launched after the New Year holidays in 2014, then after the New Year holidays in 2015. As Gleb Mikhailik, general director of AVA-Peter LLC, previously explained, the opening was seriously delayed by Lenenergo. “We received the capacity paid for the clinic and a certificate of fulfillment of technical conditions with a delay of 2.5 years. But, fortunately, the problem has already been resolved, all the necessary documents have been received to begin licensing,” Mr. Mikhailik said in March.

In 2014, compared to 2013, the AVA-Peter company increased its turnover by almost 20% (3.067 versus 2.54 billion rubles in 2013).

According to Lev Averbakh, General Director of Coris Assistance St. Petersburg LLC, there were no such large hospitals in private clinics in St. Petersburg before. “There were a maximum of 30 beds, and the turnover of beds was very high. The clinic was conceived in different market conditions, in a different economic situation, and now the management of AVA-Peter will have to make a lot of efforts to attract patients. However, the company has twenty years of experience on the market, the network of clinics is one of the largest and most successful, so I believe that the management will cope with this task. As for the location, it is important only for small clinics, for large ones it is not important: if the services are at a high level, go there. they will come from all over the city,” states Mr. Averbakh.

As Mr. Mikhailik explained earlier, the company was building a hospital to enter the hospital segment of voluntary health insurance. “Currently, about 25% of our patients come through voluntary health insurance, but this is only an outpatient and diagnostic component. We do not receive a hospital component, because at the Scandinavia clinic on Liteiny Prospekt there are now only eight beds in the maternity ward and eighteen in the hospital ward With the opening of the Northern Clinic, 106 inpatient beds and nine intensive care beds will be added in the Primorsky region. Thus, we are expanding our capabilities in the segment of hospital services, complex diagnostics and surgery. At first, the clinic will have 220 employees, but as it fills up. we will staff it with up to 470 specialists, this will take about a year,” said Mr. Mikhailik.

Yulia Chayun

"AVA-Peter" came to the North