A Toronto private-equity company has bought False Creek Healthcare Centre in Vancouver, one of B.C.’s first private surgery and diagnostic facilities.
False Creek was opened in the late 1990s by an entrepreneurial Vancouver anesthesiologist, Dr. Mark Godley. In 2011, he sold the Vancouver centre and a sister facility in Winnipeg to Centric Health for $24 million. Murphy nevertheless told employees the growth potential for the private surgery business is “immense” and that Kensington is “the right owner for this business” as it is committed to increasing investment in each of the surgical sites.
Murphy mentioned B.C.’s political and legal situation in the company’s latest quarterly report in which Centric cites risks in the private surgery business, including the B.C. trial and NDP government policies.