29-508: MBF may refer to: MBF, an Australian health insurance provider now merged with Bupa Marine's Best Friend , a Doom source port based on Boom One thousand board feet , a measurement in common use in the North American lumber industry Microsoft Binary Format , a floating point number format MBF Bioscience , a bioscience research software development company Minimum breaking force,
58-547: A Spanish private health insurer. In January 2019, Bupa acquired Acibadem Sigorta in Turkey. Bupa Acıbadem Sigorta is Turkey's second largest health insurer with both corporate and individual customers. Headquartered in Istanbul, it insures 600,000 people. In December 2020, Bupa México announced the acquisition of BBVA México's medical services provider Vitamédica. In January 2021, in the UK,
87-500: A combined health insurance, hospital, clinic, dental and aged care business operating under the Sanitas brand. During the 1990s, Bupa continued to expand internationally. An insurance business was established in Thailand which was sold in 2017 to Aetna . Bupa Ireland, a health insurance business, was established in 1996 but sold in 2007. Bupa also diversified in the UK into care homes with
116-501: A half centuries of enslavement followed by more than a century of institutionalized racism. The complaint blamed slavery for present-day disparities between blacks and whites in income, education, literacy, health, life expectancy and crime. This suit was dismissed, and the dismissal largely upheld on appeal. In 2006, Farmer-Paellmann announced a nationwide boycott of Aetna over the issue of reparations for its policies covering slaves. Aetna stated that its commitment to diversity in
145-505: A major hospital in Santiago in 2018. In 2016, Bupa acquired Care Plus, a health insurance business in Brazil . In the UK, in 2016, Bupa sold its home healthcare medication delivery division to Celesio AG. In 2017, Bupa completed the purchase of Oasis Dental Care, the UK's leading private dental provider with 380 practices, for £835 million, from Bridgepoint , a Private Equity group. As
174-522: A measurement for ropestrengths in kilonewtons (kN) Master of Banking and Finance Militärbefehlshaber in Frankreich (English: German Military Command in France), which administered Occupied France during World War II Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title MBF . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
203-711: A number of grant-giving foundations in different countries which work on health and social issues. During the COVID19 pandemic there was an extra effort to support communities through its charitable foundations in Australia, UK and Spain. A Healthy Communities Fund was established, with a special emphasis on mental health and wellbeing in schools. The Bupa UK Foundation focuses on grant-giving and charity partnerships around mental health. These include Beyond Words for World Mental Health Day supported by Cheltenham Festivals , Mind , National Literacy Trust . The Bupa Health Foundation
232-880: A number of other business and partnerships. The company's main office is in Melbourne . Other major offices are in Adelaide , Brisbane and Sydney . The Europe and Latin America's division's headquarters are in Madrid , and since 2021 has been headed by Iñaki Peralta . Bupa has its global and UK head offices in central London . In the UK, there are also major offices in Staines , Salford Quays , Brighton , Bristol and Leeds . Bupa also has associate health insurance businesses in Saudi Arabia (Bupa Arabia) and India (Niva Bupa). Bupa supports
261-565: A private clinic network in Hong Kong; a 49% stake in Highway to Health , Inc., a US health insurer specialising in providing international health insurance for US residents planning to live or work abroad. In February 2015, Bupa acquired a controlling share in Chilean private healthcare network Cruz Blanca. In 2016, Bupa became the sole owner of Cruz Blanca (branded as Bupa Chile ). Bupa Chile opened
290-584: A result, Bupa became a major dental provider. The business has since grown to around 490 clinics in the UK and the Republic of Ireland . Bupa operates dental practices in the Republic of Ireland under the Smiles Dental brand. In the UK, in August 2017, it sold 122 care homes, with 9,000 beds, to HC-One for £300 million. 22 further homes were sold to Advinia Healthcare. In 2018, Sanitas acquired Nectar Seguros,
319-704: Is a British multinational health insurance and healthcare company with over 43 million customers worldwide. Bupa's origins and global headquarters are in the United Kingdom. Its main countries of operation are Australia, Spain, the United Kingdom, Chile, Poland, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Turkey, Brazil, Ireland, Mexico and the United States. It also has a presence across Latin America, the Middle East and Asia, including joint ventures in Saudi Arabia and India. Bupa
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#1732873055202348-527: Is a private company limited by guarantee . It has no shareholders and reinvests its profits. Health insurance represents 71% of Bupa's revenues worldwide and 24.4 million of its customers. Bupa runs various health provision services for a further 19.2 million customers worldwide (21% of its revenue) including hospitals (primarily in Spain, Poland and Chile), outpatient clinics, dental centres and digital services. Bupa also runs aged care facilities in four countries;
377-696: Is an American managed health care company that sells traditional and consumer directed health care insurance and related services, such as medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, long-term care, and disability plans, primarily through employer-paid (fully or partly) insurance and benefit programs, and through Medicare . Since November 28, 2018, the company has been a subsidiary of CVS Health . The company's network includes 22.1 million medical members, 12.7 million dental members, 13.1 million pharmacy benefit management services members, 1.2 million health-care professionals , over 690,000 primary care doctors and specialists, and over 5,700 hospitals. Aetna
406-570: Is descended from Aetna (Fire) Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut . The name of the company is based on Mount Etna , at the time the most active volcano in Europe. In 2000, Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, head of the nonprofit Restitution Study Group of Hoboken, New Jersey, disclosed that, from approximately 1853 to 1860 Aetna, had issued life insurance policies to slaveowners covering the lives of their slaves. The same year, Aetna acknowledged that concrete evidence exists for Aetna issuing coverage for
435-414: Is one of the leading charitable foundations dedicated to health in Australia. The foundation invests in research that claims to improve health and it collaborates with researchers across academic, industry and healthcare communities. It advocates for researchers, organisations and initiatives that are improving health capacity building by developing skills and networks of health and medical researchers. Over
464-525: The 2000s, Bupa entered the Australian health insurance market, opened hospitals in Spain and expanded its network of clinics and care homes in the UK. In 2007, Bupa completed the sale of its UK hospitals business to Spire Healthcare . Bupa's rationale was that the scale of both its UK hospitals and insurance businesses meant that they were becoming increasingly constrained by being part of the same group. Significant acquisitions followed. The largest of these
493-583: The United Kingdom, Australia, Spain and New Zealand, which make up 8% of its revenue. It was ranked 83rd out of 750 global companies in the 2020 Forbes World's Best Employers List. Bupa (originally the British United Provident Association ) was established in 1947 when seventeen British provident associations joined to provide healthcare for the general public. The firm is a private company limited by guarantee ; it has no shareholders , and any profits (after tax ) are reinvested in
522-659: The acquisition of 200 homes through Community Nursing Homes, Goldsborough Healthcare Group and Care First Group. In 1997, Bupa entered the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in partnership with the Nazer Group to form Bupa Arabia . In 2008, Bupa Arabia was listed on the Tadawul , the Saudi stock market. Bupa Arabia is now the leading health insurance provider in the KSA. Bupa owns 43.25% of this business. In
551-587: The authorities and other institutions to offer urgent free medical assistance to refugees from Ukraine through its 258 medical centres and 13 hospitals. It has set up teams of paramedics, doctors and medical equipment to solve the problems of the refugees and their families, as well as providing employment for Ukrainian medial staff in its facilities. This is taken from published corporate information by Bupa and regulatory reports, financial disclosures. Bupa's global operations across its group are structured across three divisions ("Market Units") together with
580-400: The business. The services offered by Bupa began as private medical insurance, offering policies to individuals, companies and other organisations, and eventually expanded to include privately run hospitals, outpatient clinics, health assessments, GP services, dental centres, digital health, aged care and other health services. Bupa has expanded internationally from its UK operations. Malta
609-631: The detriment of care. In 2017, there was a data breach involving health insurance customers in the Bupa Global division. In 2018, Bupa UK was fined £ 1,500,000 after a care home resident died after contracting Legionnaire's disease . Bupa has been fined over £3 million by UK government agencies since 2013 Bupa's operations in Australia have been the subject of regulatory action and criticism in news media, particularly in 2018 and 2019. Previous issues and allegations made include: Aetna Aetna Inc. ( / ˈ ɛ t n ə / ET -nə )
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#1732873055202638-748: The last 10 years the foundation has invested more than AUS$ 35 million in partnerships. Focus areas include youth mental health including partnerships with Kids Helpline, Macquarie University Centre for Emotional Health, Edith Cowan University. The Fundacion Sanitas focuses on inclusive sports, the recognition of young doctors in Spain, the health and well-being of caregivers of people with dementia, cooperation in health and research in cardiovascular diseases. Bupa has been criticised by some judges, coroners and regulators regarding failures to meet regulatory standards in some of its residential care homes . Staff and families of residents in some care homes have criticised Bupa for allegedly prioritising profits to
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696-419: The lives of slaves and released a public apology. In 2002, Farmer-Paellmann brought suit against Aetna and two other companies in federal court asking for reparations for the descendants of slaves. The lawsuit said Aetna, CSX and Fleet were "unjustly enriched" by "a system that enslaved, tortured, starved and exploited human beings." It argued that African-Americans are still suffering the effects of two and
725-701: The transfer of CS Healthcare's business and 17,500 members to Bupa completed. Iñaki Ereño became Group CEO in January 2021. Ereño was previously the CEO of Bupa's Europe and Latin America division. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the resulting war, Bupa announced that it would be ending relations with businesses in Russian and Russian-controlled businesses. Through its business in Poland, Lux/Med, Bupa has been working with
754-466: The transition to a new partner, True North, while retaining a 44.42% stake in the business, which is now branded Niva Bupa. In 2012, Bupa acquired the largest private healthcare network in Poland , LUX MED, from the private equity fund Mid Europa Partners for €400m. Other acquisitions in this period included: Dental Corporation, Australia and New Zealand's largest dental provider; Quality HealthCare,
783-541: The workplace and its investment of over $ 36 million in such areas as education, health, economic development, community partnerships, and minority-owned business initiatives in the African-American community are more effective at aiding descendants of slaves and African-Americans in general than making restitutions for Aetna's life insurance policies on slaves. Aetna spent more than $ 2.0 million in 2009 on lobbying . The company spent $ 809,793 between January 2009 and
812-584: Was the merger of Bupa's insurance business in Australia with the insurance group MBF to form what was then Australia's second largest private medical insurer. In 2011, Bupa Australia brought together the insurance brands MBF, HBA and Mutual Community under the Bupa brand. Bupa acquired the Amity Group of care homes in Australia in 2007. In 2010, Bupa launched a partnership in India with Max India Ltd. In 2019, Bupa completed
841-429: Was the site of Bupa's first overseas business in 1971 and it started insurance operations in Hong Kong in 1976. In 1982, Bupa International was launched to provide worldwide medical cover to people working outside their home country. This business division is now branded as 'Bupa Global'. In 1989, Bupa acquired ' Sanitas' S.A. de Seguros, now Spain's second largest private medical insurer. This has expanded to become
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