Aggressive expansion plans ahead with new senior housing facilities over next 5 years
Bangalore, March 9, 2017 — Serene Senior Care, a leading senior housing operator in India, is being purchased by Seattle-based Columbia Pacific, owner of Columbia Asia Hospital Group, one of the largest and fastest-growing healthcare providers in Asia. With this, Columbia Pacific will undergo a significant expansion of its India senior housing portfolio over the next five years.
Columbia Pacific, a family of private asset and investment management companies, also owns and operates hospitals and senior care facilities across Asia, including the Columbia Asia hospital company in India and Southeast Asia.
To begin with, the first two senior housing communities that Columbia Pacific will build are planned in Bangalore. Within five years, Columbia Pacific is planning to more than quintuple the number of the units Serene Senior Care has under management, to 5,000 units.
Serene Senior Care currently operates 735 residential units in four senior housing communities in South India, with a presence in Chennai, Puducherry and Coimbatore. Serene plans to expand to 1,700 units under Columbia Pacific by fall 2017.
The company operates and provides services to India senior care communities in which residents purchase their own retirement villas, apartments or houses. Serene’s services include meals, preventive health care, wellness classes, maintenance and security.
“Serene is already known for its high quality, affordable service to India’s seniors and elegant design of its communities,” said P. Viswanathan, Managing Director of Serene Senior Care. “With the decades of experience and expertise of Columbia Pacific, we are well positioned to provide India’s senior population with communities built to the highest international standards,” he added.
Serene, under Columbia Pacific ownership, has aggressive expansion plans in India, which is projected to be the world’s most populous country by the next decade, with a fast-growing senior population and an emergent middle class. Already the country has an elderly population of 100 million, more than the population of the United Kingdom and Canada combined.
Columbia Pacific has been active in the India healthcare market for more than a decade. Columbia Asia, Columbia Pacific’s hospital company in India and Southeast Asia, has 27 hospitals and one clinic in India, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia, including 11 modern, efficient multispecialty hospitals in India.
“Columbia Pacific has been operating hospitals in India since 2005, and we are one of the most experienced operators of senior housing both in the U.S. and China,” said Matthew Powell, Development Director for Columbia Pacific’s international healthcare arm, Columbia Pacific Management. “We’re thrilled to meet the tremendous demand and care for India’s senior population with communities designed for the growing middle class.”
To learn more about Serene Senior Care, go to SereneRetirement.com.
About Columbia Pacific Management
Columbia Pacific Management (CPM), based in Seattle, oversees an international healthcare business that develops and operates hospitals, clinics and senior housing in Asia. With locations in China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia and Vietnam, CPM’s operating companies provide healthcare and senior care services in markets making up more than half the world’s population. All of these countries have rapidly aging populations, rising middle- and upper-middle-class populations, an under-supply of quality healthcare and senior care facilities, and increasing rates of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, cancer and cardiac diseases – creating an unprecedented demand for world-class healthcare services and senior housing.
The company’s affiliates include Columbia Asia, operating hospitals in India and Southeast Asia; Columbia Africa, which operates a clinic in Nairobi, Kenya; Columbia China, which is building a network of hospitals and clinics in China; Cascade Healthcare, a subsidiary of Columbia China that operates senior care facilities; and Remote Medical International, which provides medical services and supplies to challenging locations around the globe.