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Message from the President
The optimal partner for hospitals
to face challenges together
Masatoshi Kimura, President and CEO, MC Healthcare Holdings, Inc.
Everything is for the care to patients.
MC Healthcare Group consists of its holding company, MC Healthcare Holdings, Inc. and four operating companies. Based on the corporate philosophy of “contribution to society,” “sustainable growth,” and “an aspirational corporate culture,” the Group is engaged in various business activities to contribute to patients, medical institutions, healthcare professionals, and society under the vision of “Future Vision 2030,” the ideal vision that the Group aspires to achieve by the year 2030.
MC Healthcare, Inc. supports hospital management through the three pillars of “procurement and management of medical supplies,” “group purchasing,” and “procurement and maintenance of medical equipment,” MC Medical, Inc. develops, imports, and sells state-of-the-art medical equipment and high-quality medical supplies to improve the quality and safety of medical care, and Freeill Co., Ltd. company, which contributes to regional medical care and corporate health management through its services. These three companies, which cover the entire medical distribution process from upstream to downstream and have a proven track record, work together to provide comprehensive support for the clinical environement, each with its own unique approach. In addition, MC Healthcare China (MC Healthcare China Co.,Ltd.) is engaged in business activities aimed at contributing to medical care in both countries as a bridge between Japan and China.
At the core of our business activities is our belief that "everything is for the care to patients.". Based on this belief, we have strived to support the efficiency of hospital management and the improvement of the quality and safety of medical care by working together with medical institutions to confront difficulties they face at any given time, from top management to every one of their employees.
Accompanying challenges in the clinical environment (from goods to services)
In 2025, about one in five people in Japan will be in the latter stages of their lives, a situation the world has never seen before. Due to policies to curb the growing healthcare costs associated with the super-aging population, it is expected to become increasingly difficult to steer the management of hospitals. Not only that, but based on the establishment of a comprehensive community care system and the progress of the regional medical care concept, major reforms centering on regional cooperation and functional reorganization of hospitals are now underway. The wave of work style reforms is also affecting physicians and other health care workers, requiring hospitals to increase their labor cost burdens and improve management efficiency in response.
Against this backdrop, there is an ever-increasing need for not only "goods" but also "services" in the clinical environment. In addition to further evolving the support we have provided to acute-care hospitals through streamlined in-hospital distribution of medical supplies, reducing costs through group purchasing, and developing and introducing the world's most advanced technologies and unique medical equipment and materials, we will also contribute to the efficiency of hospital management and the quality and safety of medical care in communities as a whole. We also believe that optimizing and streamlining healthcare distribution is an important mission of the company.
Toward the "realization of sustainable medical practice"
MC Healthcare Group has established a Sustainability Management Policy for 2023. Through our business activities, we will address eight materialities (key issues) to contribute to the "realization of a sustainable clinical environment".
In addition, responding to disasters and emerging infectious diseases is a highly relevant theme for healthcare organizations. The Group has previously responded to many earthquakes, floods, and emerging infectious diseases, and is preparing to meet the demands of medical institutions in the event of an emergency by continuously reviewing its BCP, securing transportation routes, strategically stockpiling relief supplies, and other measures.
The challenges faced by medical institutions, such as the arrival of a super-aged society, earthquakes and floods, and outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases, are constantly changing with the times. Looking to the future of the medical industry as a whole, we believe that our mission is to quickly identify the needs of the medical field and provide a full range of solution services. MC Healthcare Group will continue to contribute to society by working together with medical institutions to overcome the various challenges they face.
From left to right: Takahisa Ida, President and CEO, MC Medical, Inc., Masatoshi Kimura, President and CEO, MC Healthcare Holdings, Inc.; Masayasu Miike, President and CEO, MC Healthcare, Inc.