Pihlajalinna Plc Press Release 23 January 2017 at 13.00
Minna Elomaa to lead Pihlajalinna private clinics
Minna Elomaa has been chosen as the new business director of Pihlajalinna Group's Dextra private clinics. Elomaa transfers to Pihlajalinna from Diacor, where she was most recently business director and deputy managing director. The areas under her responsibility included, amongst others, private customer business operations, private clinics, and the hospital. Elomaa begins with Pihlajalinna on 1 August 2017.
"I'm delighted that Minna is joining Pihlajalinna. She is a top-notch professional with a lot of experience in business leadership and customer service. There is an interesting power shift going on in the healthcare and social welfare reform, turning patients into customers. Minna has clearly caught on to this shift," says Pihlajalinna CEO Aarne Aktan. "I'm convinced that Minna will be a perfect fit with our team, and I wish her a warm welcome."
"It's great to be joining Pihlajalinna's highly professional team in developing Pihlajalinna's private clinics into an even stronger network. Pihlajalinna has been a pioneer in many of the innovations in the field. The desire and capacity for self-renewal are needed above all in the coming years, when the ongoing healthcare and social welfare reform and digitalisation continue to reshape the health services sector. I want to be involved in these transitions, and keep customers at the centre of the reforms," says Minna Elomaa.
Elomaa began working with Diacor in 2013. Prior to that she spent 17 years in the insurance and finance sector at Tapiola and Lähi-Tapiola. Elomaa has held various leadership positions, including sales and marketing managerial positions in banking, savings, and investment services, as head of the business operations unit at Henki-Tapiola, and as head of business in accounts operations. Elomaa holds a Master's Degree in Economic Sciences.
Dextra private clinics' current acting business director is Pihlajalinna's Head of surgical operations Ville Remes, who continues in the post until the end of July.
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For further information, please contact:
Aarne Aktan, CEO, +358 40 342 4440
Minna Elomaa, Business Director starting 1 August 2017, +358 40 747 1786
Siri Markula, Head of Communications and IR, +358 40 743 2177, siri.markula@pihlajalinna.fi
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Pihlajalinna in brief
Pihlajalinna is one of the leading private social and healthcare services providers in Finland. The Company provides social and healthcare services for households, companies, insurance companies and public sector entities in private clinics, health centres, dental clinics and hospitals around Finland. Pihlajalinna provides general practitioner and specialised care services, including emergency and on-call services, a wide range of surgical services, occupational healthcare and dental care services, in private clinics and hospitals operating under the Dextra brand. Under the Pihlajalinna brand the Company, in cooperation with the public sector, offers social and healthcare service provision models to public sector entities with the aim of providing high quality services for public pay healthcare customers.