Mehiläinen
Mehiläinen (Finnish for "bee") is a concern for social and healthcare services for both public and private customers, active in Finland, Sweden, Germany and Estonia.
[5] The company was named after the mythical bee Mehiläinen in the national epic Kalevala, who healed Lemminkäinen as he was dying.
[7][4] The company bought two lots from the city of Helsinki from the newly constructed area in Pohjois-Töölö, and the first part of the hospital was completed in autumn 1932 at Hesperiankatu 17.
In 2009, the company started offering healthcare and home care services in Karis with the Carema name.
Mehiläinen started offering services for child protection and mental health rehabilitation through the Leivoyhtiöt company.
According to the city of Kemi, half of the doctors agreed in the contract with Länsi-Pohja Oy were missing.
According to Lasse Männistö, the CEO of Mehiläinen Länsi-Pohja Oy, the missing doctors were Kemi's own fault, as the premises were poor.
According to Männistö, the company intends to amend the missing doctors by moving their work to nurses and by offering digital services.
[3] In May 2018 the funds controlled by Triton and KKR sold Mehiläinen to LähiTapiola, Varma, Ilmarinen and CVC Capital Partners.
[15] During one year Mehiläinen built over 700 new apartments for the elderly, the disabled and mental health rehabilitants.
[21] In September the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority made a proposal to the market court to forbid the merger between Mehiläinen and Pihlajalinna.
[32] In Finland, for example LähiTapiola, Länsi-Pohja, Siikalatva and Varkaus offer digital services provided by Mehiläinen.
[29][19] Mehiläinen licences a service based on OmaMehiläinen and the digital clinic[29] also abroad,[32] for example in Greece and Italy.
Healthcare companies and hospital chains can use the BeeHealthy service to provide digital appointment reservation, fulfilment of preliminary information forms, healthcare access, remote appointments, various kinds of remote coaching and follow-ups and access to one's own medical information such as laboratory test results.
Foe example a diabetic can enter their own weight and sugar values into the service, after which a care team can discuss the situation with them by a telephone call or communication through the application.
[33] In 2010 the Swedish Triton AB became Mehiläinen's second main owner in addition to the American company KKR.
[34] Mehiläinen was also accused of tax avoidance,[35][9] as according to Keskisuomalainen it had taken advantage of the concern donations paid to its parent company.
[37] From 2017 to 2018 the Helsinki district court reviewed Mehiläinen's tax shelter from 2006 to 2012 when it had been part of the Swedish Ambea concern.
According to the report, Mehiläinen did not have an aggressive shareholder loan plan, but during the years before the report, it had been undercapitalised with loans taken from funds institutions, whose interests decrease the taxable income in Finland and the self-sufficiency grade of the company was significantly lower than the average in the business.
[39] In April 2020 Mehiläinen announced that the supreme court had declined its appeal and the legal process that had been ongoing for several years was at an end.
The Regional State Administrative Agency had found deficiencies in Mehiläinen nursery homes, but the problems were not as severe than with the other companies Yle had investigated.
The matter was bought to public attention because of the treatment of an autistic boy, but other widespread problems were found in the unit.
