The healthcare group Asklepios Kliniken GmbH started the 2015 financial year successfully, as shown by the interim report as of 31 March, published today. The company, founded 30 years ago in June 1985, therefore continued the positive development of the previous year. Between January and March, the Group’s hospitals treated 558,690 patients, 2.9% more than in the same quarter of the previous year (3M 2014: 542,741 patients). Revenue increased to EUR 774.1 million (3M 2014: EUR 753.7 million); the purely organic growth amounted to 2.7%. While the number of beds was largely stable (-0.1% to 26,550 beds), the number of employees grew by 0.6% to 34,396 full-time equivalents. Utilisation increased from 83.9% in the same quarter of the previous year to 85.4% in the first quarter of 2015.