CENTRIC HEALTH Stock Price, News & Analysis (TSE:CHH)

Centric Health Corporation provides healthcare services to patients and customers in Canada. It operates through two segments, Specialty Pharmacy, and Surgical and Medical Centres. The Specialty Pharmacy segment provides traditional pharmacy services, such as compounding and dispensing medications, as well as clinical and specialty services for long term care and retirement communities. This segment also provides pharmaceutical dispensing services for employees insured by corporate health plans. The Surgical and Medical Centres segment offers diagnostics services, including MRI/lightspeed 64-slice CT, cardiac CT angiography, colonoscopy, diagnostic ultrasound, digital X-ray, and gastroscopy; and surgical services, such as bariatric/lap band weight loss, general, orthopedic, and plastic surgery, as well as services in the areas of cardiology, dermatology, neurology and neuropathology, otolaryngology, urology, and women's health and gynecology. This segment also provides specialty programs; offers surgical services, including private paid non-insured surgeries and diagnostics, government outsourcing of insured surgeries and diagnostics, and other procedures funded by third-party payors, as well as owns the Centre of Excellence in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery; and operates five facilities across four provinces. In addition, the company offers orthotics products and services, such as custom orthotics, knee bracing, laser and shock therapy. The company was formerly known as Alegro Health Corp. and changed its name to Centric Health Corporation in August 2009. Centric Health Corporation was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.