SEATTLE (Yosefardi) – A Seattle-based firm Columbia Asia, steadily created one of the largest hospital systems in Southeast Asia and India, plans to invest another $150 million to expand its network to 34 hospitals and one clinic by 2018.

Columbia Pacific Management and its investment partners created the Columbia Asia hospital system with an innovative business model focused on serving Asia’s rapidly growing middle class with modern and efficient multispecialty hospitals located close to where patients live and work.

Columbia Asia opened four new hospitals just in the last few months – in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, in the Indonesian city of Semarang and in Bangalore and Ahmedabad, India.

The company currently has more than 8,000 employees serving more than 2 million patients a year in 26 hospitals and one clinic in Malaysia, India, Indonesia and Vietnam.