The company's purpose is to provide services in the care, support and accompaniment of people in need of all kinds, both domestically and abroad. Furthermore, the company aims to provide medical and surgical services and related treatments, consultations and services. The company may enter into any business and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or that are directly or indirectly related to it. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire similar or related companies or merge with them. Additionally, the company may acquire, manage and sell industrial property rights, know-how and intellectual property rights, as well as enter into any business and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or that are directly or indirectly related to it. It may also acquire, hold, encumber and sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad, with the exception of real estate transactions prohibited by the Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (BewG). It may also provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, as well as provide guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties.