Institutional investors’ focus on healthcare services has grown over the last few quarters. This could contribute to idea that the demand for healthcare goods and services are far less tied to economic growth than the other sectors within the market. Click Here For Today's Trending Biotech Stocks“Institutional investors have been learning from their experience and will likely be using those lessons as they inject hundreds of billions in capital into healthcare in the next five years. These new investments have the potential to drive structural shifts in ways that are more direct and proactive than have been used before,” according to the firm McKinsey and Co. “Private equity (PE) investors, for example, have begun to consolidate several markets, including ambulatory surgery, hospitalist staffing, and home health, undertaking more than $50 billion in total transactions.” Over the past 30 days, the Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLV) has outperformed the S&P 500 Index (SPX), which recorded a loss of 3%. Furthermore, healthcare also ranks as the best-performing sector in the S&P 500 this year, gaining over 12%. With institutional investing accelerating as the sector outperforms the general market, numerous companies within the sector may stand capitalize on this growth.