![]() patients” but it is still operating well below capacity. Abraham said the hospital is already “receiving a fair amount of U.S. The accreditation, he said, helps cement the potential to make “medical tourism the third pillar in the Cayman Island economy.”ĭr. McLaughlin said the international certification would help bring more patients from abroad to Health City. He said there is still a way to go for the hospital, but it reached the accreditation “in really record time.” “Today is another in many milestones,” said John Doyle, a board member at Health City and the executive vice president of Ascension, a Catholic hospital chain in the U.S. The organization sent four surveyors, all doctors or other healthcare professionals, for an inspection last month to review everything from sanitary procedures in operating rooms to medical ethics to the hospital’s supply chain and inventory. ![]() The Doctors Hospital in the Bahamas received accreditation from JCI in 2010. Health City is now the second hospital in the Caribbean to receive the international accreditation. The certificate comes from the Joint Commission International, the international arm of the accrediting organization for hospitals in the United States. With the announcement, the premier said, “Overseas patients are safe in knowing they will receive quality healthcare.” Premier Alden McLaughlin, on hand at Health City for the announcement, said the accreditation will help “push Cayman into the forefront of destination healthcare.” Chandry Abraham, at a press conference Wednesday, said the hospital “is now in an elite club of top-class hospitals around the world.” The hospital, which began accepting patients a year ago, hopes to become a destination for people in North and Latin America to have complicated surgical procedures such as knee replacements or open-heart operations at a fraction of the cost of their home countries. ![]() ![]() Health City Cayman Islands has officially received its international accreditation, opening up the East End hospital to more medical tourists from North America and Europe. Chandy Abraham and marketing director Shomari Scott announce the new accreditation for the hospital. From left, Health City quality coordinator Vinit Raj, Ascension’s John Doyle, Premier Alden McLaughlin, Health City Head of Medical Services Dr. ![]()
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