Dr. Chandy Abraham is the Medical Director of Health City Cayman Islands which recently opened its doors to local and international patients last April 2014. They are composed of medical professionals who provide high quality and world-class services and offers excellence in several surgical procedures. They are currently working on their accreditation by the Joint Commission International (JCI) and envisions to provide care in all specialties in their state-of-the-art hospital. Find out how Dr. Chandy Abraham and his team of professionals work on reducing costs to medical care and administer transparencies to pricing without losing the quality in their healthcare services.
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In This Episode, You’ll Learn
- About the state-of-the-art hospital, Health City, in Cayman Island, which recently opened last April 2014
- About a patient from Cayman Islands who had a cardiac failure and was recommended to have a heart transplant in the US but was not accepted by the hospital there because what was available in his insurance was not adequate to perform the procedure
- How this same patient returned to Cayman Islands who had a successful artificial heart transplant 5 weeks ago under the hands of the professionals from Health City
- How they live up with their brand equity i.e afforable and cost-efficient healthcare
- How they make the effort of drastically reducing the cost of medical care
- About their highly experienced medical professionals and doctors who become much more proficient because of the volume of patients they are attending to becomes higher
- About their state-of-the-art facilities with self-generating oxygen for patients
- About their process efficiency that could help cut the cost down
- How they provide a cost-transparent package to patients availing of their services
- How they are in the process of working to be JCI accredited
- The full concierge service they provide their patients
- The cost savings in comparison to the commercial rates in the Eastern side of the US
- Their after care services and procedures
- The importance of physician’s experience, logistics of how a patient is going to be looked at, and establishing a good relationship with referring physician when considering taking medical treatments abroad
The Resources
- Company Website
- LinkedIn Profile
- Facebook page
- Contact No.: 1 345 640 4040
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