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Residents in the UAE will soon receive the same level of care and treatment the Cleveland Clinic provides to more than five million patients in the United States, when it opens first stand-alone Cleveland Clinic campus outside the US and Canada, in Abu Dhabi next year.
The main campus in the United States, founded in 1921, is ranked fourth in the country and its heart programme is considered to be number one, being at the forefront of advances in medicine and making headlines in 2008 when doctors performed the world's first near-total face transplant.
Abdulla Abdul Aziz Al Shamsi, Executive Administrative Officer of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (CCAD), is confident that U.A.E. residents will soon receive the same level of care when the local branch opens next year. "The idea was to bring the quality of care that we know is already available elsewhere around the world and have it be a part of this community within the U.A.E.," he said. "More specifically, to plug a gap within the healthcare market and complement the system that is already in place,"
Foreign healthcare organisations are not new to the UAE. Many of the largest public and private institutions are operated by or partnered with international groups.
Abu Dhabi's Tawam Hospital and Al Rahba Hospital are run 'in affiliation' with John Hopkins Medicine, another of the leading groups in the US. Sheikh Khalifa Medical City has been managed by the Cleveland Clinic since 2007.
Eighty per cent of its physician leaders, including heads of departments, are coming from the Cleveland Clinic in the US and a third of doctors are either current or former Cleveland Clinic employees.
Designed and developed by the Mubadala Development Company, the 364-bed facility wants to take health care in Abu Dhabi to another level.
"The idea is that there is a lot of money that is spent by the Government on providing care for U.A.E. nationals, specifically providing care for them abroad," said Al Shamsi, adding, "The opportunity is to reinstate that care back as an option here in Abu Dhabi, and this relationship is allowing us to be able to deliver that health care, but also create something that has never been done anywhere around the world." CCAD, when it opens, will have five centres of excellence in heart and vascular, neurological, digestive diseases, eye care, and respiratory and critical care institutes.
Other institutes will include surgical sub specialities, emergency medicine, anaesthesiology and pathology and laboratory medicine.
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