Imagine for a moment that you woke up this morning with a very sore throat. You decide to take some zinc lozenges and head to work. However, by early evening you are feeling worse so you go to your local clinic to see a physician.

The Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) Program for Medical Travel Services and The American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL) have announced a strategic partnership to drive change and facilitate continuing education opportunities for tomorrow’s healthcare leaders.

Medical tourism building patient trust

Join us on this timely webinar to hear representatives from Bumrungrad International Hospital, Thailand, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, South Korea share their perspectives, strategies and tactics for managing through the COVID-19 crisis.

Telehealth medical tourism

For patients, the process of paying for healthcare services is often a stressful one. Will my insurance cover X treatment? What is the deductible and co-pay? Why do costs vary so much from one provider to the other for the same treatment?

Well Hotel Accreditation for well-being and medical tourism

The Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) Program for Medical Travel Services and the Malaysia Society for Quality in Health (MSQH), have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for collaboration between the two accreditation programs to strengthen the protocols and services provided by healthcare providers to medical travel and international patients in Malaysia.

The Global Health Accreditation® (GHA) Program, the first independent accrediting body focused on medical travel services and the medical travel patient experience, announced a partnership today with the Healthcare Expert Group of Thailand (HCEG).

When asked, “How is your Global Patient Services Program”? - What do you say? Do you know what to say…confidently?If you are like most, starting a program or navigating the waters of the current medical travel industry, one is inclined to follow the trends or target markets without firm data to justify your decisions. Often, as you can expect, these decisions can come back to bite you.

Prince Sultan Cardiac Center Al Hassa (PSCC) in Hofuf, Saudi Arabia has been awarded a three-year term of “Accreditation with Excellence” by the Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) Program for its Medical Travel Services Program. PSCC Al Hassa is the first hospital accredited by the GHA program in the Middle East.

This past April, GHA was invited to present a half-day workshop and two keynote presentations at the First Health Tourism Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

This past January, Ms. Karen Timmons and Mr. Bill Cook, GHA's Chief Executive Officer and Director of Business Development respectively, traveled to Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, to participate in the Arab Health conference (January 27-31).

The Medical Tourism Association has had a long-standing strategic partnership with Global Healthcare Accreditation, the organization responsible for changing the way hospitals set standards for medical travel around the globe. This week, we’ve interviewed our friend and colleague, Karen Timmons, CEO of Global Healthcare Accreditation.

The International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), which is widely known as the ‘accreditor of accreditors’, has accredited Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) through its recently formed accrediting arm.

Hotel achieves accreditation for medical travel and wellbeing

GHA is pleased to announce that Ms. Karen Timmons, GHA's Chief Executive Officer, has been invited to partcipate in a panel on "The Importance of an International Medical Tourism Accreditation."

Medical Tourism accreditation

If you have paid any attention to GHA’s newsletters and articles over the past 18 months you will have noticed one of the constant themes, if not the primary one, is highlighting strategies to enhance the patient experience across the Medical Travel Care Continuum™.