The Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) Program for Medical Travel Services is pleased to provide the following recommendations and guidelines specific to medical travel patients. While this information will be helpful for all types of medical travelers, it should be especially beneficial for patients who are paying for their procedure out of pocket and perhaps making many of the medical travel arrangements on their own.

Over the last several years, infections related to medical travel have received increasingly prominent news coverage. Most recently, a number of U.S. and Canadian patients became infected with an antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria after undergoing surgery at a hospital in Tijuana, Mexico.

Healthcare providers who are receiving medical travelers and/or international patients (or seeking to) may wonder if it is worth their time, effort and resources to implement an organized medical travel program or international patient department.

The International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), through its accreditation body: The International Society for Quality in Health, External Assessment Association (IEEA), today announced the accreditation of the Medical Tourism Standards of the Global Healthcare Accreditation program.

The International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), through its recently formed accrediting arm, The International Society for Quality in Health Care External Evaluation Association (IEEA), has accredited the Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) Program Standards.

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.

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, Chairman Emeritus and Former CEO of GHA

Karen Timmons is an internationally known expert in accreditation and healthcare quality and safety processes. She serves as Chairman Emeritus, Former CEO of Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA), a U.S.-based company that provides accreditation for organizations that offer medical travel, medical tourism and international patient services.

The Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) Program for Medical Travel Services recently acquired oversight of the Certified Medical Travel Professional (CMTP) Program.

A group of senior government representatives of Hainan, China’s Tourism Ministry recently sat for a 2-day workshop presented by Bill Cook, GHA’s Director of Business Development & Marketing.

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.

Ms. Karen Timmons and Mr. Bill Cook, GHA's Chief Executive Officer and Director of Business Development & Marketing, respectively, presented a workshop on Best Practices in Medical Travel and Destination Development in Sophia, Bulgaria on June 18th.

On August 20th, Bill Cook, GHA’s Director of Business Development & Marketing presented a joint workshop in Helsinki, Finland with Jonathan Edelheit, Chairman and Founder of the Medical Tourism Association.

GHA is pleased to announce that Ms. Karen Timmons and Mr. Bill Cook, GHA's Chief Executive Officer and Director of Business Development & Marketing, respectively will present a workshop on Best Practices in Medical Travel to healthcare providers in Bahrain on October 12th, 2019.

The Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) Program invites you to join us at next month’s World Medical Tourism Congress in Abu Dhabi, scheduled October 15th-17th.

Obesity Control Center in Tijuana, Mexico has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation by the Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) Program for its Medical Travel Services Program.

Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) in Seoul, South Korea has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation by the Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) Program for its Medical Travel Services Program.

The Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) Program for Medical Travel Services and the Quality & Accreditation Institute (QAI), 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 India.

The Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) Program for Medical Travel Services and The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa NPC (COHSASA), 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 Africa.

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.