Partners International announces UAE program- BWH Bulletin - For and about the People of Brigham and Women's Hospital
Partners International announces UAE program- BWH Bulletin - For and about the People of Brigham and Women's Hospital
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March 3, 2000
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Nearly three years ago Partners HealthCare launched the Partners International Program to ensure Partners hospitals a foot-hold on the international health care front. In January, the program negotiated a contract with the United Arab Emirates that brings patients to Partners and represents the program’s most significant accomplishment to date. While business has boomed in the UAE over the last 30 years, top quality health care has lagged behind—a situation the government is committed to changing. With the agreement, Partners joined two other medical centers—John Hopkins and The Carolinas Healthcare System—for the first three years of a 14-year project to upgrade the UAE military health care system. The hope is that the project will benefit not only the military but the UAE’s health care system as a whole. Partners will receive approximately 300 referrals annually from the UAE military for services not available there, and Partners physicians will travel to the UAE to share their patient care, research, and teaching expertise, especially in the areas of women’s health and cardiac care. According to Edwin J. McCarthy, Partners corporate manager, International Marketing and Business Development, “The project offers a rare opportunity to improve medical care for a defined population on good business terms.” “By exporting our expertise and best practices, we can have a very real and lasting impact on improving global medicine,” said David Jones, executive director of the Partners International Program. Gilbert H. Mudge, Jr., MD, director, BWH Cardiac Transplantation, who with and Mortimer J. Buckley, MD, senior surgeon at the MGH have provided physician leadership, added to Jones’s comments, saying, “This project gives physicians the unique opportunity to provide consultation to an evolving health care system in the Middle East.” For more information about the project, contact Edwin J. McCarthy at 724-5407.