AROUND 100 employees of the American Mission Hospital (AMH) will be trained in the gold standards of Mayo Clinic which has been rated as global number one on the Newsweek-Statista annual list of World’s Best Hospitals 2023.
The facility, based in Rochester, the US, has been at the forefront of global healthcare for more than a century.
A high-level delegation from the non-profit academic medical centre visited the King Hamad American Mission Hospital (KHAMH), A’ali and other AMH facilities in Bahrain.
Led by Dr Robert Nesse, adviser to Mayo Clinic’s board of governors and former Mayo Clinic chief executive, the five-member team reviewed, among other things, the hospital’s governance structure.
“This visit by five leading senior members of the Mayo Clinic was to further consolidate their engagement with the American Mission Hospital,” said corporate chief executive and AMH chief medical officer Dr George Cheriyan.
“As a part of the Mayo-AMH collaboration, both non-profit organisations, it is an engagement on three levels – governance, quality improvement and the clinical-academic development of staff,” he added.
He said the KHAMH will soon become a node of excellence in the GCC through this collaboration.
“The collaboration will ensure that all our quality standards are, in due course of time, fully aligned with Mayo’s quality standards,” said a statement.
“One of the primary aims of the tie-up is also to train at least 100 AMH employees in Mayo’s gold standards,” it added.
It will also ensure that the clinical and the academic standards in the hospital are slowly brought in line with Mayo’s clinical and academic standards, through research and innovation.
AMH, which is a teaching hospital to RCSI Bahrain, will be able to deliver greater expertise to young Bahrainis aiming to become physicians and surgeons.
The ultimate goal is for the patients in the region to visit KHAMH to access speciality and subspeciality services of Mayo. This region’s patients will soon be able to open a Mayo Clinic file, here in Bahrain, from this hospital, said Dr Cheriyan.
In October 2023, the senior management of AMH along with its board of directors will be visiting Rochester to learn firsthand the operational excellence of Mayo Clinic.
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