American Hospital, Dubai

The American Hospital Dubai provides high quality American standard healthcare to meet the needs and expectations of the people in Dubai, UAE and surrounding Gulf states. It is a acute care, general medical/surgical hospital, and was planned , built and equipped to meet American standards of healthcare.

The hospital is the first in the Middle East to get accredited and has been accredited 3 times by the Joint Commission International Accreditation that reassures commitment to the highest quality of American standard healthcare. All physians who are credentialed are North American Board Certified or of equivalent Western training programs, such as those of United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

So as to meet the growing demand for more personalized services, comfort, and convenience, broaden healthcare services and deepen the level of expertise and care available to patients, the size of the American hospital was increased by further 25 per cent. Now the new facilities include a Dialysis Unit with private rooms; Lithotripsy Services (treatment of kidney stones); a 10- bed Intensive Care Unit; Expanded Emergency Department staffed with American Board Certified physicians; a 13-bed child-friendly Pediatric Suite; and 9 bed Endoscope offering same day surgery.

The American Hospital Dubai Medical Laboraortory has also been accredited by the College of American Pathologists thrice. The pathology laboratory operates 24/7 to provide the highest quality results to meet patient and physicians needs. It has over 30 full-time qualified staff, and the services offered include biochemistry, hematology, transfusion medicine, microbiology, molecular biology, histology, and cytology. The Total Joints Replacement Center of the American Hospital Dubai is the 4th worldwide and the Center’s Medical Director Dr. Tarabichi has performed over 2000 joint replacements, the largest number of any private hospitals in the Middle East. The Center is fully equipped with its extensive surgical expertise, and uses the latest and the most extensive range of full or partial artificial joints.

The Heart Center of the American Hospital Dubai is the new regional center of excellence for cardiac care. All types of cardiac conditions are treated and advance interventional and surgical procedures are performed at this hospital. The Heart Center is committed to introducing new, advanced techniques such as endoscopic and robotic procedures, as they become available.

The Cancer Care Center at the American Hospital Dubai is a new, dedicated facility providing a range of Medical and Oncology and Hematology Services for all forms of cancers and blood disorders. Other than the traditional cancer treatment, options of Surgery, Chemotherapy, and Palliative care, the new Cancer Care Center will offer new therapies, such as ‘Targeted Therapy’- a new approach to cancer management, which uses drugs to block the growth and spread of cancer cells. The Center focuses on two main areas of care: firstly, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and care in the field of Oncology. Secondly, the center will focus on Hematology- the screening, diagnosis and treatment of blood diseases, whether benign or malignant. The Center has a full-time, dedicated Oncology team of two nurses and an Oncology pharmacist.

The Diabetes Center of Excellence provides people with diabetes and their families’ special medical and supervision, information and education, support and empowerment to allow a full, active and healthy life with the knowledge to enable efficient self-management and control of the disease. The Center has Specialist Children’s Diabetes Clinic, Specialist Adolescent Diabetes advice, Adults Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Clinic, Elderly Type 2 Diabetes Clinic and Diabetes in Pregnancy Clinic.

The various services offered are:

- Allergy/Immunology
- Anesthesiology
- Ante-Natal classes
- Breast clinic
- Cardiology
- Cardiopulmonary
- Cardiothoracic
- Dermatology
- E.N.T