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ORI has assisted the American Heart Institute in Nicosia,
Cyprus in an expansion program that will more than
double the size of the current cardiac surgery and
interventional cardiology program at the Institute
and add specialty services in a new stand-alone specialty
hospital in Nicosia scheduled to open in 2009.
The Institute, currently
operating in a completely autonomous program housed
within a wing of a private clinic in Nicosia. performs
300 bypass and valve replacement surgery procedures
and 1,500 interventional cardiology diagnostic and
treatment procedures annually, serving private pay
and government contracted, generally higher-risk patients
who formerly had to travel to U.K. or other European
centers.
The Institute has achieved
a consistently distinguished record of clinical and
operational excellence. It has among the lowest lengths
of stays for bypass surgery among all cardiac centers
reporting results in the European Association of Cardio
Thoracic Surgery data base and has been informed it
has the lowest, risk adjusted mortality rates for
this surgery among reporting centers in that data
base.
With a design enabling ready
expansion, the new facility will initially have 2
operating rooms, 2 catheterization laboratories, 45
beds and a full range of imaging and other diagnostics
along with sophisticated laboratory facilities. It
will continue to serve the Cyprus population with
an expanded cardiac program including electrophysiology,
and plans to draw a larger share of patients from
neighboring Middle Eastern countries and from Eastern
Europe. The new facility will include a private Kidney
Transplant Center currently operating on a stand-alone
site in Nicosia, among other specialty services.
On a fee-for-service basis,
ORI has assisted the Institute in its expansion program
by:
- Developing the business
plan and undertaking the financial feasibility analyses
- Negotiating financing
- Arranging and overseeing
space planning and architectural design
- Negotiating the financial
and operating arrangement with the Kidney Transplant
Center to be operating in the new facility.
ORI has also provided on-going
counseling on clinical and operational matters, has
recruited nursing leadership for the Institute and
has arranged a training program relationship with
Vanderbilt. The lead CV surgeon and lead interventional
cardiologist at the Institute are American-trained.
The nursing and allied health staff are a mix of American,
British and Cyprus trained individuals. ORI believes
the Institute is a good example of how American clinical
and operational best practices can be implemented
in focused facilities abroad to actually deliver,
not just promise to deliver, American quality care
on par with performance at the best American centers.
Click here to go to the
AHI Nocosia, Cyprus website: www.ahi.com.cy
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