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Thursday, February 8, <strong>2018</strong><br />
SPECIAL FEATURE: <strong>2018</strong> PUERTO RICO INVESTMENT SUMMIT<br />
35<br />
Excellent Facilities, World-Class Physicians<br />
Auxilio Mutuo<br />
Hospital<br />
BY <strong>CB</strong> STAFF<br />
Medical services<br />
in Puerto Rico<br />
have done<br />
away with the<br />
notion that you have to travel<br />
to the mainland U.S. to receive<br />
quality healthcare.<br />
Excellent physicians, facilities<br />
and technology have<br />
transformed Puerto Rico<br />
during the past 20 years into<br />
a place that possesses highquality<br />
health resources run<br />
by some of the world’s best<br />
doctors, who are overseeing<br />
the development of topnotch<br />
medical teams performing<br />
highly complex procedures<br />
with a tremendous<br />
success rate.<br />
Liver, kidney and heart<br />
transplants are being routinely<br />
performed with high<br />
precision, and oncology<br />
treatment is on the cutting<br />
edge, with new equipment<br />
to help more effectively diagnose<br />
and treat cancer.<br />
The excellent education<br />
received in local medical<br />
schools, such as the University<br />
of Puerto Rico School<br />
of Medicine in San Juan and<br />
the Ponce Health Sciences<br />
University, located in the<br />
southern region, is thorough<br />
and relevant, turning out<br />
top-notch medical doctors.<br />
Sophisticated<br />
surgery<br />
commonplace<br />
One of the best examples<br />
of the growing level of medical<br />
sophistication in Puerto<br />
Rico over the past decade<br />
is that surgical procedures<br />
such as cardiovascular and<br />
transplant operations have<br />
become commonplace. Various<br />
institutions in Puerto<br />
Rico carry out bypass surgery<br />
and cardiac catheterization<br />
and angioplasties.<br />
Some of these are Auxilio<br />
Mutuo Hospital in San Juan;<br />
the Advanced Cardiology<br />
Center in Mayagüez; the<br />
Cardiovascular Center for<br />
Puerto Rico & the Caribbean<br />
Hospital in Río Piedras,<br />
San Juan; the Pavía Heart<br />
& Lung Center in San Juan;<br />
HIMA-San Pablo Hospital’s<br />
pioneering Cardiovascular<br />
Institute in Bayamón; the<br />
Cardiovascular Institute<br />
of San Lucas Episcopal<br />
Hospital in Ponce; and the<br />
Veterans Affairs Medical<br />
Center in San Juan.<br />
In Bayamón, there is Hospital<br />
Hermanos Meléndez,<br />
with a tremendously successful<br />
cardiovascular and<br />
thoracic surgery record,<br />
and its modern Puerto Rico<br />
Children’s Hospital.<br />
Hospital San Jorge in<br />
San Juan is also renowned<br />
for its pediatric services.<br />
San Jorge’s interiors featuring<br />
colorful murals<br />
designed to put children<br />
at ease and videogames in<br />
waiting rooms remind one<br />
of the Miami Children’s<br />
Hospital—a top-notch facility<br />
in its own right.<br />
Ashford Presbyterian<br />
Community Hospital, also<br />
known as El Presby, in San<br />
Juan’s Condado community,<br />
is widely recognized for its<br />
neonatal services, women’s<br />
health-related services and<br />
wound center.<br />
HIMA-San Pablo, a network<br />
of islandwide hospitals,<br />
is a local trendsetter<br />
in cardiovascular care and<br />
has been setting the pace<br />
as one of the first hospitals<br />
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