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Thursday, February 8, <strong>2018</strong><br />
SPECIAL FEATURE: <strong>2018</strong> PUERTO RICO INVESTMENT SUMMIT<br />
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Continued from page 36<br />
The wound center at the<br />
Ashford hospital in Condado<br />
tends to wounds caused by<br />
conditions such as diabetes,<br />
and pressure ulcers caused<br />
by patients spending extended<br />
time bedridden as<br />
they face certain health situations<br />
or recover from them.<br />
Renowned for its excellence<br />
in the area of obstetrics, El<br />
Presby has also moved into<br />
offering other services.<br />
Recently, the Caribbean<br />
Spine & Research Institute,<br />
the first private institution<br />
specializing in spine surgery<br />
in Puerto Rico, inaugurated<br />
its new facilities in San Juan<br />
to offer its services in alliance<br />
with El Presby.<br />
To stay competitive, hospitals<br />
have to build their reputation<br />
through the quality of<br />
their services and their human<br />
and technical resources.<br />
In addition, most top doctors<br />
with private practices also<br />
work with Puerto Rico’s<br />
main hospitals.<br />
Although a vast majority<br />
of the island’s hospitals and<br />
medical clinics are concentrated<br />
in San Juan, the<br />
southern municipality of<br />
Ponce and its surrounding<br />
region has seen tremendous<br />
healthcare advances and<br />
now has many outstanding<br />
facilities where advanced<br />
medical procedures are carried<br />
out and major medical<br />
teaching facilities have been<br />
established. Top-ranking<br />
hospitals in the southern<br />
region include Damas Hospital,<br />
San Cristóbal Hospital<br />
and Dr. Pila Metropolitan<br />
Hospital in Ponce, Mennonite<br />
Hospital in Aibonito<br />
and Metro Pavía Yauco Hospital<br />
in Yauco.<br />
Medical care in Puerto<br />
Rico in the past two decades<br />
has made it unnecessary to<br />
travel to the mainland U.S.<br />
for healthcare and has even<br />
created a large medical tourism<br />
industry.<br />
The impressive success<br />
rate achieved by the superior<br />
personnel overseeing the local<br />
resources is a testimony<br />
of how far the island has<br />
come in the field of medicine,<br />
while much more is<br />
underway.<br />
The Knowledge Corridor<br />
sponsored by the<br />
Puerto Rico Research, Science<br />
& Technology Trust,<br />
for example, which is in<br />
the final planning stages,<br />
will interconnect existing<br />
and future academic and<br />
research facilities that will<br />
help increase knowledge<br />
in the biotechnology and<br />
medical fields, among others,<br />
thus accelerating the<br />
scope and size of the local<br />
healthcare industry.<br />
HIMA<br />
San Pablo<br />
Hospital
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