Women's Wellness and Research Center provides 240 private inpatient rooms. Image provided by HMC
Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) new Medical City (Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical Complex) represents the biggest healthcare facility expansion in the region and will bring new services and care options to the people of Qatar.
Once fully operational, the three new hospitals Qatar Rehabilitation Institute, Women’s Wellness and Research Center, and the Ambulatory Care Center will house 500 new hospital beds and 3,000 highly trained clinical and support staff.
“This is a project of immense size and complexity,” said HMC’s Chief of Healthcare Facilities Hamad Al Khalifa. “It is a significant improvement in space, environment, and infrastructure compared to current HMC facilities — a state-of-the-art home for an increasing range of innovative services offering new models of care.”
“Our medical city hospitals are delivering on a promise to expand world-class facilities for the people of Qatar,” said Al Khalifa. “But this is not just about the bricks and mortar the dedicated and highly-qualified clinical and support teams staffing these facilities will also deliver high-quality, compassionate care to every patient.”
“In support of the Qatar National Vision 2030, HMC has carefully designed and developed a wide range of new facilities to meet the demands of a growing population, bringing together clinical facilities and services to create a patient-centred healing environment,” he added.
Being the size of 35 soccer pitches, the medical city facilities have unique features including, home to the largest rehabilitation hospital in the region; Qatar Rehabilitation Institute (QRI), at 38,000sqm, is the size of five soccer pitches; the QRI houses seven indoor heated hydrotherapy pools, each with the highest water quality standards, and 11 rehabilitation gyms.
There are also more than 2,000M of pneumatic tubes crisscross the three hospitals and transport medicine and lab specimens to various units within the hospitals in minutes. It also includes the largest healthcare kitchen in the Middle East able to deliver up to 4,000 meals a day to patients and catering for more than 65 different diets.
In addition, the 17,000 babies born each year at the Women’s Wellness and Research Center will get the best start in life with more than 100 neonatal intensive care cots, seven operating theatres, 26 labour and delivery rooms, and 50 outpatient examination rooms.
The Ambulatory Care Center, which is delivering outpatient and day surgery services, is equipped with state-of-the-art theatres, an extensive radiology unit, examination suites and treatment rooms, and 12 examination rooms for ENT and audiology.
Acting Chief Medical Officer at HMC Dr Abdulla Al Ansari said the opening of the new hospitals is the culmination of many years of careful planning and hard work.
“Our new hospitals provide a state-of-the-art home for a range of innovative services and new integrated models of care. Designed with the experience of our patients and their families in mind, we are delivering on a promise to expand world-class facilities, staffed by dedicated and highly-qualified specialist clinical and support teams who continuously strive to deliver the best possible compassionate and patient-centred care,” said Dr Al Ansari.
Chief of Business Services at HMC Ali Al Janahi added that the new hospitals significantly strengthen the ability of HMC as the country’s principal healthcare provider to deliver safe, effective, and compassionate care to the people of Qatar for generations to come.
“The official opening of our three new hospitals highlights HMC’s commitment to supporting a healthy population in Qatar, both physically and mentally, as set out in the Qatar National Vision 2030. These new hospitals are significantly increasing our capacity and improving our services by providing world-class environments in which our expert teams can deliver high-quality personalized care to our patients,” said Al Janahi.
Chief of HMC’s Continuing Care Group, Mahmoud Al Raisi said the new hospitals not only expand HMC’s capacity and the range of services it is able to offer to patients but they also improve and build upon the organization’s ability to deliver expert care.
HMC’s Chief Communications Officer and Chair of the Healthcare Communications Committee Ali Abdullah Al Khater highlighted the role of the new centers in the development of the integrated medical care system provided by HMC, where the three centres are a great addition to the system of specialised services in rehabilitation medicine, gynecology and obstetrics and surgery.
