Tirana 15 December 2011

In December 2006, THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL opened its doors with an ambitious promise and high responsibility: diagnose and treat Albanian patients with the highest standards of modern medicine.

This wise, well-considered and highly ambitious investment focused initially on the cardiology and cardiac surgery. The American Hospital patients’ carestarted from the heart. The performance for the first time of thecoronarography and revascularization of coronary artery procedures marked oneof the indisputable achievements of the cardiac surgery team. Since 5 years,every type of cardiopathy, including congenital failures of the valve system, the aorta and bypass surgeries, ascending aorta, the carotid and femoral arteries, has been successfully treated by the talented team of Prof. Neyyir Tuncay Eren and his collaborators.

Today, after an intensive work of five years, the American Hospital, located in an area of 17,000 m2, has not only been recognized as the first and most outstanding private health institution, but also as the place where many challenges of the modern medicine have been addressed for the first time.

On the eve of its first anniversary, the American Hospital took the next challenge for the Albanian medicine – the kidney transplant. Currently,the hospital counts a number of 55 successful transplants conducted by our team of surgeons and three hemodialysis centers of 55 beds, being, thus, the only medical facility focused on the treatment of patients with renal insufficiency.

In May 2009, the American Hospitals Group expanded with the Fier American Medical Center and,by February 2010, Durres American Medical Center was established. These two medical facilities that are located in two of the country’s main cities not only serve as reference centers of diagnostics and imagery, but they have also reduced significantly the burden of patients with hemodialysis, who can benefit from this service closer to their places of residence.

The Central Laboratory, which has the widest range of laboratory tests conducted in Albania up to now, is one of the key contributors to the five-year success of this hospital. Counting more than 760 biochemical, microbiologic, immunology, histopathology laboratory test, etc., the American Hospital laboratory is the first and only facility of its kind that has been certified with the highest standard in this field: ISO 15189.

The Ophthalmology Center is another serious investment by the American Hospital that offers to all the patients in the region treatment with laser refractive surgery and addresses problems of the cataract, glaucoma,retina etc. A front runner in all the eye treatments for children and adults, thanks to its professional team, this is the only center that undertakes the cornea transplant in the country.

The Advanced Imagery Center has played a particular role in the diagnostic and research activity of the medical experts of the American Hospital. Thanks to its latest equipment which is unique in Albania and the region and to its 24-hour service, this center enables accurate diagnosis within the shortest time possible, providing particular support to the oncology, surgery and orthopedics teams, etc.

The fruitful collaboration between the medical team of the American Hospitaland Vienna University by November 2009 made a reality of the dream of manychildren with permanent hearing failure. The Cochlear Implant, supportedby the Ministry of Health, has been successfully carried out on dozens ofchildren of different age groups, who have now acquired their hearing abilitiesand are a normal part of society.

At least 650 workers and 24 departments offer their services 24 hours a day in 8 surgery theaters and with 130 beds. A highly active ER service of both Tirana-based hospitals has treated thous and patients in years, who now consider the American Hospital as the right door to knock on for cardiac, pediatric, orthopedic emergencies, and beyond.

The continuous expansion of the American Hospitals Group marked a new milestone with its newest and most ambitious investment of March 2011: the second hospital in Tirana.

The entirely new building raised on an area of 6000 m2 is the biggestinvestment of the shareholders of Bedminster – Allajbeu Group. Certified forits quality management since its first steps, the American Hospital 2 hasfocused its activity mainly on pregnancy and birth, pediatrics, neonatology,gynecologic surgery, orthopedics, urology and plastic surgery. And this is noteverything… One of our strongest achievements and a significant part of the new investment is the Reproductive and In-Vitro Fertilization Center, which has the first and only Andrology-Embryology Laboratory in Albania of these dimensions and with such a modern technological support.

And we do not stop here… After treating thousands of Kosovo patients in distance, time has come to be present in Kosovo with a well-equipped hospital facility that will open doors in the first months of 2012.

Today, after five years, the hospital counts 115,000 registered patients and we try to hear their voice and meet their demands one by one.

The high number of patients, the trust and hope they have placed in our hospital, says a lot about us. It says a lot of the reputation that has beenbuilt in five years of activity by a hard-working team. It says a lot about the expectations we have to live up to everyday in order to justify the trust of those who have chosen us.

Being a leader that sets standards at a national scale and beyond means you have to meet the needs of every and each patient and provide them with the most efficient system and technology that support our professional staff. It also means that we always have to be step ahead and never cease to improve and advance medicine through research and education.

American Hospital staff members continuously work to improve the quality of our care. It is the quality of our staff and the technology of the highest standards that ultimately makes the difference in our care.

Facts and figures of the American Hospital:

115,000 patients

4 hospitals

an investment worth Euro 40 million

24 departments

facilities on an area of 17,000 m2

655 workers in Tirana, Durres, Fier

8300 surgical procedures

130 beds

8 surgery theaters