Medical Tourism - Curtis Schroeder, CEO Bumrungrad International
Ruben Toral sits down with Curtis Schroeder, CEO Bumrungrad International, a Bangkok Thailand hospital that has been around for 28 years and was one of the early movers in medical tourism.
Bumrungrad treats about 450,000 medical tourists per year from 190 countries and is in the process of expanding. It currently has 73 clinics in 7 countries.
Bumrungrad International was the first Joint Commission International Accredited Hospital in the world. The JCI accreditation created a beachhead in Asia for medical quality. The fact that a Thai hospital was the first to receive the JCI accreditation came as a surprise to many within the global health care and hospital communities.
The JCI accreditation helped establish a sense of credibility for foreigners to travel to Asia, and Thailand specifically, for medical care. Foreign tourists, Insurers, Embassy employees, and Self-employed employers rely on third party validation rather than a flashy brochure or web site to make decisions. So the JCI has played an important role in the growth of medical tourism.
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