1. About Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC)
HMC is the principal public healthcare provider in the State of Qatar for over three decades and is dedicated to delivering the safest, most effective and compassionate care to all patients.
HMC manages eight hospitals, incorporating five specialist hospitals and three community hospitals. HMC also manages the National Ambulance Service as well as home and residential care, all accredited by Joint Commission International. While HMC continues to upgrade its facilities and services, it has also embarked on an ambitious expansion program, targeting the areas of need in our community.
We are leading the development of the region's first academic health system and committed to building a legacy of healthcare expertise in Qatar. We collaborate with partners who are key experts in Qatar and beyond, including Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Partners Healthcare, Boston.
We are also the first hospital system in the Middle East to achieve institutional accreditation from the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education - International (ACGME-I), which demonstrates excellence in the way medical graduates are trained through residency, internship and fellowship programs.
2. Our Leaders
3. Our People
With one of the biggest workforces in Qatar, every Hamad Medical Corporation staff member is committed to delivering the safest, most effective and compassionate care to each and every one of our patients.
We are Qatar’s leading healthcare provider to nearly two million people living and working in Qatar.
We are a diverse and exciting organization; over 60 different nationalities working to deliver the best care always to our patients and the community.
4. Our Patient Stories
5. Our Accreditations
Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is committed to delivering the safest most effective care to each and every one of our patients.
HMC is the first hospital system in the Middle East to achieve institutional accreditation from the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education - International (ACGME-I), which demonstrates excellence in the way medical graduates are trained through residency, internship and fellowship programs. Qatar is the second country outside of the United States (US) to have the prestigious accreditation conferred upon it which indicates that it meets the highest and most rigorous standards for physicians’ specialized training.
All of our eight hospitals, our Home Healthcare and Ambulance Services are accredited by the Joint Commission International which partners with to promote rigorous standards of care and to provide solutions for achieving peak performance.
MORE ABOUT OUR ACCREDITATIONS
Joint Commission International
In April 2014, HMC’s three newest hospitals, Heart, Al Wakra and Cuban, joined all our other hospitals, as well as the Ambulance Service and Home Healthcare Service, in being awarded Joint Commission International accreditation, which recognizes high quality healthcare organizations.
Accreditation from the College of American Pathologists
Hamad’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (DLMP) completed a comprehensive inspection by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) in April, 2014. CAP accreditation is considered the gold standard of laboratory accreditation and requires successful performance in stringent proficiency testing, quality control of procedures, staff qualifications, safety programs and overall management. It recognizes laboratories that positively impact patient care and is in line with Hamad’s strategic objective to deliver the best and safest integrated clinical care system in the GCC region.
The DLMP has been working towards this goal for the past two years and official confirmation of CAP accreditation will recognize the DLMP’s commitment to the optimum standards of care.
Accreditation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center
In early 2014, Hamad became the first organization in the GCC, and only the third in the Middle East, to be accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). This achievement places Hamad among an elite class of healthcare organizations around the world and demonstrates the importance placed on providing staff with professional development opportunities. The accreditation is valid for two years and requires adherence to rigorous standards.
The ANCC is a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association (ANA) and is dedicated to the promotion of excellence in nursing and healthcare through credentialing programs. ANCC accreditation is a voluntary peer review process intended to strengthen and sustain the quality and integrity of continuing nursing education. ANCC’s internationally renowned credentialing programs certify and recognize individual nurses in specialty practice areas.
Institutional accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education - International
In November 2012, Hamad became the first hospital system in the region to achieve institutional accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education - International (ACGME-I). This makes Qatar only the second country outside of the United States to have the prestigious accreditation conferred upon it, which indicates that it meets the highest and most rigorous standards for physicians’ specialty training.
This is a significant achievement and means Hamad will attract, train and retain the top medical graduates and clinical faculty from Qatar and around the world. It has been effective from 1 July, 2012 so that students studying in this academic year will be educated under this accreditation.
Under the ACGME-I structure, trainee doctors undergo structured specialist training conducted by dedicated senior clinicians after graduating from medical school. They are regularly assessed on their medical knowledge, patient care skills, professionalism, interpersonal and communication skills to ensure the aspiring specialist doctors provide excellent care. This accreditation also marks a key milestone in the transformation of Hamad into an Academic Health System and demonstrates the Corporation’s ongoing commitment to high quality care and patient safety.
HMC's Ambulance Service Medical Communication Center an Accredited Center of Excellence
The International Academy of Emergency Dispatch (IAED) has officially recognized the Ambulance Service Medical Communication Center as an Accredited Center of Excellence. The center is the first in the Middle East to receive this accreditation, which comes as the result of two and a half years of hard work and commitment to meet the 25 requirements of the IAED. The Ambulance Service Medical Communication Center provides a number of tools to the Ambulance Service to triage the received calls and deploy the most appropriate resource in a standardized and consistent manner.
This system has been implemented in several countries across the Middle East and provides pre-arrival instructions to the dispatcher which is given to the caller in case of an emergency. Following this protocol helps in collecting accurate and consistent documentation, as well as data capture that gives several opportunities for data analysis and research.
6. Our Partners
Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is evolving into the region’s first academic health system and we collaborate with key high profile healthcare and academic partners in Qatar and beyond to ensure we are able to deliver the highest quality care to our patients and the wider community.
Our Partners include:
* The Institute for Healthcare Improvement www.ihi.org
Academic Partners:
* Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar qatar-weill.cornell.edu
* University of Calgary – Qatar www.qatar.ucalgary.ca