Cleveland Clinic to demonstrate 'Virtual Visit' at Arab Health 2007

About Cleveland Clinic Global Patient Services

Cleveland Clinic has a longstanding history of treating patients from the Middle East and is taking part in Arab Health in recognition of the increasing demands for healthcare services in the region. For international patients who need to visit Cleveland Clinic, the Clinic's Global Patient Service Program provides easy access to appointments and professional services. These offices offer a full range of highly specialized and customized concierge services including travel services, interpreters for all clinical appointments, lodging and numerous others services. For more information contact the International Center to help coordinate travel arrangements, lodging and medical appointments. Services for patients include providing interpreters for all health care appointments. For more information visit http://www.clevelandclinic.org/gps/.

About Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland Clinic Heart and Vascular Institute was recently ranked number one in the United States for the 12th Consecutive Year by the annual U. S. News & World Report, "America's Best Hospitals" survey. Cleveland Clinic was also ranked among the three best hospitals in the United States out of more than 6,000 hospitals surveyed. Overall, the survey ranked 16 specialties at the Clinic among the best in the United States and deemed 11 of those specialties to be among the top 10.

Cleveland Clinic's Glickman Urological Institute and Digestive Disease Center are also ranked very near the top of their fields. The institution's specialties of orthopaedics, otolaryngology, nephrology, neurology/neurological surgery, rheumatology, pulmonary, endocrinology, and geriatrics are each positioned in America's top ten. Other specialties noted for excellence at Cleveland Clinic include ophthalmology, gynecology, cancer, and psychiatry.

Cleveland Clinic, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a not-for-profit multispecialty academic medical center that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education. Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 by four renowned physicians with a vision of providing outstanding patient care based upon the principles of cooperation, compassion and innovation. U.S. News & World Report consistently names Cleveland Clinic as one of the nation's best hospitals in its annual "America's Best Hospitals" survey. Approximately 1,500 full-time salaried physicians at Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Clinic Florida represent more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties. In 2005, there were 2.9 million outpatient visits to Cleveland Clinic. Patients came for treatment from every state and from more than 80 countries. There were nearly 54,000 hospital admissions to Cleveland Clinic in 2005.

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