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CIMA Monterrey

Exterior view, CIMA Monterrey

The acronym CIMA stands for Centro Internacional de Medicina. Also a Spanish noun, cima means “peak” or “pinnacle,” signifying not only the mountainous surroundings of the company's acute-care hospitals but also the high-quality healthcare they provide. CIMA Monterrey is part of the International Hospital Corporation (IHC) of Dallas, Texas, which has been in the international healthcare delivery industry for over a decade.

IHC owns and operates reputable healthcare facilities throughout Latin America. With a US-based management team and hospitals in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Brazil, IHC is uniquely positioned as the sole Pan-American leader in hospital-based healthcare. IHC runs 11 acute-care private hospitals: eight operating hospitals and three hospitals currently under development. Each is modeled after state-of-the-art facilities in the US, providing a full range of sophisticated surgical, emergency, and diagnostic services. The IHC-managed CIMA hospitals in Mexico and Costa Rica are JCI accredited.

CIMA Monterrey was established in 1996. It currently has 70 beds (including intensive care and neonatal intensive care) with expansion capacity for 125 acute-care medical/surgical beds. The hospital is serviced by 2,706 credentialed physicians and surgeons and 180 nurses who treat about 27,000–30,000 outpatients and 4,500 inpatients per year. Physicians and staff members speak English; translation services are available for French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Korean.

Since its JCI accreditation in 2008, the hospital’s international patient volume has grown by 70 percent annually, with approximately 90 percent of these patients coming from the US. Top specialties include cardiac and cardiovascular surgery, cardiology, otolaryngology (ENT), general surgery, gynecology, orthopedic surgery, plastic surgery, urology, and weight loss surgery. CIMA Monterrey offers a complete array of diagnostic equipment, including a 64-slice CT system capable of extra-fast scanning, decreasing the time patients are exposed to radiation and allowing physicians to view clearer images than ever before.

CIMA Monterrey was one of the first hospitals in Mexico to offer intensive care telemetry via the internet. This enables a physician to see a patient’s electrocardiogram and other vital signs from anywhere in the world in real time, in order to assess the patient’s condition and quickly prescribe treatment within crucial minutes. CIMA Monterrey is affiliated with Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas, Dallas, and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; Jacksonville, Florida; and Phoenix, Arizona.

The hospital is beautiful, clean. The room looked like an Embassy Suite, with a living area and what-not. Another girl at the hospital was pretty much with me all the time after that. Both girls work at the hospital, so I saw both of them over the next few days. The anesthesiologist spoke good English and took me through the whole procedure. They rolled me in and did the procedure, and a couple hours later I was out and back in my room. — Al L., Georgia, US

Country: Mexico

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Address:
Frida Kahlo 180, Valle Oriente Garza Garcia, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico 66260

Inpatients treated annually: 4,500

Phone: +52 818 368.7777; 866 540.3382, US toll-free
Email: intlpatientservices@cimamedicalvaluetravel.com

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CIMA Monterrey

Date Founded: 1996

Number of doctors: 2,706
Number of nurses: 180
Number of beds: 70

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Last updated on 28 August 2011