CAYMAN ISLANDS (July 2, 2021) – Premier of the Cayman Islands, Wayne Panton and Minister for Health and Wellness, Sabrina Turner, joined fellow government officials, Health City leaders and Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce members at the grand opening of the Health City Camana Bay clinic last night. Speaking at the event, Premier Hon. G….
Last week, the Cayman Islands Department of Planning provided approval to Health City Cayman Islands for the commencement of the clearing of land at the site of its planned $100 million medical campus expansion at Camana Bay. Mr Shomari Scott, Chief Business Officer at Health City Cayman Islands said the organization was excited to see…
Dr Devi Shetty, renowned cardiothoracic surgeon, Chairman of Narayana Health and Founder of Health City Cayman Islands has urged the people of the Cayman Islands to be vaccinated against Covid-19 before the country’s June 9 deadline when its Covid vaccines are set to expire. Speaking from Narayana Health City in Bangalore, India which is currently…
Health City Cayman Islands has opened its Camana Bay clinic with an initial offering of services in the areas of cardiology, neurology, pulmonology, urology, gynecology, gastroenterology, internal medicine and medical oncology. Patients will be seen for initial assessments, outpatient follow ups and checkups. The clinic is open daily, 11am – 7pm Monday to Saturday, and…
Health City Cayman Islands has begun Covid-19 PCR Testing at its new Camana Bay clinic. The testing will be available Monday to Saturday, 9am – 11am, and test results will be available within 24 hours. PCR Testing is provided free of charge. Health City at Camana Bay is located at 10 Market Street in the…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (April 6, 2021) – Health City Cayman Islands officially opened its Cayman Brac clinic at a ceremony last week attended by government dignitaries, Health City leadership and medical staff, patients and members of the Cayman Brac community. The new clinic will provide specialised and tertiary type hospital services for initial assessments, outpatient follow…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (February 19, 2021) – Health City Cayman Islands has announced its plans to move forward with the expansion of its facilities with the construction of a $100 million medical campus at Camana Bay that will increase patient access and further elevate medical and surgical care in the Cayman Islands. In agreement with Dart,…
By Stellerie Noyons, RD Registered Dietician, Health City Cayman Islands
By Stellerie Noyons, RD Registered Dietician, Health City Cayman Islands
By Stellerie Noyons, RD Registered Dietician, Health City Cayman Islands
CAYMAN ISLANDS (December 24, 2020) – When five-year-old Aagii left rural Mongolia for lifesaving heart surgery in the Cayman Islands in January 2020, neither he nor his mother Amaraa could have imagined that they wouldn’t see their homeland again for nine months. He was initially anticipated to stay in Cayman for just six weeks. Born…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (December 18, 2020) – Dr. Devi Shetty, founder of Health City Cayman Islands, featured in a BBC TV documentary for contributing to revolutionizing the practice and administration of heart surgery for the young and poor, said he wanted children to be excited about medicine and about surgery so they could contribute as medical…
Cayman Compass | By James Whittaker – December 14, 2020
Cayman Compass | By James Whittaker – June 1, 2020
CAYMAN ISLANDS (May 8, 2020) – The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed hospitals around the word into a state of high alert. In the Cayman Islands, there is still a state of uncertainty regarding how the virus could potentially affect the population. But Health City Cayman Islands is ready. The 104-bed tertiary care facility has pledged…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (April 30, 2020) – A shipment of 30,000 personal protective equipment (PPE) kits -vital to the safety of front-line healthcare workers in the treatment of COVID-19 patients – arrived in the Cayman Islands on Thursday, April 30. The chartered cargo flight was the result of much behind-the-scenes work and a public sector/private sector…
Cayman Compass | By Reshma Ragoonath – April 30, 2020
Cayman Compass | By Reshma Ragoonath – April 24, 2020
CAYMAN ISLANDS (December 15, 2020) – To see CrossFit trainer Louane Martins-Silva in action today, you wouldn’t believe it’s only been a few years since she was hobbling in pain and facing a future without sports due to a devastating knee injury. Although she trained for and competed in the half-marathon route of the Cayman…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (December 7, 2020) – World renowned heart surgeon and philanthropist Dr. Devi Shetty, founder of Health City Cayman Islands and chairman of India’s Narayana Health Group, is to be featured in a BBC-produced documentary – The Surgeon’s Cut – premiering globally on Netflix on Wednesday, December 9. The Surgeon’s Cut profiles just four…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (December 1, 2020) – Most guests heading to an event at the Kimpton Seafire Resort & Spa don’t expect to witness a medical education first during their cocktail hour. Nor do they usually watch a live medical procedure streamed in real time directly from a hospital operating theatre while enjoying a buffet dinner….
By Stellerie Noyons, RD Registered Dietician, Health City Cayman Islands With only a few weeks leading up to the Cayman Islands Marathon, your training plan is probably well underway. But what about the fuel powering that plan? Training for a marathon means more than just putting in the miles. Having your nutrition dialed in, pre,…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (October 27, 2020) – The flagship hospital of the Narayana Health Group, the parent company of Health City Cayman Islands, has been counted among the top 200 hospitals for cardiology in the world by Newsweek magazine. Narayana Bengalaru – Institute of Cardiac Sciences is situated in NH Health City Bangalore. This super-specialty cardiac…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (August 5, 2020) – High-quality tertiary medical care is coming closer to residents of George Town, the Seven-Mile Beach area and West Bay – as well as international visitors staying in resorts along Grand Cayman’s Seven Mile Beach. Health City Cayman Islands has announced that the territory’s only Joint Commission International (JCI) accredited…
Cayman Compass | By James Whittaker – June 29, 2020
CAYMAN ISLANDS (June 26, 2020) – Antibody testing for COVID-19 began on Saturday, June 20 at Health City Cayman Islands following the arrival of 5,000 test kits from Roche Diagnostics – one of two antibody test systems approved for use by Public Health England in May 2020. Clinical Director Dr. Binoy Chattuparambil was pleased to…
Cayman Compass | By James Whittaker – June 8, 2020
CAYMAN ISLANDS (December 31, 2019) – An Amerindian mother in Bolivia knew there was something wrong with her daughter when she was a baby but she could not afford to go to the city to receive medical attention. Fortunately, the charity Samaritan’s Purse arranged transportation from the emerald banks of the Amazon to the sandy…
MIAMI (December 12, 2019) – Dr. Binoy Chattuparambil, clinical director and chief cardiac surgeon of the highly acclaimed Health City Cayman Islands, will be honored at the 2019 Caribbean Media Exchange (CMEx) Leadership Awards on December 14 in Miami, Florida. Since joining Health City at its inception in 2014, Dr. Binoy Chattuparambil, known as “Dr….
CAYMAN ISLANDS (November 29, 2019) – Health City Cayman Islands broke ground for a purpose-built dedicated cancer treatment center on Thursday, 28 November with a golden shovel ceremony at the tertiary care medical facility’s site in East End, Grand Cayman. Once complete, the cancer treatment center will allow Health City Cayman Islands to provide greatly…
Cayman Compass | By Laura Durston -November 20, 2019
CAYMAN ISLANDS (October 7, 2019) – The parent company of Health City Cayman Islands, Narayana Health, has been recognized as one of the world’s most innovative health care providers by Fortune magazine’s annual “Change The World” list of companies. While the iconic Fortune 500 list identified the world’s richest and largest corporations, Fortune’s “Change The…
Forbes | By Robert Pearl, M.D. – October 1, 2019
CAYMAN ISLANDS (September 11, 2019) – A Caymanian man who was recently stabbed in his liver and on the brink of death is grateful to the medical practitioners at Health City Cayman Islands for saving his life. The young man, who sustained a severe liver injury following a stabbing incident during last May’s carnival festivities,…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (July 31, 2019) – Not many people can say they saw a pole go through their chest and lived to tell the tale. Nicholas Connor, age 30, was gravely injured when the car he was driving ran into a chain link fence, thrusting a steel pole through his body. A call to 911 from…
Cayman Compass | By James Whittaker – July 8, 2019
Cayman Compass | By James Whittaker – July 4, 2019
Mount Laurel, New Jersey (April 4, 2019) – Health City Cayman Islands is supporting NFL Alumni’s charitable mission with a $20,000 donation to its ‘Caring for Kids’ program. The world-class tertiary care medical facility, which was founded by renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. Devi Shetty, presented the donation at NFLA’S New Jersey headquarters. Health City became…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (February 22, 2019) – For the first time in the Caribbean, surgery using a novel “magnetic nail” device has resulted in less pain and improved walking ability for a long-suffering patient. Health City Cayman Islands Chief Orthopedic Surgeon, Dr. Alwin Almeida and his medical team at Health City Cayman Islands were the…
Cayman Islands (January 31, 2019) – Carolyn Flowers, a mother and grandmother from Roatán, Honduras was experiencing blinding headaches that were having a debilitating effect on her daily life. Coming seemingly out of the blue, these symptoms were cause for concern, since during her adult life she’d never before suffered from headaches or high blood…
Cayman Compass | By Mark Muckenfuss – January 31, 2019
CAYMAN ISLANDS (January 11, 2019) – Health City Cayman Islands began the new year as Level 3 Trauma Center, following the commissioning of its newly expanded Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) in early December 2018. On Monday, December 10 a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the tertiary care medical facility in East End, Grand Cayman, which is…
Cayman Islands (December 28, 2018) – A toddler from Guatemala celebrated Christmas with a new chance at a normal life after surgery in a Cayman Islands hospital to correct pulmonary valve stenosis, a congenital heart defect. Nicolas Garcia-Granados was admitted at Health City Cayman Islands with the serious heart condition, and immediately underwent a six-hour…
Ottawa Life Magazine | By Dan Donovan – December 14, 2018
Mount Laurel, New Jersey (November 20, 2018) – NFL Alumni (NFLA) today announced a partnership with Health City Cayman Islands, a world-class tertiary care medical facility founded by renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. Devi Shetty. Health City is only the second hospital in the Caribbean to receive accreditation by Joint Commission International and provides affordable state-of-the-art…
Cayman Islands (November 19, 2018) – Health City Cayman Islands has been recognised for its commitment to education by the Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce. Along with Dart Enterprises Ltd., Health City Cayman Islands was the recipient of the Commitment to Education award at the 2018 Business Excellence Awards on October 27. Health City was…
Cayman Islands (November 16, 2018) – H.E. Governor Martyn Roper toured Health City Cayman Islands on Thursday, November 15 accompanied by his wife Elisabeth and a group of hospital officials. Governor Roper spent a few hours at the tertiary care medical facility in East End, Grand Cayman and received a full tour of the hospital’s…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (October 30, 2018) – As the world observes Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Health City Cayman Islands is offering breast cancer and other solid tumor cancer patients an opportunity to reduce chemotherapy-induced hair loss through the use of a machine called DigniCap. According to Health City oncologist Dr. Vineetha Binoy, DigniCap is the first…
Cayman Compass | By Staff – October 24, 2018
CAYMAN ISLANDS (September 14, 2018) – Award-winning American videographer Tim Blanton can walk freely without pain thanks to a successful bilateral knee replacement at Health City Cayman Islands, the popular tertiary care medical facility in the Caribbean. Blanton had always been a very active man. As a professional videographer, he regularly filmed underwater videos for…
Cayman Islands (August 30, 2018) – After years of repeated injury, Cayman Islands national rugby player Edward Westin’s shoulder had dislocated over 100 times. Even after corrective surgery, the joint was so damaged that it would dislocate in his sleep. In the first surgery of its kind in the Americas, the Health City Cayman Islands…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (August 8, 2018) – Narayana Health, the Indian health care giant behind Health City Cayman Islands, today announced a December 2019 completion date for a multi-million-dollar comprehensive cancer treatment center at its existing campus in Grand Cayman. Dr. Ashutosh Raghuvanshi, Vice Chairman, Managing Director & Group CEO of the Narayana Health -Group announced…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (July 30, 2018) – The Caribbean could soon become synonymous with high quality, affordable health care, according to medical professionals at Health City Cayman Islands, one of the region’s foremost tertiary care hospitals. Presenting at the 33rd Caribbean Cardiology Conference hosted by the Caribbean Cardiac Society (CCS) in St. Lucia this month, Health…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (July 20, 2018) – The delighted and relieved mother of baby Grayson Reneau from Belize described her experience with the medical experts at Health City Cayman Islands as “unbelievable” after they successfully performed a complex heart operation to give her child a normal life. Jamie Lord said her baby son, Grayson, was born…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (July 3, 2018) – Dr. Garth Rattray of Jamaica checked himself into Health City Cayman Islands for one ailment and was overjoyed to learn he needed treatment for a less complicated condition, one which the Health City cardiac specialists dealt with so quickly and efficiently that he is recommending the clinic to everyone….
Harvard Business Review | by Vijay Govindarajan & Ravi Ramamurti – June 22 2018
WASHINGTON D.C. (May 14, 2018) – Health City Cayman Islands and its founder, Dr. Devi Shetty, won a total of three prestigious awards at America’s largest health care conference meeting in the U.S. capital on Sunday, April 29. A panel of international medical care luminaries assembled by the World Health Care Congress at the 2018…
Cayman Islands (May 4, 2018) – As Earth Month 2018 drew to a close, Health City Cayman Islands released its 2017 conservation statistics – revealing that the tertiary-care hospital has saved over 15 million gallons of water, 6.5 million kilowatts of electricity, almost 400,000 gallons of diesel, and over 9.5 million pounds of carbon since…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (April 27, 2018) – Health City Cayman Islands has been nominated for a Health Value Award in the category of Direct Care Providers by the World Health Care Congress. The tertiary care hospital in Grand Cayman is among 57 finalists from the hundreds vying for a variety of awards in several categories. In…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (April 24, 2018) – As Health City Cayman Islands celebrates its fourth anniversary this month, hospital doctors, management and staff at the Caribbean tertiary care hospital are looking back at a busy 12 months of life-saving emergency procedures, groundbreaking regional firsts, and increased visits by international patients. The Joint Commission International (JCI)-accredited hospital,…
Cayman Islands (March 28, 2018) – Dr. Devi Shetty, Chairman of Narayana Health and the founder of Health City Cayman Islands, has brought the Caribbean tertiary care hospital’s role in his transformation of global healthcare to the international stage at the GREAT Festival of Innovation in Hong Kong. “We built the Cayman Health City with…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (March 26, 2018) – Neurosurgeons at Health City Cayman Islands have restored a patient’s ability to walk by removing a tumor embedded within her spinal cord in a highly-complicated operation. The patient, from Myanmar, was working as a bartender on a cruise ship in the Caribbean when she noticed puzzling symptoms that eventually…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (February 15, 2018) – An American citizen seeking medical treatment for heart failure has been successfully attended to by doctors at Health City Cayman Islands using Cardiac Contractility Modulation (CCM), a pioneering technique unavailable elsewhere in the region. Thanks to the medical team at Health City Cayman Islands, Gerald “Gerry” Johnson now has a…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (January 3, 2018) – A baby from Nicaragua who was treated at Health City Cayman Islands celebrated his first Christmas as a normal, healthy child this year. Jeremias, who is now two-years-old, got a second chance at life early last year when he underwent a complex surgery to place his heart inside his…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (December 21, 2017) – An 80-year-old woman’s life took a turn for the better thanks to intervention by a team of doctors, nurses and physiotherapists at Health City Cayman Islands. Cayman Islands resident Zoe Bodden was still dealing with the effects of the pulmonary embolism she suffered in August 2016. Struggling with her…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (November 27, 2017) – A Jamaican farmer who had a life-threatening case of leptospirosis is thankful for healing, following a pioneering intervention by doctors at Health City Cayman Islands. Clester Christie, a farmer from Jamaica, came to Grand Cayman for work but fell seriously ill a few days after his arrival. Fortunately for…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (November 23, 2017) – Health City Cayman Islands is offering free bone density scans through November 30. World Radiology Day was celebrated worldwide on November 8, and in recognition of the international observance, the tertiary care hospital is providing the free scans for the entire month. Bone density scans, also known as bone…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (October 19, 2017) – For the first time in the Caribbean, Central and South America, Dr. Ravi Kishore, Chief Interventional Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at Health City Cayman Islands, has implanted a Cardiac Contractility Modulation (CCM) device to treat heart failure in a Cayman Islands resident. Dr. Kishore implanted the device in late August,…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (October 4, 2017) – A 33-year-old Caymanian father, son and brother is breathing again – with a sigh of relief – after the Health City Cayman Islands’ medical team brought him back from the brink of death. Bjorn Ebanks’ heart stopped twice, and he underwent CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) for almost 90 minutes before…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (September 25, 2017) – As the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla continues to recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma, relief workers on a humanitarian mission from the Cayman Islands are providing vital medical support to the island’s health care system. Health City Cayman Islands staff nurses Mahesh Kumara and Bijin Mohan…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (September 23, 2017) – Leading Caribbean tertiary care hospital Health City Cayman Islands has been credited by St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Allen Chastanet with raising the bar for the future of health care in the Caribbean. Chastanet, who visited the Cayman Islands last week to meet with medical professionals at the three-and-a-half-year-old facility,…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (September 15, 2017) – In a first for the English-speaking Caribbean, neurosurgeons at Health City Cayman Islands have successfully performed another advanced procedure by surgically removing part of a brain tumor while the patient was awake. The procedure – known as awake craniotomy or awake brain surgery, enables the surgeons to remove, partly…
Cayman 27 | September 12, 2017 | By MARIO GREY
CAYMAN ISLANDS (September 12, 2017) – Health City Cayman Islands is part of a relief effort being coordinated by the Cayman Islands Government to send supplies, medicines and medical staff to Anguilla – a fellow British Overseas Territory. Dr. Chandy Abraham, CEO and Medical Director of the Caribbean tertiary care hospital, said that Health City…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (August 24, 2017) – A family vacation in a tropical paradise turned into a life or death situation for Surjeet Kaur when an unexpected viral infection became a critical health emergency. Advanced life support technology at Health City Cayman Islands, a tertiary care hospital located in East End, Grand Cayman, saved her life….
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (August 15, 2017 ) – After three years of success providing medical services to regional and international patients, a Cayman Islands hospital wants to work with other regional health care providers to meet the urgent demand for high quality and affordable tertiary health care in the Caribbean. Presenting at the Caribbean…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (July 16, 2017) – A leading hospital in the Caribbean is offering another first that could save the lives of heart patients across the Caribbean and the world. Health City Cayman Islands, the first hospital in the English-speaking Caribbean to use robotic navigation for joint replacements and the first to install two artificial…
Huffington Post | June 29, 2017 | By FIONA TAPP
Forbes | June 29, 2017 | By LAURA CARABELLO
HAMILTON, ONTARIO (June 22, 2017) – Canadian boxing champ and Hamilton, Ontario hometown hero Steven “The Piranha” Wilcox successfully defended his belt while fighting for a cause during his recent title bout in Canada. Wilcox, who is now 17-2-1, retained his World Boxing Association-North American Boxing Association (WBA-NABA) Super Lightweight title by defeating Oscar Arjona from…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (Wednesday, May 31, 2017) – On Saturday, 3 June, four Caymanian college students sponsored by Health City Cayman Islands depart for India to undertake a month-long fellowship at Narayana Health, the facility founded by Dr. Devi Shetty on which Health City is modelled. The four students were selected from the highest performing alumni…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (Friday, June 2, 2017) Surgeons at Health City Cayman Islands have made history in the Caribbean after performing life-saving surgery on a child from Nicaragua who was born with his heart outside of his chest cavity. Health City’s Chief Cardiac Surgeon Dr. Binoy Chattuparambil, also fondly known as Dr. Binoy, said the child,…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (June 1, 2017) – Canadian boxing champ and Hamilton, Ontario hometown hero Steven “The Piranha” Wilcox will be fighting for both his belt and a cause with his title bout this weekend. Wilcox is headlining a professional boxing event held by Three Lions Promotions at the Hamilton Convention Center on Saturday, June 3….
TORONTO (May 11, 2017) – Canada has a world class health system, but for some, the wait times for medical procedures are too long. Health City Cayman Islands offers a swifter solution – in the sun. Angie Bugera of Edmonton, for example, needed a hip replacement and waited five months until she could be seen…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (May 5, 2017) – Retired St. Maarten Judge Reuben Essed has received a lifesaving pacemaker for his heart in the Cayman Islands. Judge Essed, one of an increasing number of patients from St. Maarten to receive tertiary care at Health City Cayman Islands, has had a preventative pacemaker implanted by doctors at the…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (April 27, 2017) – Health City Cayman Islands, the renowned Caribbean hospital, has treated more than 29,000 patients since it opened its doors three years ago. Caribbean hospital has treated patients from 60 countries in the past year. As Health City celebrates its third anniversary this month, officials at the Joint Commission International-accredited…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (April 22, 2017) – To coincide with this year’s Earth Day on Saturday, April 22 Health City Cayman Islands has released its 2016 Conservation Report, highlighting results including significantly reduced electricity demands, limited waste output and efficiently recycled rainwater and sewage, culminating in a small environmental footprint for the facility. Health City was…
Cayman 27 | April 5, 2017 | By Joe Avary
The Health Care Blog | April 4, 2017 | By VIDAR JORGENSEN and BRIAN KLEPPER
CAYMAN ISLANDS (March 27, 2017) – Cayman Islands based tertiary care hospital Health City Cayman Islands announced today that direct charter flights to St Maarten will bring patients from that country to the Cayman Islands for specialized medical treatment. Following an agreement between Health City Cayman Islands and SZV Social & Health Insurances, the government-owned…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (March 16, 2017) – Health City Cayman Islands (HCCI) has completed 300 sleep studies, just in time for the 10th global observance of World Sleep Day on Friday, March 17. World Sleep Day, created and hosted by World Sleep Society, is an internationally recognized awareness event bringing sleep health professionals and patients together…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (March 24, 2017) – Canadian boxing champ Steven “The Piranha” Wilcox, holder of the World Boxing Association-North American Boxing Association (WBA-NABA) super lightweight title, defeated Argentina’s Jorge Luis Rodriguez in a weekend match on Saturday, March 18. Wilcox was recently named a Sports Ambassador for Health City Cayman Islands. Proceeds for his upcoming…
