CAYMAN ISLANDS (June 20, 2022) – Adding to its long track record of surgical firsts in the Cayman Islands and the Caribbean, Health City Cayman Islands continues to establish itself as a leader in the innovative delivery of medical care with the introduction of robotic assisted laparoscopic surgeries using the da Vinci X surgical system….
Health Minister says new Health City Oncology Day Care Suite at Camana Bay represents hope
CAYMAN ISLANDS (May 23, 2022) – The number of people living with various forms of cancer is on the increase and against that backdrop, the Cayman Islands’ Minister for Health and Wellness, Hon. Sabrina Turner, has described the opening of a new Health City Cayman Islands treatment facility as a ray of hope. As part…
Health City Cayman Islands founder promises expanded educational opportunities, as staff are rewarded for excellent service
CAYMAN ISLANDS (May 17, 2022) – Dr. Devi Shetty, the world renowned cardiac surgeon whose vision it was to create Health City Cayman Islands, has said he plans to further establish the internationally accredited specialty hospital as a leading medical education institution serving the Caribbean and other countries in the Western Hemisphere. Already renowned for…
Health City answers call to be ‘Gold Corporate Guardian’ for East End Primary School PTA
CAYMAN ISLANDS (February 9, 2022) – Health City Cayman Islands has been named as named as “Gold Corporate Guardian” for the East End Primary School Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) for 2022 after making a CI$10,000 donation to support the group’s activities for the year ahead. The funds have been earmarked to support initiatives such as field…
Ground broken on new specialty hospital in the Cayman Islands
CAYMAN ISLANDS (January 27, 2022) – Health City Cayman Islands, which already features a 110-bed hospital in East End, Grand Cayman, today broke ground on a project that will see a 70,000 square foot modern, state-of-the art medical facility being built on three acres of land to the south of Camana Bay on the outskirts…
Health City Cayman Islands is first private facility in Caribbean to offer ground-breaking COVID-19 treatment
CAYMAN ISLANDS (November 24, 2021) – Health City Cayman Islands has today announced that it has acquired a supply of Ronapreve, a monoclonal antibody treatment that can help COVID-19 patients recover faster and avoid hospitalisation, and death, making Health City the first private facility in the Caribbean to offer the ground-breaking treatment. Monoclonal antibody treatment…
Lung Cancer Screening promotion for November
November is lung cancer awareness month and Health City Cayman Islands is offering its “Scan Earlier. Breathe Easier.” targeted lung health check program. The campaign targets people who are: 50 years and older Have a history of smoking Current smokers and those who have quit within the last 15 years People who meet the criteria…
Antigen Rapid (Lateral Flow) Test Kit Now available at Health City
CAYMAN ISLANDS (October 20, 2021) – The ACON Biotech FlowFlex® SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Test Kit uses the latest technology to deliver fast results to show if a person is carrying the COVID-19 virus. It is easy to use, affordable and accurately delivers results within 15 minutes. The Kits are Cayman Islands Government approved. Using a…
Health City Cayman Islands acquires Rapid Lateral Flow Test Kits
Self-administered tests provide results within 15 minutes. Will soon be made available to the public. CAYMAN ISLANDS (October 13, 2021) – With the Cayman Islands Government indicating that rapid antigen (lateral flow) tests will be approved as part of its strategy for adapting and responding to living with COVID-19 in the community, Health City Cayman…
Health City Cayman Islands celebrates successful summer of education programs
CAYMAN ISLANDS (September 29, 2021) – Health City Cayman Islands is celebrating a record intake of 18 students at the recent completion of its seventh annual Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program. The tertiary arm of Health City’s Healthcare Explorers education program, the SURF program is open to high-performing Caymanian high school and university students…
Health City Cayman Islands Celebrates Grand Opening Of Camana Bay Clinic
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….
Health City Progresses Camana Bay Project
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 Urges People of Cayman to be Vaccinated Against COVID
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 Camana Bay location opens
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 opens to the Sister Islands
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…
Health City Cayman Islands Announces Plan to Move Forward with Expansion
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,…
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A child’s life-saving journey of 8,000 miles and 200 day
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…
Health City founder Dr. Devi Shetty hopes to inspire future Caribbean doctors
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…
Shetty aiming to build Cayman medical school
Cayman Compass | By James Whittaker – December 14, 2020
Health City to begin testing for COVID-19 ‘immunity’
Cayman Compass | By James Whittaker – June 1, 2020
Health City Offers Beds, Ventilators to National Treatment of Covid-19 Patients
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…
30K Full PPE kits arrive thanks to partnership between CI Government and Health City
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…
30,000 PPE kits arrive in Cayman from China
Cayman Compass | By Reshma Ragoonath – April 30, 2020
Doctors urge public not to avoid hospitals in emergencies
Cayman Compass | By Reshma Ragoonath – April 24, 2020
CrossFit trainer competes in half-marathon after Health City knee repair surgery
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…
Health City founder Dr. Devi Shetty featured in Netflix documentary
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…
Health City streams live endoscopic procedure at medical education event
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….
On Your Mark, Get Set, Eat!
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,…
Newsweek names Health City parent company flagship hospital among world’s best
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…
Health City To Open Camana Bay Location
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…
Testing 2.0: How the new antibody tests work
Cayman Compass | By James Whittaker – June 29, 2020
Health City Begins Covid-19 Antibody Testing
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…
Health City hopeful over ‘immunity’ transfusions
Cayman Compass | By James Whittaker – June 8, 2020
Young Girl Travels From The Amazon To Grand Cayman For Life Changing Surgery
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…
Health City Surgeon To Receive CMEx Award
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….
Health City Cayman Islands breaks ground for purpose-built cancer treatment centre
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…
Scaling heights for Have a Heart: Julia Stenson climbs for charity
Cayman Compass | By Laura Durston -November 20, 2019
Fortune Magazine Hails Dr. Devi Shetty’s Narayana Health
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…
It’s 2040: How Did American Healthcare Become The Best In The World?
Forbes | By Robert Pearl, M.D. – October 1, 2019
Health City Cayman Islands’ Medical Team Saves the Life Of Man Stabbed in the Liver
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 Trauma Team Saves Impaled Car Accident Victim
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…
Shetty sees digital future for healthcare
Cayman Compass | By James Whittaker – July 8, 2019
Shetty: Cayman can be ‘capital of medical tourism’
Cayman Compass | By James Whittaker – July 4, 2019
Health City Cayman Islands Donates To NFL Alumni
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…
Revolutionary New Device Lengthens Leg, Reduces Pain At Health City Cayman Islands
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…
Roatán Mother Grateful After Brain Tumor Removed In Cayman Islands Surgery
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…
New Program Aims to Promote Robotics
Cayman Compass | By Mark Muckenfuss – January 31, 2019
Health City Cayman Islands expands Intensive Care Unit capabilities
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…
A Life-Changing Christmas Gift: Surgery Repairs Guatemalan Baby’s Heart
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…
Wait Times Aren’t Worth It: Renowned Health City Cayman Islands hospital providing wait-time relief to Canadian patients
Ottawa Life Magazine | By Dan Donovan – December 14, 2018
NFL Alumni Partners With Health City Cayman Islands
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…
Health City Wins Award For Commitment To Education
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 Governor visits Health City Cayman Islands
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…
Health City Offers Free Hair Loss Reduction Technology For Chemo Patients
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…
Dr. Shetty Named as Chairman of Management College
Cayman Compass | By Staff – October 24, 2018
Award-Winning American Videographer Receives New Knees In The Cayman Islands
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…
A Regional First As Surgeons Repair Rugby Player’s Shoulder
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…
Narayana Health Announces Comprehensive Cancer Treatment Center In Cayman By 2019
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…
Health City Physicians Share Caribbean Cardiology Firsts At St. Lucia Conference
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…
Health City Heart Surgeon Gives Belizean Baby Normal Life
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…
Jamaican Doctor’s Heart Condition Cured in the Cayman Islands
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….
Is This the Hospital That Will Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?
Harvard Business Review | by Vijay Govindarajan & Ravi Ramamurti – June 22 2018
Health City Cayman Islands and Dr. Devi Shetty Win World Health Care Congress Awards
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…
Health City Cayman Islands releases 2017 conservation statistics at close of Earth Month
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…
Health City Cayman Islands Nominated For 2018 Health Value Award By World Health Care Congress
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…
Four Years Of Medical Innovation At Health City Cayman Islands
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,…
Dr. Devi Shetty Brings Health City Cayman Islands’ “Phenomenal Story” To A Global Audience
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…
Delicate Spinal Surgery Saves Woman From Paralysis
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…
Tennessee Man Successfully Treated For Heart Failure In The Cayman Islands
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…
Nicaraguan baby celebrates first Christmas after getting second chance at life
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…
Rare Surgery At Health City Gives Octogenarian New Lease On Life
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…
Pioneering technique saves Jamaican farmer’s life in the Cayman Islands
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…
Health City Cayman Islands offering free bone density scans through November
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…
Another first as Health City Cayman Islands introduces new device to treat heart failure
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,…
Caymanian Man Brought Back To Life After Heart Stops Twice
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…
Hurricane Irma relief efforts continue in Anguilla
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…
St. Lucia open to exploring opportunities with Health City
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,…
Health City Cayman Islands Performs Brain Surgery With Patient Awake
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…
Caymanians Touch Down In Anguilla For Rescue Efforts
Cayman 27 | September 12, 2017 | By MARIO GREY
Health City Cayman Islands Joins Hurricane Irma Relief Effort
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…
Advanced Life Support System At Health City Saves Visitor’s Life
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….
Health City Cayman Islands Partners With Region On Tertiary Health Care
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…
Health City Cayman Islands Offers New Cryo-Procedure For Atrial Fibrillation
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…
Why Canadians Are Increasingly Seeking Medical Treatment Abroad
Huffington Post | June 29, 2017 | By FIONA TAPP
Employers Are Destined for Health Quality and Cost Savings
Forbes | June 29, 2017 | By LAURA CARABELLO
Canadian Boxing Champ Retains Title While Fighting For Charity
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…
Caymanian medical students off to India for training
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…
Health City Surgeons Return Toddler’s Heart To Chest Cavity
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,…
Canadian Boxing Champ Fights For Charity In Title Bout
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….
