AmeriMed American Hospitals in Mexico -- Medical Facility Opens Today in Los Cabos.Health & Medical Writers PHOENIX--(BW HealthWire)--Feb. 23, 2001 AmeriMed American Hospitals, a network of medical facilities providing U.S. quality health care in resort cities of Mexico, Friday opened a hospital in Los Cabos Los Cabos is a municipality located at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, in the state of Baja California Sur. It encompasses the towns of Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo, as well as the Resort Corridor that lies between the two. , Mexico. With facilities also operating in Cancun and Puerto Vallarta Puerto Vallarta (pwār`tō väyär`tä), city (1990 pop. 93,503), Jalisco state, W Mexico. Located on the expansive Bahía de Banderas [Bay of Flags], Puerto Vallarta has been used since the 16th cent. , Mexico, AmeriMed caters to tourists and travelers, foreign business professionals and local residents who are interested in private health care. AmeriMed facilities are staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week with English-Spanish bilingual physician specialists and staff specializing in emergency medicine. Translators for major languages of the world are also available. "We're Mexico's answer to 911," Dr. Marcus Engelman, AmeriMed's founder and president, said. "Should an unexpected injury or illness occur, AmeriMed offers American-style, high-tech hospitals and a team of top notch medical experts not previously available in Mexico's resort areas." Since opening in November 1996, the Puerto Vallarta facility has served more than 25,000 patients with medical needs ranging from "heat rash heat rash n. An inflammatory skin condition caused by obstruction of the ducts of the sweat glands, resulting from exposure to high heat and humidity and characterized by the eruption of small, red papules accompanied by an itching or prickling to heart attack, broken arms to brain trauma." The Cancun facility, opened in February 2000, has had similar success. Located in downtown Cabo San Lucas Cabo San Lucas (popularly known as just Cabo) is a small city at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula at , in the municipality of Los Cabos in the state of Baja California Sur, Mexico. , AmeriMed's newest facility includes an operating room operating room n. Abbr. OR A room equipped for performing surgical operations. ; shock-trauma, examination, hospitalization, and intensive care rooms; as well as a clinical laboratory -- with capability for providing immediate results -- and an imaging suite with X-ray and ultrasound capabilities. A full stock of medications and supplies is available in the AmeriMed pharmacy. The facility, like other AmeriMed hospitals, will be used as a medical teaching hospital, where AmeriMed will train physicians and health care providers on the latest U.S. procedures. AmeriMed has courtesy transportation available to and from the patient's hotel or residence. AmeriMed can also arrange for emergency air evacuation services worldwide. All hospital rooms are private and include conveniences, such as telephones with direct long distance dialing, and computer generated and archived patient records. AmeriMed has relations with many worldwide insurance companies. Dr. James McAlllister Delgadillo is director of the Cabo San Lucas hospital, which has a full time staff of 30. AmeriMed is the brainchild of Engelman, former medical director of the emergency department at St. Joseph's Hospital St. Joseph's Hospital may refer to: In the United States:
While on vacation in Rosarito, Mexico seven years ago, he witnessed a serious car accident and stepped in to provide critical care for a young Mexican girl. Engelman rode with her to the nearest hospital, but it didn't have the proper equipment needed to save her life. While the ambulance weaved through the back streets of Tijuana to a second hospital, he worked feverously Fe´ver`ous`ly adv. 1. Feverishly. to keep her alive. Fortunately, the second hospital did have adequate equipment, but the doctor never forgot the difficult conditions he had experienced. Today, Engelman is dedicated to AmeriMed and implementing its "where time means life" philosophy throughout Mexico and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . "In addition to our new Cabo San Lucas operation, we're expanding the Puerto Vallarta facility," he said. "Plans also call for new facilities in Cozumel, Playa del Carmen Playa del Carmen is a city on the coast of the Caribbean Sea in the north east of the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, located at 20.62° North, 87.07° West. The city is the seat of the Solidaridad municipality. , Palmilla -- Los Cabos, Puerto Penasco and the Caribbean basin The Caribbean Basin is generally defined as the area running from Florida westward along the Gulf coast, then south along the Mexican coast through Central America and then eastward across the northern coast of South America. ." AmeriMed is headquartered in Phoenix. For additional information, visit www.amerimed-hospitals.com. |
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