The Royal London Hospital at Whitechapel in the United Kingdom is one of the oldest operating healthcare facilities in England. The Victorian-era hospital – often associated with the grittiness of the capital’s East End – was redeveloped and funded through a £1.1 billion PFI.
Following its redevelopment, the new hospital reopened its doors in March 2012 and is now one of Britain’s largest, most advanced healthcare facilities. The new hospital has 1,248 beds, an increase of 186 on the previous facility, with over 40 percent in single rooms with en suite facilities. Wards are light and airy with natural ventilation and separate areas for women and men, and the 22 operating theatres are one-third larger than their predecessors.
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The New Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Hospital in Kuwait was selected for being the country’s first pilot healthcare Public Private Partnership (PPP) project. Financing the hospital is set to be a pathfinder transaction for a country increasingly turning to project finance to fund its growing public infrastructure needs. The new physical medicine and rehabilitation hospital scheme involves a design-build-finance-operate-transfer model for a 500-bed hospital on the existing hospital site in the Al Andalus area in Kuwait City. Overall the project falls under the country’s planned overhaul of the Kuwaiti healthcare system under a five-year development plan from 2010-2014.
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The US$586 million Kayseri Integrated Health Campus will be the country’s first ever healthcare PPP featuring a 1,048-bed general research and training hospital, a 200-bed rehabilitation hospital, a 200-bed psychiatric hospital and a 100-bed high-security criminal psychiatric hospital. The hospital is being procured under the Turkish Ministry of Health’s Health Transformation Program and is a welcome sign for a dynamic new and emerging market for PPPs.
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The new Bahia Suburbio Hospital in Salvador is also the first Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the healthcare sector in Brazil. The PPP was enabled by the International Finance Corporation and the government of the state of Bahia to dramatically improve emergency hospital services in one of the country’s most underserved urban districts.
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The Integrated Health and Water Management Project in Bahia is supported by the World Bank and was highly praised by the judges and singled out for critically addressing the need for clean water and sanitation. The impact of this project will be felt by at least 10 selected municipalities most affected by infectious intestinal diseases. Crucially, the project will vastly improve neonatal care in 25 hospitals reducing the infant mortality rate.
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Judges were impressed with the US$120 million Queen Mamohato Memorial Hospital in Lesotho, a small landlocked country surrounded by South Africa. This is a landmark healthcare project in Sub-Saharan Africa and was built to replace the deteriorating 450-bed Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in the capital city Maseru. Another torchbearer for PPPs, the scheme promises to transform healthcare services and will be the country’s main public hospital with 390 beds and clinical and non-clinical services supporting two million people.
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The US$1 billion Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) in Melbourne, Australia will create an alliance of leading clinical and research organizations to drive the next generation of improvements in the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer. According to the judges, VCCC is to be praised for its innovation and leadership in cancer care. Once complete, it will become one of the main centers contributing to cancer research.
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Malaysia’s IIUM Teaching Hospital in the city of Kuantan on the coast of the South China Sea is another project that can be considered a pathfinder for the country to benchmark itself against the rest of the world. It combines the positive social benefits of basic healthcare provision with medical education. The hospital will offer treatment and teaching in a range of specialist areas, including cardiology, neuroscience, obstetrics, gynecology and oncology, among others.
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The new 14-story Rush building in Chicago – with a ‘green’ rooftop water harvesting system – has been designed by renowned Chicago-based architect Perkins+Will and is set to be the first healthcare project in the world to receive LEED gold certification. Another unique feature is the McCormick Foundation Center for Advanced Emergency Response – the country’s first facility for mass care of casualty patients in the event of a chemical, radiological, or biological disaster.
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The new C.S Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor is offering the “same extraordinary medicine” in a “new extraordinary building” which has achieved LEED silver certification. The hospital already offers one of the country’s leading pediatric care facilities, the Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital and a center for adult and pediatric bone marrow transplants.
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