The Hospital Metropolitano (Metropolitan Hospital) in Costa Rica continues its growth and announced the opening of between 15-20 service centers in 2018; it also signed a collaborative agreement with Sanford Health.

The Metropolitan Hospital was born in 2010, and Grupo Montecristo is the majority owner, currently it has more than 30 service centers between clinics, hospitals and corporate doctor offices. Francis Durman, spokesperson of the Metropolitan Hospital, confirmed they will continue with their expansion plans with new services both in and out of the Great Metropolitan Area.
The announcement was also made that Sanford World Clinic is providing strategic and operational support to the Hospital Metropolitano health system as it experiences this dynamic growth across the country.

Sanford World Clinic was launched in 2007, supported by philanthropy, the initiative is designed to foster partnership with health care leaders in the development of sustainable services around the world.

“With these partnerships, we are creating unique opportunities for shared learning,” said Kelby Krabbenhoft, president and CEO of Sanford Health. “This is not something we are pursuing for financial gain, but we believe this type of collaboration will help further our mission of health and healing.”

In the case of the Metropolitan Hospital, Sanford will share knowledge and medical practices to better the attention in the three excellence centers developed by Hospital Metropolitano: oncology, mental health and cardiology. The international firm will also support the objective of performing surgeries in the most efficient way possible and in this way offering quality medical services with lower costs.

The Hospital will share knowledge with Sanford World Clinic regarding its prepaid medical care service MediSmart.

“I believe we will also contribute with them in the topic of medical tourism. We can support them in procedures that are very expensive in the United States; in Costa Rica we can provide the same level of excellence as they offer but with controlled costs”, explained Durman.