Globalization is a major part of the business sector, and several U.S. health systems have also grown their roles internationally.
Several providers expanded their work and ideas into other countries. Here are eight hospitals and health systems that created some of the most significant international partnerships in the past year, starting with the most recent.
1. Irving, Texas-based Christus Health finalized a joint venture with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, a Chilean university in Santiago. Under the agreement, the two will become equity partners in a Santiago, Chile-based health network called Red Salud UC.
2. Brentwood, Tenn.-based RegionalCare Hospital Partners partnered with Nashville, Tenn.-based nonprofit LiveBeyond to open a hospital in Thomazeau, Haiti.
3. Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health partnered with YMCI Calmette Medical Investment & Management Company, a state-owned health system in China's Yunnan province. Sanford launched its World Clinics initiative in 2007 to develop a series of pediatric clinics in the U.S. and around the world in areas lacking sufficient primary care services. It has since expanded the scope of the initiative to provide care for entire families.
4. Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine International signed an affiliation agreement with Hospital Moinhos de Vento of Porto Alegre in Brazil.
5. University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center and Chennai, India-based Apollo Hospitals discussed a potential affiliation. Apollo is one of the largest private hospital networks in its region, with 50 hospitals located across India and eight other countries in South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
6. A July agreement between Kazakhstan's Nazarbayev University and Pittsburgh-based UPMC's Pitt School of Medicine will help NU open its first medical school
7. Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center announced its commercialization arm, Wake Forest Innovations, signed a memorandum of understanding with CHA Health Systems, based in Seoul, South Korea.
8. Cleveland Clinic signed a contract with an academic medical center in Beijing, where Cleveland Clinic physicians will consult on the opening of a new brain health facility.
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