Franco-Vietnamese Hospital

10°43.940′N 106°43.110′E / 10.732333°N 106.718500°E / 10.732333; 106.718500

FV Hospital
bệnh viện Pháp Việt
Thomson Medical Group
Map
Geography
LocationPhu My Hung, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Organisation
TypeTertiary/ Quaternary
Services
Beds220
History
Opened2003; 21 years ago (2003)
Links
Websitewww.fvhospital.com/en/
ListsHospitals in Vietnam

FV Hospital is a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam that was opened in 2003 by a group of French physicians. With its co-founder Dr. Jean-Marcel Guillon as CEO,[1] it has 150 full-time doctors and a staff of 1000 people, attending half a million patient visits in a year.

The hospital is known for its special Division of Oncology named Hope Cancer Center,[2] Obstetric and Gynecology, Pediatric, Ophthalmology, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and Radiology department. Its patients came from 68 countries and territories all over the world.[3]

Founded by private sponsors, the FVH Medicine Vietnam association was established for free-of-charge medical care for children who require surgery.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] In December 2013, the FV Saigon Clinic was opened in the Bitexco Financial Tower in District 1 in Ho Chi Minh City.[11]

In January 2024, it was announced that Thomson Medical Group had completed the purchase of FV Hospital for $381.4 million.[12]

Accreditation edit

FV Hospital was accredited in March 2016, by the Joint Commission International (JCI) in the Hospital Program,[13] becoming the second[14] international hospital in Vietnam to be accredited by Joint Commission International.[15]

Training edit

The hospital has opened admission programs for Elective (medical) and fellowship. MBBS and Doctor of Medicine students from various parts of the world have sought FV Hospital for their internship and fellowship.

Many of them are from Imperial College London, University of Warwick, University of California, Los Angeles, Yale University, University of Stanford, Harvard Medical School, University of California, Irvine, University of Western Australia, University of New South Wales, Monash University and National University of Singapore.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ VIR, Vietnam Investment Review- (2021-02-25). "FV Hospital a private health leader". Vietnam Investment Review - VIR. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  2. ^ "Hy Vong Cancer Care Centre - FV Hospital". Archived from the original on 2016-10-24. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
  3. ^ "Medical tourism in Asia, with a guide to hospitals, procedures and prices, in India, Singapore, Thailand, by Libby Peacock and Ambika Behal, and more from Smart Travel Asia, SmartTravelAsia.com and Dancing Wolf Media".
  4. ^ "FValse - Franco - Vietnamese Hospital".
  5. ^ Newspaper, Tuoi Tre (28 May 2014). "The man with the 'golden' hands".
  6. ^ vietnamnet.vn. "News VietNamNet".
  7. ^ Yuan, Elizabeth (6 January 2012). "Vietnam surgery removes tumor twice man's weight". CNN.
  8. ^ Metro.co.uk, Metro News Reporter for (6 January 2012). "Man has 90-kilo tumour removed from leg during ten-hour operation".
  9. ^ "Surgeons to remove 90kg leg tumour". 5 January 2012.
  10. ^ "Man Undergoes Surgery to Remove 200-Pound Tumor on Leg - Fox News". Fox News. 5 January 2012.
  11. ^ "Bệnh viện FV: Khai trương phòng khám ở Trung tâm Sài Gòn". TUOI TRE ONLINE (in Vietnamese). 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  12. ^ "Thomson Medical Group completes acquisition of FV Hospital". Yahoo! Finance Singapore. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  13. ^ JCI-Accredited Organizations in Vietnam
  14. ^ "JCI-Accredited Organizations | Joint Commission International".
  15. ^ "Home". jointcommissioninternational.org.