Bumrungrad Hospital: Most Expensive and Worst Hospital in Thailand

[PattayaMale]

GT, something went horribly wrong for you.

 

I am a real fan of Bumrungrad hospital. I have taken several people their when they have told me that the service from Bangkok Hospital Pattaya was not working. Not one of the people I have taken there had anything but compliments. Not all those I took were Farang, one was Thai. I had a serious heart problem that they solved and the service was excellent the 3 times I have been hospitalized. My insurance company reps, Blue Cross, have even told me that they hear great things from other world wide patients who use Bumrungrad.

 

After reading your post I tried to figure out what went wrong. Of course I am guessing here, but it seems that you said they suggested you not check him in through the emergency and sorta demanded they do it your way. (This is how I read your post). I believe they actually gave you the right advice. By going through the clinic, your boyfriend would have seen a specialist, not an emergency room doctor. You would not have had to wait. They would have wheeled him up, taken his vitals and blood work, and you would have had a report in about 45 minutes and talked to a specialist. But as you said "you knew what you wanted" and wanted them to do it your way....which was the problem.

 

The Emergency room doctor had him check into a room and they gave him medication.....so he would not have to wait "4 hours". The emergency room is usually for things like heart attacks, people bleeding profusely, etc. as you know. The emergency room just makes them stable or stops the bleeding. If you would have did what the hospital wanted I think you would have been happy. In my opinion, it is very hard for us Americans to believe that the Thais know what they are doing. Since their English is not as good as ours, it is easy not to understand what and why.

 

Going through the clinic you pay at the end of the procedure. The emergency room wants money up front because if it is a true emergency (life and death), you may not be able to pay....especially if you die.

 

Just yesterday I went with my Thai friend to Bumgrungrad for his yearly check up. They treated him with great respect in every way. I started to follow him around to make sure they didn't make any mistakes (as an American I thought they would do a better job because I was watching!) My friend suggested I go get a cup of coffee and he would call me when he saw the doctor to give him the results. (At 27 he is not a kid he has said). So I waited for the doctor. My friend went in first and the first thing the doctor said after hello was to my friend. He asked him in Thai if it was ok for me to hear the results. My friend said sure and the doctor was very through in explaining everything to both of us (Thai and then English). At one point I said to the doctor "he understands English" (I was afraid they would try to hide something from me..I mean Thais do that, right?). The doctor very calmly and politely said "good, then he can understand it when I speak both in Thai and English", (smile, smile).

 

Now GT if you don't agree with me, you need to tell the hospital administration. I truly believe they need and want to know this.

 

As to the room. If there was not a private room available, it is just because you were at the end of the cue. They would have no reason not to give you one if it was available. I had to "endure" a semi private room when they were having me relax and being prepped for surgery. It is just as you described. The only difference is when they were shaving my groin, the visiting family wanted to peek in and see what the nurses were doing. I "demanded" that the nurses clip the curtain shut and have one stand guard so the peepers would not be able to peep. (Damn it, I am an American!!!!) I really was upset. My Thai friend put it in perspective and said, "you really don't have much to see". How dare he say that...both in English and then Thai!!!! The nurses started to laugh which made it worse. But I survived.

 

I hope your boyfriend did too!

[Guest taylorsquare]

[i]Last year I went to the emergency room in the USA had an ultra sound , xray , saw a GP and got no medication,

 

The bill was $1480 or about 50,000 baht.[/i]

 

 

jUST A question about the USA.if you go to a public hospital emergency room,do they still charge you money?

What if you are unemployed or a pensioner?

[Guest rainwalker]

PattayaMale wrote: By going through the clinic, your boyfriend would have seen a specialist, not an emergency room doctor. You would not have had to wait. They would have wheeled him up, taken his vitals and blood work, and you would have had a report in about 45 minutes and talked to a specialist. But as you said "you knew what you wanted" and wanted them to do it your way....which was the problem.

 

Who knows exactly why the experience was as bad as it was but it was obviously not a good time for you and your friend and I would have to go along with PattayaMale's read on the situation.

 

I have had good luck with the majority of my dealing with Thai hospitals but those dealing have never been on an emergency basis. They have always been scheduled in advance.

 

I've had three significant surgeries in Thailand. One at Bumrungrad, one at BNH and one at Bangkok Pattaya and all have gone well. Bumrungrad was first class, attentive, and complete in facilities (yeah, Starbucks); BNH was the most friendly and the doctor I chose had a bedside manner that was magnificent, and Bangkok Pattaya felt the slickest and most revenue driven.

 

For me, medical issues are a two step process: diagnosis and then corrective action.

 

If there's something wrong that isn't time sensitive, I'll get a diagnosis from a specialist referred by the reception desk at the hospital and then jump on the "Internets" and do my own research on whatever he/she said.

 

If it's just a course of medication, the process stops there; I'll buy my pills and take them and wait....

 

But if surgery is required, the situation gets more complicated

 

If I'm satisfied that what they said was correct, or at least in the general vicinity of correct, I'll go online to try to find out which hospital has a strong reputation in the field required (some places have opened a proficient and specialized "center" to attract clients) and then visit those hospital websites.

 

Most hospitals here have a fairly complete online listing of medical staff with their credentials, specialties, schools attended etc, and I look at the C.V. of the doctors in that specialty at each of them, trying to determine who has the experience and skills that I need.

 

I'll choose one doctor at each of three hospitals and book an appointment with them for a second opinion. Usually I can get in to see them within 72 hours for confirmation of the diagnosis; what I really want from that meeting is to see who I like and trust to cut me.

 

I don't believe that a "doctor is God" and for years, I have been the one who makes the decision as to treatment based on a medical professional's advice. Like Fox News, they report; I decide.

 

It is, after all, my body - such as it is - and that makes it all about me.

 

I hope that any emergency situation that I run into is handled a hell of a lot better by the hospital than the experience that you had.

[Guest thaiworthy]

I had a bad case of food poisoning last year. I got to my doctor just in time, because by then I had it coming out both ends! He sent me to the emergency room. I had to lay on a gurney in a hallway with an IV for 4 hours. They had taken blood samples and were as busy as bees. I was dismayed at the lack of attention I was getting at the time, but in retrospect, it wasn't nearly as bad as what you went through.

 

I think you did the right thing. You were 3 steps ahead of the game by going to the ER of the best hospital you knew of. You said if it had been you instead, you might have reacted differently. RW is correct, but he is speaking for himself and perhaps about care involving only for himself, as I did by merely going to my usual doctor. However, when we are in an emotional state, we want the best and quickest care, especially when that care is for a loved one. So your concerns and behavior are certainly understandable. It is amazing how the human body reacts in these circumstances. Maybe an adrenalin rush was responsible. You must certainly love him very, very much.

 

It is impossible to know whether going to the clinic would have been a better solution. One could argue coulda, woulda, shoulda forever and a day. It's hindsight. On another day, given similar circumstances, your experience might have been different. Better staffed, different time, I don't know. While grossly inexcusable, health care has other motivation to its existence. It is not an altruistic entity as we might like to think. It's also about money. And that is why there is also a McDonald's on the first floor. After all, GT did say they can "eat shit," and maybe they do!

[Guest jtrack33]

Finally and GB, I have found Bangkok Christian Hospital to be a great supplement to Bumrungrad for: blood tests such as a lipid profile and medicals and dentist and skin ailments. (The go-for boys at the reception in the afternoon/evenings in waistcoats are so cute and love to escort you around the place). I take the blood test report to my cardiologist in Bumrungrad and he enters in the data onto my "chart" without batting an eyelid. I did point out some years back that I was not prepared to pay Bht3,000 for a test that I could get done at a much more conveniently accessible hospital for Bht600 and he agreed.

BCH also now has a big new wing at the back with more modern facilities. I have always found checking in and out to be so easy and the staff are so friendly and polite...but of course, they don't normally cater to international clients.

By the way, I have noted there is never any comment about Bangkok Hospital on Petchaburi road. This is the big sister of Bangkok Pattaya Hospital and Bangkok Nursing Hospital. It has a grand piano and string quartet playing in the foyer in the evenings...and prices to match...avoid the heart department at all cost(It cost me Bht550,000 for 3 stents that failed in 3 months and then I had to get a by-pass at Bumrungrad 3 months later).

[Guest gay_grampa]

I too would like to praise Bangkok Christian Hospital. It's on Silom Road right opposite the United Center and about a 2 minute walk south from the Patpong/Silom junction.

 

The doctors there are very well qualified to deal with almost any complaint and if they don't have the equipment in the hospital then they refer you to a place that does.

 

The service is fast and efficient and inexpensive. A Thai friend of mine had a high temperature and stomach upset similar to GT's friend and he was dealt with immediatly. Kept in overnight, plus all the tests, drips, doctor's visits etc ... the cost 7800 Baht and in a private, airconditioned room.

 

My hospital of choice for myself in Bangkok is BNH on Convent Road. It's like a 4-5 star hotel with outstanding doctors, nurses and dental staff. But, it is getting expensive now so I may change to Bangkok Christian if they raise their prices much more.

 

I have also heard good reports from St.Louis Hospital on South Sathorn Road but never been there.

[Gaybutton]

I have also heard good reports from St.Louis Hospital on South Sathorn Road but never been there.

A woman, somewhere around 80 years old, a devout Catholic and family friend, had been coming to Thailand annually to teach English at a Catholic mission somewhere around Udon Thani. During her last trip she suffered a massive stroke. She was taken to St. Louis Hospital in Bangkok. They saved her life and according to everyone who was with her the care she received was outstanding.

 

The point is that there is no "best" hospital in Thailand. There are excellent hospitals, but to me just how excellent they are depends upon the doctors and staff.

 

I think most of us are aware of the reputation enjoyed by Bumrungrad. On the other hand, I doubt any of us believe GT is making up or embellishing his story. If he says it happened the way he described, then it happened the way it described.

 

Just about everyone who has been to Bumrungrad was very pleased with the treatment and results they received. That's precisely the reason why GT chose Bumrungrad. He had no way of knowing what was wrong with his boyfriend and he wanted him checked out by the best of the best, where he knew he would receive excellent care. Well, he didn't get it. What he got was just the opposite. The treatment his boyfriend received wasn't what any of us would have expected of Bumrungrad. GT's story describes the kind of treatment his boyfriend might have received at Dachau General, but that shouldn't have happened at Bumrungrad.

 

Quite frankly I think it is wrong that some people posting are making excuses for the way his boyfriend was treated or they are minimizing it by calling it a minor stomach ache, which means that he is entitled only to third rate treatment because the staff must have been dealing with "real" patients. None of us other than GT were there and he had no reason to make up such a story. I think it is totally unreasonable to assume GT overreacted to a minor problem. But even if he did, how does that justify the treatment his boyfriend received?

 

I'm sorry, but a hospital has no business ignoring one patient in favor of another unless an emergency required it. A doctor has no business giving third rate treatment and follow-up to any of his patients. If nothing else, during that 30 seconds he spent with GT's boyfriend, if he was dealing with emergencies he could have said so. I wonder how many of you would like for GT to give you the name of that same doctor and then make an appointment with him.

 

While obviously most of you who have been to Bumrungrad received excellent, high quality care, it is just as obvious that GT's boyfriend and GT himself were both treated miserably and I see no excuse for it.

 

Would I still go to Bumrungrad? Yes, I would. It's a good hospital, but it isn't the only good hospital. What happened to GT is most likely an isolated incident, but if I find other, less expensive hospitals that also have a good reputation, then if something happens to me I'm going to have some decisions to make. Based on the posts I'm seeing here, now I would most likely choose Bumrungrad only if they have medical equipment that would be necessary to treat my case if the same equipment can't be found elsewhere.

[Guest]

GT, sorry to hear of your bad experience and hope your boyfriend is now 100% healthy!

 

Last night he ate for the first time in a few days and I was happy to see that. He got up to walk around the apartment for a bit and he looks much better. Thanks!

 

I'm the friend GT had lunch with and if this was a restaurant review I would laugh because GT has terrible taste in restaurants.

 

LOL. I choose guys very well. Food is not as important to me as my choice boys. And, if I do say so myself, I have an amazing guy in Thailand. Not the perfect guy for anyone other than me, but he is a stunner.

 

Of course I am guessing here, but it seems that you said they suggested you not check him in through the emergency and sorta demanded they do it your way. (This is how I read your post). I believe they actually gave you the right advice. By going through the clinic, your boyfriend would have seen a specialist, not an emergency room doctor. You would not have had to wait. They would have wheeled him up, taken his vitals and blood work, and you would have had a report in about 45 minutes and talked to a specialist. But as you said "you knew what you wanted" and wanted them to do it your way....which was the problem.

 

An emergency room is simply that. Maybe I am a drama queen but that is what I wanted. The doctors and nurses did not ever question me taking him there. They were happy for the business. The only one that said anything was a desk clerk who didn't want to fill out the paperwork for a new patient. Once he got his hospital card, we went straight to see the doctor. The doctor was nice, friendly and competent. I wish I had opted to stay in the Emergency ward as that was an option. They actually suggested that we get a room as he needed at least one IV drip and some Xrays and said the Emergency room would get busy and noisy and he may be more comfortable in a room. I said OK and asked for a private room. None were available We went to a double. No problem for me. The doctor in the Emergency room charged 500 baht.

 

It was once we were in the room that another doctor came in and ordered all the blood work, Xrays, etc I spoke to that doctor and wanted to be sure I would not miss him when he returned with the results. I went to Starbucks for some coffee and checked in with the nurses station to make sure they knew I would be back. I was gone 5 minutes and then returned. Other than that, I was in the room with him.

 

The room sucked, the doctor sucked, the nursing staff sucked, the experience sucked. Yes, I know others have great experiences there and think it is amazing. Personally, I love Bangkok Pattaya and will go there over and over even though I hear bad reports from there. I have only gotten quality care there and will go back again.

 

It is, after all, my body - such as it is - and that makes it all about me.

 

I hope that any emergency situation that I run into is handled a hell of a lot better by the hospital than the experience that you had.

 

I could not agree more. I have spent months in hospitals with my mother when she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Like that situation, I took her to the best place I could which was a choice of 3 hospitals in the USA. She choose one in Houston, Texas and I drove her 24 hours to get there. We spent 3 months in the hospital there. It was a excellent care facility and I was very impressed. I also spent time with friends in NYC when they would get sick and there were good hospitals and bad ones. In the end, you are right, it is your body and you have to make the decisions. The BF made his choice based on the options given him. He choose the hospital and to go to a room as opposed to stay in the Emergency Room. It was a bad choice that night. Luckily, it was not a life or death choice.

 

I think you did the right thing. You were 3 steps ahead of the game by going to the ER of the best hospital you knew of. You said if it had been you instead, you might have reacted differently.

 

It was the best choice of all our options or so I thought at the time. In retrospect, BNH would have been better for us listening to all the comments about it on this thread.

 

My hospital of choice for myself in Bangkok is BNH on Convent Road. It's like a 4-5 star hotel with outstanding doctors, nurses and dental staff. But, it is getting expensive now so I may change to Bangkok Christian if they raise their prices much more.

 

Thanks. I will give it a try.

 

I doubt any of us believe GT is making up or embellishing his story. If he says it happened the way he described, then it happened the way it described.

 

Quite frankly I think it is wrong that some people posting are making excuses for the way his boyfriend was treated or they are minimizing it by calling it a minor stomach ache, which means that he is entitled only to third rate treatment because the staff must have been dealing with "real" patients. None of us other than GT were there and he had no reason to make up such a story. I think it is totally unreasonable to assume GT overreacted to a minor problem. But even if he did, how does that justify the treatment his boyfriend received?

 

I have no reason to make anything up or embellish it. I used words that many may have found offensive that I would rarely use on a message board and in retrospect would have omitted them. I have the ability to remove them now but will not as that was part of the initial post and my reaction to an experience. I am a New Yorker at heart and my mouth is a potty mouth. Always has been and always will be. I try to separate my mouth from the way I write. I wasn't successful on it with this post.

 

GB, I don't think there is any excuse for the experience we had. I grew up around doctors in my home and know what professional care is supposed to be. It was not received on our visit this time.

 

When you have someone you care about in pain, you want to see them better. You can't quite sit back and relax and just let things work out. I have been in too many situations where I had to be the advocate at a hospital. You have to step up and take charge of your experience and make sure you get the best quality of care you can.

 

Thailand is filled with great doctors and hospitals. My Emergency room doctor was great but the one we got when we went to the room was not.

 

I will say this about the hospital, the Starbucks is fantastic!

[Guest Hedda]

"I used words that many may have found offensive that I would rarely use on a message board and in retrospect would have omitted them. I have the ability to remove them now but will not as that was part of the initial post and my reaction to an experience." Gay Thailand

 

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it." Omar Khayyam

 

Go back and delete them. We've come a long way since the Rubaiyat was written nine hundred years ago. If and when Bumrungrad sues you for defamation, the presence of those four-letter words is going to ruin your defense of good faith. Just kidding, of course, but I thought the folks who installed an edit button in the software must have had some purpose in mind.I can't think of a better time or place to use it.

[Gaybutton]

Go back and delete them.

Maybe he should simply replace the words with "expletive deleted"

[Guest kjun12]

My experiences at Bumrunggrad have been good, with the exception of my last visit. That was for an eye exam. The doctor was rushed and most of the work was done by an assistant. The doctor just did not seem to have any time for me. I agree with Gay Thailand. At their prices one should get top notch service.

[Guest thaiworthy]

. . . I thought the folks who installed an edit button in the software must have had some purpose in mind.I can't think of a better time or place to use it.

 

Maybe they should install an ignore button instead.

[PattayaMale]

GT,

When I read your post, I misunderstood. I got it backwards.

 

I still hope you will let the hospital administration know of the problem. It would certainly help us that use this hospital. The administration of this hospital will hopefully help make sure this does not happen again

[Guest jtrack33]

The hospital CEO I believe is an American with vast experience in the medical field(MASH Field Hospital perhaps). He should be made aware of the problems. I certainly believe GT's account unreservedly, even though I feel at home there and have found their management to be superb when it comes to major operations and recovery. But the peripheral staff leave a lot to be desired. I have had appalling service from their dentist, skin specialist and hernia specialist. As a result I have taken by business elsewhere for those specialties only.

 

But GT, I did mention "By the way, I have noted there is never any comment about Bangkok Hospital on Petchaburi road. This is the big sister of Bangkok Pattaya Hospital and Bangkok Nursing Hospital. It has a grand piano and string quartet playing in the foyer in the evenings...and prices to match..." above and feel, as a satisfied Pattaya user of this group, then you should be very comfortable with the parent hospital. I believe it is not spoken of much because not many farangs know where it is. It is on Petchaburi Road but back behind other buildings(Near RCA)...but is a sprawling complex of separate specialist hospitals, with some fine dining. The infrastructure and facilities are second to ???who knows really, but I am pretty sure they have at least everything Bumrungrad has....I believe also they are the only Thai hospital that uses stem cells.

http://www.bangkokhospital.com/eng/CentersAndClinic.aspx

 

I have spent some time in the Emergency clinic...as they use it for a waiting area for guests waiting for the free courtesy buses to BTS Thong Lor!!!

As you probably have a hospital number at Bangkok Pattaya Hospital, there should be no need for you to register there in Bangkok.

[khaolakguy]

 

GT's story describes the kind of treatment his boyfriend might have received at Dachau General, but that shouldn't have happened at Bumrungrad.

 

 

 

Comparing Bumrungrad with a hospital at Dachau is silly and offensive.

 

I have always been happy with treatment at BNH, although as others have written, their prices have increased recently and while they were once a non profit making organisation, I believe that this has changed in the last few years.

[KhorTose]

I am reading this after days of being away from the board. Your BF got sick, you rushed him to the best hospital you knew of, they gave him service that was less then expected by you, but now he is getting better.

Sounds like they did at least do what is the minimum expected of them, which is cure him. Having worked in a top rated VA hosptial for the last 17 years I know that even the best ran places do get strecthed thin at times when it comes to staff, and their ability to always be on top of everything. Like it or not there are things and people that money cannot buy. I really feel--based on many members comments--that this is not a bad hospital, and maybe just maybe, you expected special treatment because of your financial status. I may be wrong but that is how I read it. The word that I think Hedda should have used was "perspective", and I really think it may be appropiate to use here. Sorry, but as I was relating to another board member the other day, I have this nasty habit of telling people what I think they should hear and not what they want to hear. Hell, I call it friendship and my comments are meant to be taken in that light. That does not mean that I am aqlways right, but it does mean I am giving you an honest opinion. Some people appreciate this kind of approach some don't.

[Guest]

Go back and delete them. We've come a long way since the Rubaiyat was written nine hundred years ago.

 

Here we go again. You can't use words like Rubaiyat that I have to look up.

 

Maybe they should install an ignore button instead.

I think they have an ignore button.

 

GT,

When I read your post, I misunderstood. I got it backwards.

 

Not your fault. I was writing in such a frenzy that I didn't put as much detail into the first post as I should have.

 

But GT, I did mention "By the way, I have noted there is never any comment about Bangkok Hospital on Petchaburi road. This is the big sister of Bangkok Pattaya Hospital and Bangkok Nursing Hospital. It has a grand piano and string quartet playing in the foyer in the evenings...and prices to match..." above and feel, as a satisfied Pattaya user of this group, then you should be very comfortable with the parent hospital. I believe it is not spoken of much because not many farangs know where it is. It is on Petchaburi Road but back behind other buildings(Near RCA)...but is a sprawling complex of separate specialist hospitals, with some fine dining. The infrastructure and facilities are second to ???who knows really, but I am pretty sure they have at least everything Bumrungrad has....I believe also they are the only Thai hospital that uses stem cells.

http://www.bangkokho...sAndClinic.aspx

 

I am actually headed there this week for a checkup. I have their Platinum service and will see how I like the one in Bangkok as opposed to the one in Pattaya.

 

I really feel--based on many members comments--that this is not a bad hospital, and maybe just maybe, you expected special treatment because of your financial status. I may be wrong but that is how I read it.

 

Yes, most definately wrong. I do not expect special treatment because some people think I have money. I do not dress or act like I have any money and do not talk about it with someone from a hospital. However, when you say you are the best hospital and your prices are higher than other hospitals and you cater to a clientele that expects good service........you know where I am headed.

 

I did not want Special Treatment. I wanted good treatment and good service. I got neither. Lesson learned for me.

[firecat69]

[

GT

 

I agree you should expect good service any business that you go to. Unfortunately hospitals are a little different and especially in their emergency rooms. It is impossible for the them to staff because unlike other businesses they have no way of knowing when they will be busy.

 

This does of course not excuse a dirty room or staff that is not trained properly but your BF who I also adore (don't hurt me) did get seen and given medicine that apparently helped.

 

In most big city hospitals in the USA, you would have waited at least 3 or 4 hours to see a doctor if you were lucky. And although I know you didn't see a specialist this time, the last time you went for your foot you saw a specialist in minutes. In the USA it would have taken you 3 weeks to get an appointment.

 

Now as to price Bumrungrad is definitely not as expensive as Bangkok Pattaya. I have been to Bangkok Pattaaya, saw a GP , had blood tests and given medicines where the bill was 8000 baht . My friends bill 3 days ago seeing a speicalist, xrays, ultrasounds, blood work and urine test was 10,000 baht . No comparison.

 

Bangkok Pattaya pushes pills. If you take their prescription to a local druggist, you will pay 40% less for the medicine. I did just that with my friends prescription from Bum. and I could have saved only 10- 15%.

 

Bum"s prices are same or less for most procedures as BNH. That BNH and Bum are the most expensive Hospitals in Bangkok, there probably is no doubt.

 

You have to pay for having the most specialists on staff and the newest equipment. If you have a hangnail go to a public hospital.

 

If you have a heart attack, stents or brain surgery or anything else serious, I would go to Bum. in a second. It doesn't take long surfing the various Thai message boards to come up with case after case where serious problems were either mis -diagnosed or badly treated at Bangkok Pattaya.

 

Pay for the ambulance and head to Bum or BNH if you have more then the common cold etc.

[Guest HeyGay]

Why you go to Bummy, when you have 2 fabulous Hospitals on your Door step. I dont think this Hospital can be beaten, even Bummy goes there for some of its services.

http://www.chulalong...hospital.go.th/

 

Even the fact that Chulalong Hospital is 69th Worlds Best Hospitals, is enough for me.

 

Pattaya and Bangkok must be one of the worst. according to a few Western Doctors I know.

 

also

http://www.bnhhospital.com/

 

Most people I know say these 2 hospitals are much better Places to go for a good service, then again many people say Bummy, is very good also. so take your pick,

 

It sounds as though you had a Bummy deal, may be if you went again, it would be a better service, so many people say its the best Hospitals in the World, they must be doing something right.

 

Bummy is 750th in the world ranking of best hospitals.

[PattayaMale]

It is always important to check the "fine print" when researching something.

 

I believe the site you went to had this as an introduction:

 

The Cybermetrics Lab is publishing this Webometrics Ranking of World Hospitals from a purely academic point of view and as such it should be used. The Web indicators applied does not measure at all the quality of patient's treatment and health care offered by the hospitals included. So please be aware that if you are looking for the best place to treat a health condition this ranking is not appropriated for such a search.

 

Here are all the hospitals in Thailand with JCI accreditation. I believe the accreditation lasts for 3 years. Then hospitals must re-certify.

 

Bangkok Hospital Medical Center

Bangkok, Thailand

Program: Hospital

First Accredited: 30 June 2007

 

Program: DCSC Certification

Acute Coronary Syndrome

First Certified: 30 October 2008

 

Program: DCSC Certification

Breast Cancer Conserving Therapy Program

First Certified: 1 November 2008

 

Program: DCSC Certification

Heart Failure Program

First Certified: 29 October 2008

 

Program: DCSC Certification

Primary Stroke Center

First Certified: 31 October 2008

 

Bangkok Hospital Phuket

Phuket, Thailand

Program: Hospital

First Accredited: 23 May 2009

 

BNH Hospital

Bangkok, Thailand

Program: Hospital

First Accredited: 29 May 2009

 

 

Bumrungrad International

Bangkok, Thailand

Program: Hospital

First Accredited: 2 February 2002

Re-Accredited: 8 April 2005

Re-Accredited: 31 July 2008

 

Program: DCSC Certification Program

Primary Stroke Program

First Certified: 28 October 2006

 

Program: DCSC Certification Program

Acute Myocardial Infarction with ST Segment Elevation

First Certified: 28 October 2006

 

Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital

Bangkok, Thailand

Program: Hospital

First Accredited: 11 August 2007

 

Samitivej Sriracha Hospital

Chonburi, Thailand

Program: Hospital

First Accredited: 8 November 2008

 

 

Samitivej Sukhumvit Hospital

Bangkok, Thailand

Program: Hospital

First Accredited: 27 January 2007

 

Program: DCSC Certification Program

Lung Cancer Program

First Certified: 6 December 2008

 

Program: DCSC Certification Program

Acute Myocardial Infarction Program

First Certified: 4 December 2008

[Guest HeyGay]

I have been meaning to write this post for some time, as some of you may know I have been hit by a very serious HPV virus, that could have killed me, with in a short time, I was having it seen to at the Bumrangrad Hospital with in the terms of my Insurance, but I felt they were just interested in getting as much money from me as fast as they can, by building up the bill, I said to my Consultant Doctor very clever man, he said well the is a Private Hosital as your insurance has now finished, if I was you come with me to where I Teach in the afternoon, it will be less than a 1/4 of the price. http://kanchanapisek...hula/chula.html at Chulalongkorn University Hospital, This is a proper Hospital the Nurses are equivalent of our UK MacMilain Nurses only interested in getting you better, constantly caring professional and I can not give this Hospital enough of the credit it deserves, that saved my life.

 

The only down side is, only the Doctors and some Nurses speak English, but you get around this and you may have to wait longer for treatment, but as far as quality of your treatment, I can honestly say its twice as good as Bumrungrad Hospital with all the same and better equipment in some cases.

Its conveniently located opposite the end of Soi twilight on the other side of the road.

 

 

 

 

[Guest geronimo]

Your mileage may vary.

 

I have had surgery at Bumrungrad and have gone to the same doctor for years for follow up. Costly yes, worth it to me.

 

I go to an opthamologist at Rutnin -- completely satisfied.

 

I have briefly gone to BNN for emergency as well as for tests related to a different problem -- completely satisified.

 

I have gone to Chula mostly because I wanted some expensive meds for less -- completely satisifed.

 

St Louis the doctor diagnosed me incorrectly, I think, so not satisfied.

 

Bangkok Phuket -- mixed experiences. Decided to have surgery in Bangkok instead. This is the hospital that I have used more than all other hospitals combined.

 

Phuket International -- mixed experiences

 

Wachira Phuket -- one experience, minor matter, satisfied.

 

Patong Hospital -- mixed, mostly sub par and expensive as well.

 

Too much medical, but that is over a decade. I am hoping now that I am planning to spend more time in Cambodia that I am well enough to make it to Bangkok, if need be.

[Guest]

I can not give this Hospital enough of the credit it deserves, that saved my life.

 

So sorry about your medical issues. I am glad you are doing better and that they saved your life.

[Guest HeyGay]

Thank you GT yes I caught something called HPV virus in the back of my throat, it has been zapped and I have to go back next month to see if its cured, they think it is, but all very worrying and Chula Hospital had all the right and latest equipment to save my life, one of only 4 machines in Thailand.