Emirates Speciality Hospital

Dubai, UAE

American Hospital Dubai, founded in 1996 by the Mohammed & Obaid Al Mulla Group, was the first hospital in the Middle East to receive Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation, in May 2000, and has renewed it multiple times since. A roughly 250-bed acute care hospital in Oud Metha with around 280 physicians across more than 30 specialties, it became the first healthcare organisation in the Middle East to join the Mayo Clinic Care Network in June 2016. The hospital's Comprehensive Cancer Center, Heart Center, and Total Joint Replacement Center anchor its clinical reputation, supported by a robotic surgery programme built around a 4th-generation da Vinci system — the first of its kind in Dubai. Its laboratory was also the first private lab in the Middle East to earn College of American Pathologists (CAP) accreditation, in 2001.

JCICAP

Dubai, UAE

Clemenceau Medical Center Dubai, part of the Clemenceau Medicine International network alongside sister hospitals in Beirut and Riyadh, opened around 2020 as the first hospital in Phase 2 of Dubai Healthcare City in Al Jaddaf. Owned by a consortium of Khansaheb Investments, CMC SAL (Lebanon), and Dubai Investments, the hospital holds an academic affiliation with Johns Hopkins Medicine International through a Visiting Physician Program. JCI-accredited since 2022 and licensed by the Dubai Health Authority, the 100-bed hospital operates more than 55 subspecialty clinics spanning cardiology, oncology, orthopaedics, neurosurgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, and robotic surgery, supported by a dedicated International Patient Services department offering multilingual coordination, visa assistance, and remote second opinions.

JCI

Dubai, UAE

King's College Hospital London – Dubai, which opened in 2019 in Dubai Hills Estate, is a $200 million joint venture between Al Tayer Group, Dubai Investments PJSC, and UK-based Ashmore Group, operating under the clinical governance and brand of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London. The 100-bed hospital houses Dubai's only DHA-licensed liver transplant service, performing the city's first liver transplant in January 2024, and has also carried out the region's first awake craniotomy. Its Surgical Review Corporation (SRC) Centres of Excellence in Spine Surgery and Breast Health were the first of their kind in the UAE. The hospital covers more than 60 specialties, with senior clinicians and department heads recruited directly from King's College Hospital in London.

SRC