FAM "Familiarization" Trip to Jordan Announced

West Palm Beach, FL, May 29, 2009 --(PR.com)-- The Medical Tourism Association has announced a FAM “Familiarization” trip to Jordan on July 14th-17th 2009. The goal of the trip is an introduction to the high quality of healthcare in Jordan, as Jordan is known as having some of the highest quality healthcare in the region, and some of the top JCI accredited hospitals. The FAM trip will include tourism activities that a patient could engage in such as a visit to the dead sea and to the old city of Petra.

Spaces are limited, and Medical Tourism Association members gives first priority on spacing to MTA members. Airfare and Hotel Accommodations are being sponsored by:

JTB, JEDCO, Jordan Hospital, King Hussein Cancer Center, Specialty Hospital and Israa Hospital

The Medical Tourism Association is the first international non-profit association made up of the top international hospitals, healthcare providers, medical tourism facilitators, insurance companies, and other affiliated companies and members with the common goal of promoting the highest level of quality of healthcare to patients in a global environment. Our Association promotes the interests of its healthcare provider and medical tourism facilitators members. The Medical Tourism Association has three tenets: Transparency, Communication and Education.

The Medical Tourism Association seeks to provide transparency in both quality of care and pricing. Every day we see more and more that the globalization of healthcare has created a very flat world. We exchange technology, information, communication, physicians and patients. In order to ensure patient safety, it is our goal to create a transparency about the quality of healthcare that can be found in each country. With this, it is increasingly important to create a transparency in pricing as well so patients traveling overseas for care can be sure of what they are receiving without hidden costs or unforeseen expenses. The Medical Tourism Association is also working on the Quality of Care Project, which will change the way we look at the reporting of global healthcare statistics and the quality of care available at hospitals around the world.

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