Award-winning BDMS joins forces with 48 hospitals of its 6 affiliates, responding to government policy of making Thailand hub of medical tourism with international standard services.

Monday 27 January 2020 13:38
With a continuous holistic improvement to deliver inclusive medical services to target customers in the country and abroad throughout 2019, Bangkok Dusit Medical Services PCL., or BDMS, Thailand's leading private hospital group, has made an unbroken string of global, regional and national achievements. The group is paving the way to the future of medical service business network, increasing confidence among patients, investors, and business alliances.
Award-winning BDMS joins forces with 48 hospitals of its 6 affiliates, responding to government policy of making Thailand hub of medical tourism with international standard services.

International Travel and Health Insurance Journal (ITIJ) Winner Awards 2019: Medical Provider of the Year is a global success and proof of the commitment to enhancing the capacity and innovation of BDMS health services.

It is a major success of Thailand's healthcare industry that BDMS is announced the winner of "ITIJ Awards 2019: as the Medical Provider of the Year," the internationally acclaimed award for the global medical and health industry. This success proves the excellence of services in various dimension of BDMS, one of the world's top five private hospital networks. As one of the largest private hospital operators in Asia Pacific, BDM currently manages a network of 8,000 beds in 48 hospitals covering all regions in Thailand and overseas under 6 major affiliates: 1) Bangkok Hospital Group 2) Samitivej Hospital Group 3) Phyathai Hospital Group 4) Paolo Hospital Group 5) BNH Hospital and 6) Royal Hospital Group. Over 12,000 specialist physicians and 8,000 nurses work under the BDMS's network. In addition, 10 BDMS Centers of Excellence and many of the affiliated hospitals are accredited by JCI (Joint Commission International), an organization in charge of promoting quality and safety in patient care in hospitals around the world.

BDMS earns international investor confidence with grand prizes from 4 regional events.

2019 was a year of success for BDMS in terms of investor confidence considering the number of awards achieved starting from "Finance Asia – 2019 Asia's Best Managed Healthcare Company in Asia," given to BDMS as the company with the best management in Asia, followed by "The Institutional Investor's 2019 Award" an international award that BDMS, as a leading private hospital in Thailand, has been honored by institutions and organizations. This is a proof of BDMS's 47-year commitment to providing high quality medical services with international standards. It is a great honor for the company to be awarded "All-Asia Executive Team, Most Honored Company" from Institutional Investor Magazine, the most trusted magazine for the ranking of companies listed on the stock markets worldwide. Based on the voting of 2,500 investors and analysts around the world with respect to the excellence of the company in many aspects, including strategy implementation for company's success, management that places emphasis on keeping investors and analysts informed, and timely, appropriate, and complete communication and disclosure of company information, BDMS won 3 Asian major awards in the Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals Category as follows:

1) Most Honored Companies: BDMS

2) Special Achievement Awards: Best CEO, Dr. Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth

3) Special Achievement Awards: Best CFO, Mrs. Narumol Noi-am

These prestigious awards reflect the confidence of institutional investors and analysts from around the world in the company's past performances. Following is "AsiaMoney – Asiamoney Asia's Outstanding Awards," two of which were given to BDMS, namely "Overall Most Outstanding Company in Thailand" and "Most Outstanding Company in Thailand – Healthcare." Concluding the success story with "IR Magazine Awards" organized by IR Magazine, a highly trusted magazine by investors around the world for over 25 years, BDMS won 2 awards: "Best Investor Relations Officer" and "Best in Country: Thailand." The IR Magazine Forum & Awards is an internationally renowned event and one of the best awards event in the field of investment relations. These are the extension to BDMS's unstoppable business growth and the ever rising confidence among investors both at home and abroad.

BDMS supports government policy to make Thailand a center of global health tourism.

With the expansion of medical tourism industry and Thailand's health care market from growing international patients demand from around the world, BDMS focuses on upgrading services to meet consumer needs, to strengthen Thailand's medical service industry, to attract patients from around the world, and to realize the government policy of making Thailand the medical tourism hub. This commitment results in Bangkok Hospital and Samitivej Hospital winning 7 awards from the Global Health and Travel Award 2019, organized by Global Health and Travel, a top magazine for tourism and health promotion in the Asia-Pacific region for the 4th consecutive year. Bangkok Hospital has been selected as Hospital of the Year Thailand 2019 for 4 consecutive years and also received another 4 awards, consisting of "2019 Neurology Service Provider of the Year in Asia Pacific," "2019 ENT Service Provider of the Year in Asia Pacific," "2019 Diabetes Service Provider of the Year in Asia Pacific" and "Health Screening Service Provider of the Year 2019." Meanwhile, Samitivej Hospital received 2 awards, namely "The Best Hospital for Woman of the Year 2019" of the Asia-Pacific region, and "2019 Gastroenterology Service Provider of the Year." All of these achievements, which are our pride as the leader of the Asia-Pacific region, reflect our international standards and expertise of the medical team, nurses, and other personnel who truly devote themselves to the medical service improvement, resulting in confidence and trust earned from patients, both Thai and international, who visit us in an increasingly larger number.

Additionally, "BDMS Wellness Clinic" with a focus on globally popular trend of preventative health care also won 3 awards in the Asia Pacific level, which include "Integrated Health and Wellness Provider of the year Asia-Pacific 2019," "Integrated Health and Wellness Provider of the year Thailand 2019," and "Best Anti-Aging service provider of the year Asia-Pacific 2019."

BDMS joins forces with business alliances to strengthen capacity in comprehensive health services.

BDMS has collaborated with business partners of various industries to develop and invent new approaches to the improvement of Thais' health. Apart from partnering with CNN to produce "Vital Signs," an original series to educate people of health care in a different style, BDMS also works with Ping An Good Doctor, the world's leading integrated medical and healthcare platform with 289 million Chinese users. The platform offers general and specialized medical check-up packages covering services for serious illnesses, such as cancer screening, heart & brain screening. Chinese patients can find information and book for these packages via Ping An Good Doctor Application to receive a check-up in Thailand and long-distance counseling services (tele-consultation). Users will be able to access such information and services at 8 hospitals in the BDMS network, namely Bangkok Hospital Group, Samitivej Hospital Group, Phyathai Hospital Group, and BNH Hospital in the application Ping An Good Doctor.

Award-winning BDMS joins forces with 48 hospitals of its 6 affiliates, responding to government policy of making Thailand hub of medical tourism with international standard services. Award-winning BDMS joins forces with 48 hospitals of its 6 affiliates, responding to government policy of making Thailand hub of medical tourism with international standard services. Award-winning BDMS joins forces with 48 hospitals of its 6 affiliates, responding to government policy of making Thailand hub of medical tourism with international standard services.