Medical Travel Cost Savings and Quality

As healthcare costs continue to rise in Western countries such as the US and Canada patients are becoming increasingly frustrated, leading them to seek medical care abroad. Waiting times are also getting longer within national health services, making some people’s lives very difficult. There is nothing worse that preparing for a surgical procedure only to have it canceled on the same day it had been scheduled for.

What is often called "global healthcare" or "medical tourism" provides a beneficial solution for the patient and also helps the country they travel to. Medical tourism in Mexico is very popular with people in the US and Canada because of the close proximity of the country.

Medical tourists are encouraged to travel for medical care when they have easy access to international travel, see the rise of advanced treatments in developing countries, and note the careful attention they receive by governments that welcome international patients.

These benefits all apply to medical tourism in Mexico because the country's largest private hospital network, Angeles Health International, has an international base in Tijuana, a city just across the US border. The hospital employs Stanford trained physicians and provides spacious personal rooms and attentive nurses.

Cost savings add to the attraction of medical tourism. At Angeles hospital patients enjoy shorter or non-existent waiting times, high quality medical expertise, superior care and attentiveness and medical costs that are just half or in some cases a third of the price they would pay at home.