Bangkok Hospital is a hospital located in Bangkok

Bangkok

Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...

, Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

. It was opened in 1972 by a team of doctor

Physician

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s, pharmacist

Pharmacist

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s and 30 nurses. Currently the hospital is one of the largest privately-owned hospitals in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

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, and has grown to one of the most advanced hospitals in the world.

Bangkok Hospital Group is Thailand's largest hospital operator with 13 network locations.

In 2007, Group Chief Executive Officer of Bangkok Hospital Group Co.Ltd. Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth received from Kaewkwan Watcharoethai, the Royal Household Secretary-General, the royal warrant appointment to display the Garuda

Garuda

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 emblem.

See also

• List of hospitals in Thailand
• List of hospitals in Bangkok
• International healthcare accreditation
  International healthcare accreditation
  Due to the near-universal desire for quality healthcare, there is a growing interest in international healthcare accreditation. Providing healthcare, especially of an adequate standard, is a complex and challenging process...
  
  
• Medical tourism
  Medical tourism
  Medical tourism is a term initially coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of travelling across international borders to obtain health care...
  
  
• Asian Hospital and Medical Center
  Asian Hospital and Medical Center
  The Asian Hospital and Medical Center, established on March 15, 2002 with Jorge Garcia, MD, an alumnus of the Faculty of Medicine & Surgery of the University of Santo Tomas, as its founding chairman, is the first private tertiary hospital built in the southern part of Metro Manila...