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Henry Dunant Hospital Center

Private general hospital · Mesogeion Avenue, Athens

The second JCI house in Athens, and the one with the most explicit international insurance list — which is often the fact that decides where you go.

An empty hospital corridor, numbered doors and waiting benches under strip light.

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What it is
Private general hospital IMITHEA Group. Purpose-built, opened 2000.
Where
107 Mesogeion Avenue, Athens Central-north axis. Not the coast.
JCI accreditation
Yes, since 2020 A third consecutive three-year reaccreditation was announced in June 2026.
Insurers named
Bupa, Allianz, AXA, Aetna and InterGlobal, Generali Global Health, Europe Assistance Unusually explicit for a Greek hospital. Insurance office: +30 210 697 2409.
Group
IMITHEA 1,360 beds across six clinics plus rehabilitation and IVF.
International desk
A customer service department English documentation is provided. A branded international service of the Hygeia or Metropolitan kind was not found.
Also
Halal and kosher meals on request

Henry Dunant opened on Mesogeion in 2000 and belongs to the IMITHEA group. It received its JCI Gold Seal in 2020 and announced a third consecutive three-year reaccreditation in June 2026.

The insurance list is the useful document

Bupa, Allianz, AXA, Aetna and InterGlobal, Generali Global Health, Europe Assistance. Most Greek hospitals are vague about this; this one publishes it, and for a relocating household the practical question is almost always which building the policy already recognises.

How the insurance side of Greek private medicine actually works is a longer piece, and this list is the cleanest single artefact of it.

What it does not have

A branded international patient service. There is a customer service department and English documentation, which is not the same as the named team at Hygeia or the department at Metropolitan.

And no longevity or executive-medicine programme. This is a hospital.

Sources

  1. Henry Dunant: JCI reaccreditation, June 2026
  2. Henry Dunant: contracted insurance companies

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