The File
Metropolitan Hospital
Private general hospital · Neo Faliro, Piraeus
The hospital built around international patients, on the coastal axis rather than in Marousi. Frequently and wrongly described as JCI accredited.
Commercial relationship
None. LivingTheta has no commercial relationship with Metropolitan Hospital or Hellenic Healthcare Group, receives nothing from it, and holds no referral arrangement in this category.
- What it is
- Private general hospital Hellenic Healthcare Group.
- Where
- Ethnarchou Makariou 9, Neo Faliro, Piraeus On the coastal highway axis, which in some traffic patterns is more usable from the Riviera than Marousi.
- JCI accreditation
- No A widespread error. The certifications are ISO 9001 since 2008, ELOT EN 15224:2017, ISO 45001 and ISO 15189 for the laboratories. Do not confuse it with the JCI-accredited Metropolitan Hospital in Ecuador.
- International desk
- Yes, and it is the point of the place International Patients Department under Dr Theofilos Sachinidis. Multilingual, around the clock. +30 210 480 9372.
- What the desk does
- International insurance admissions, cruise and yacht medical coordination, air ambulance, English discharge packs The hospital reports more than 10,000 medical-tourism cases over fifteen years.
- Sister hospital
- Metropolitan General, Holargos Temos International certification for international patients since 2013.
Metropolitan sits at Neo Faliro in Piraeus, part of the Hellenic Healthcare Group, and its distinguishing feature is the International Patients Department: multilingual, around the clock, under an internal-medicine physician, handling insurance admissions, English discharge documentation and air ambulance coordination across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
The JCI correction
It is not JCI accredited, and it does not claim to be on its own certifications page. The claim appears on third-party lists, apparently by confusion with a hospital of the same name in Ecuador.
Its actual certifications are ISO 9001, held since 2008, ELOT EN 15224:2017, ISO 45001 and ISO 15189 for the laboratories. The three JCI hospitals in Athens are Hygeia, Henry Dunant and Athens Medical Center.
When this is the right building
When the insurer names it, when something happens on a boat, or when somebody is being flown in. Those are specific situations and this is the hospital organised for them.
For the ordinary week on this coast the answer remains Mediterraneo and HealthSpot.
