Family and Disease
Prevention Month
Health City
Last week's presenter, Sales and Marketing Specialist Jennifer McCarthy spoke to us about our health and how to maintain it. Working for two years now at the new Health City in East End, she was poised to answer all our questions.
Health City, or the Shetty Hospital as some of us know it, has seen 22,737 out patient visits to date, with 2,657 in patients as well as 201 in their sleep study. A joint venture of the Narayan Health and Ascension health Care in the U.S., their market has been primarily adult and paediatric cardiology, however they have expanded to many other areas as well, including recent Oncology Specialist care. They also work closely with Hospice Care in their pain management program.
Now that these many specialists have located to the Shetty Hospital, Cayman has seen a reduction from 300 air ambulance evacuations to 72 this year. Besides critical care, the hospital has embraced their Have a Heart initiative where 100% of funds raised go directly to the program, and that has given 140 surgeries for free or significant discount to children worldwide.
Jennifer encouraged club members to be proactive with their health and to consider Health City's Executive Healthcare; a time efficient, holistic approach to health that puts patients through three sets of screening tests in a day. Most insurance policies have a wellness benefit that will cover all or a large percentage of the cost.
Jennifer is from Canada but has lived and worked in Cayman for 19 years. Granted Caymanian status two years ago, her background is in Broadcast Journalism and Communications. You may remember her as manager of Cayman HospiceCare where she worked for 12 years before she moved to Health City 2 years ago. She now manages the Executive Health Program as well as the non-profit association, Have a Heart Cayman Islands , which provides free and/or subsidized heart surgeries for children from around the world.
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