Where To Get Quality Health Care In Panama City, Panama
( www.costaricapages.com) Panama is famous for a lot of things but many people don’t realize just how great health care is in Panama. Panama has two health care systems - public and private. The public institutions are run by the Caja de Seguro Social (Social Security System). Working Panamanians have a set amount deducted from their paycheck, in return they receive free health care and prescription medication from hospitals and clinics within the Social Security System. The health care is good in the public system, but foreigners and Panamanians with extra money usually opt for insurance with the private hospitals. The most popular private hospitals in Panama City are: Hospital Punta Pacifica - the only Johns Hopkins associated hospital in Central America. This hospital is NICE! Located in Punta Pacifica, this is probably the most expensive in Panama, but if you have the money (or private insurance) it’s a great bet. Most of the doctors practicing here speak English. Walking through this hospital you get the feeling that you are in an upper end hotel as opposed to a hospital.
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Clinica Hospital San Fernando- Located on Via Espana in Panama City, San Fernando hospital is another great choice for health care. The rooms are clean and nice and the staff is very friendly. San Fernando Hospital is affiliated with the Miami Children’s Hospital, Tulane University and Miami’s Baptist Health Center. This was Panama’s first private hospital and has a great track record and state of the art technology. San Fernando is also about to open a clinic in Coronado, a tourism and vacation hot spot on Panama’s Pacific Coast. You can easily find English speaking doctors in both locations.
Hospital Nacional- Hospital Nacional began as primarily a women’s hospital more than 35 years ago. It is now an 80 bed facility with more than 100 specialists working out of it. At Hospital Nacional, the nurse to patient ratio is one nurse to 10 patients. The hospital is located in Bella Vista on Ave Cuba. Hospital Nacional accepts international health care plans as well as ambulatory and emergency care for US veterans.
Most larger towns in Panama’s interior provinces also have private and public hospitals, but for the most part are smaller than the ones in Panama City and it can be difficult to find a doctor that speaks English.
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