Advanced Practice Nurse International, Clinica Unibe, and Costa Rica MD Services Sponsor at WMT&GHC

Sept. 9, 2010 - PRLog -- The rapid increase in the demand for medical, surgical, and anesthesia services around the world is quickly surpassing the number of qualified providers, with most experts warning of dire shortages of competent and well-trained physicians and nurses. Advanced Practice Nurses, including Nurse Anesthetists, Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Midwives, and Clinical Nurse Specialists, are uniquely positioned to alleviate this crisis, enabling people of all socioeconomic ranks to have access to high-quality, safe, and affordable healthcare. Advanced Practice Nurse International (APNI) is the world’s first and only company offering expert education, consultation, and management services focused on the use of Advanced Practice Nurses on a global level. With a team of internationally recognized experts in Advanced Practice Nursing, APNI offers unparalleled assistance to government bodies, healthcare facilities, healthcare accreditation organizations, centers of higher learning, and medical tourism related organizations.

Clinica Unibe is an ambulatory surgery facility with 5 years of experience. They perform more than 60 kind of surgeries among other eye surgery, plastic surgery, orthopedics, otolaryngology, general surgery, and urology. Clinica Unibe has more than 25 specialist in different areas such us, cardiology, gynecology, maxillofacial, physical therapy, deontologist, pediatrician. They have AAAASF endorsement and recognition, as well as PROMED certification. They also have agreements with hotels and recovery centers as well as rent-a-cars, which give guarantees to their international patients to manage all his or her needs in terms of medical tourism.

Costa Rica MD delivers value and opportunity to its business partners who include medical tourism facilitators, employee benefits administrators, travel professionals, hospitals, medical and dental professionals, and business development managers.  Costa Rica MD offers health travelers and business partners a professional bi-lingual operation that guides them through the alternatives available to them for medical treatment at pre-negotiated rates as well as logistical needs, recovery centers, hotels, and traditional tours. Costa Rica MD Services is a Medical Tourism Facilitator corporation in San Jose, Costa Rica with US based partners who promote an elite and reliable network of medical and dental professionals in Costa Rica connecting individuals and businesses in search of an affordable healthcare option.

“Costa Rica MD Services does not want to miss the opportunity to exchange thoughts and business cards with influential medical tourism facilitators, insurance representatives, employers, and others.  Our goal is to not only gain more insight about the current state and future of medical tourism but also to build our business connections with the industry’s leading minds,” said Heather Wilson, Marketing Director of Costa Rica MD Services.

This is the one event per year where Employers, Self Funded Health Plans, Insurance Companies, and Medical Tourism Facilitators that are looking to outsource healthcare overseas have the opportunity to meet with top International Hospitals and Medical Tourism Companies in one place for the ultimate networking event. As a Bronze Sponsor, Apollo Hospitals will receive multiple benefits including preferred exhibit booth placement.

This year we have allocated a budget to bring in up to 200 "Buyers" of healthcare, including insurance companies, employers, and governments to the congress. The conference will feature up to 2,000 attendees, up to 140 exhibitors and sponsors, and over 100 speakers from over 60 countries. Save the date today by going to the Medical Tourism Congress website and register for this once a year event.  Accomplish in three days what would otherwise take you years to do.  Come to the only medical tourism and international health insurance conference in the world that truly brings together the buyers and sellers of healthcare from all six continents.

The conference is the dedicated annual event of the Medical Tourism Association, the nonprofit trade association in the Medical Tourism industry, http://www.medicaltourismassociation.com, and media partner Medical Tourism Magazine, http://www.medicaltourismmag.com the only dedicated magazine for the medical tourism and global healthcare industry, and by Medical Tourism City, www.medicaltourismcity.com, a social network for the medical tourism and global healthcare industry with over one thousand participants from over sixty countries.

The 3rd World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress will also feature two additional conferences, the Expatriate Healthcare, Travel Insurance and Global Health Insurance Conference, http://www.expatriateconference.com, which focuses on international employers and insurance companies, and the Sustainable Healthcare and Hospital Development Conference, www.healthcaredevelopmentconference.com, which focuses on the growth of medical tourism in the healthcare sector and the building and development of healthcare facilities around the world.

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The 2nd Annual World Medical Tourism & Global Health Congress will feature up to 2,000 attendees from over 50 countries and up to 100 exhibitors and sponsors.