As suggested by its banners, ‘the awakening of the slumbering giant’ has occurred at The Landmark Center in the Fenway area, with the recent opening of Best Buy and now WorldPath Medicine, LLP, an international health care provider.
WorldPath hosted a three-hour meet-and-greet yesterday to celebrate the opening of its new office at the center. An estimated 85 doctors, heads of hospitals and council members turned out for the casual discussion and celebration.
‘Today we are celebrating four years of hard work,’ said Stanley Tam, WorldPath president and chief medical officer.
Founded in 1998, WorldPath provides healthcare at Boston hospitals for international patients who cannot obtain proper health care in their own countries. It also assists clients by coordinating travel arrangements and special accommodations through WorldPath’s partnership with the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston. Interpreters are provided throughout all stages of the medical process for patients who cannot speak English.
家伙Rochman,董事长兼首席执行官of WorldPath, emphasized the company’s focus on universal health care.
‘WorldPath is committed to maintaining the highest standards of medical care, delivering exceptional personalized services to our patients, their families and their physicians in the country of origin, and sustaining our unwavering commitment to the good health, comfort and well being of every individual in our care,’ he said.
WorldPath also provides nutritional services, exercise programs, holistic medicine, diet assessment, weight management, lifestyle and behavior modification, stress management and continuing patient health education with seminars and workshops.
Surgeons Rochman and Tam co-founded WorldPath in 1998 after a trip to the United Arab Emirates.
‘We were invited to the United Arab Emirates to put together a plastic surgery clinic,’ Tram said. ‘We refused because there were more problems over there than plastic surgery.’
According to Tam, diabetes is one of the region’s most rampant medical problems. An estimated 20 to 25 percent of the adult population in the United Arab Emirates suffers from the disease.
WorldPath also currently serves clients in Russia and Greece and has plans to set up operations in Canada and Taiwan. It manages the international programs for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, New England Baptist Hospital and Mount Auburn Hospital.
The internet is vital to the company in coordinating operations and assisting communications, Tam said.
‘It plays a central role because WorldPath’s idea is to partner with local doctors and international clients,’ he said. ‘Robust information technology networks facilitate this partnership.’
WorldPath moved its headquarters from the Joslin Diabetes Clinic to the Landmark Center two months ago. Tam said the new office’s central location was advantageous with its close proximity to area hospitals in the Longwood Medical Area.
Marty Burke, WorldPath’s public relations representative, said the relocation was also financially beneficial.
‘[The move] is great for the local economy,’ he said. ‘It brings in a lot of money.’
