Our mission
The mission of the Medical Travel Quality Alliance (MTQUA) is to advance patient safety and medical excellence for medical tourists by encouraging, developing and promoting professionalism in medical travel and health tourism, quality in patient care management, and awareness of the unique needs of medical travelers.
MTQUA advocates for higher standards of patient care management in medical tourism among all providers.
What is quality in medical tourism?
Completing a successful medical journey involves more than the patient and his or her practitioner and/or provider at opposite ends of the journey, at the medical destination and in the home town. Undertaking medical treatment in another country has a complexity in and of itself that is significantly different from having the same treatment at home. Little of this complexity is appreciated or understood within the medical tourism community. It is our desire to shed light on this complexity, and on what it takes for a patient who chooses to travel from home to another country to have a successful medical journey, with the best outcome possible.
MTQUA was initiated by our peers and colleagues in April 2009 at the 2nd European Congress on Health Tourism in Budapest, Hungary.
Be a Medical Travel Quality Partner
MTQUA Partners actively work with their providers, suppliers and support services to promote quality outcomes and safety for medical tourists.
Become a Medical Travel Quality Partner.
MTQUA World’s Best Hospitals for Medical Tourists™
MTQUA annually publishes the list of the top 10 World’s Best Hospitals for Medical Tourists™, recognizing the hospitals that best meet our criteria for quality in patient care management for international traveling patients. To nominate a hospital as a World’s Best Hospitals for Medical Tourists™, please contact us.
Certification in medical tourism
The MTQUA certification program in medical tourism is being revised.
