University Hospital and Medical School Construction Project

The project key players:

• Saudi Jordanian Investment Fund (SJIF) a Limited Public Shareholding Company that is fully owned by the Saudi Jordanian Investment Company (“SJIC”), a subsidiary of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (“PIF”).
  SJIF was formed in 2017 and registered per the Jordan Investment Fund Law number 16 for 2016, specialized in investing in Jordan’s infrastructure and high growth sectors.
• Saudi Jordanian Fund for Medical Educational Investment Company (SJFMEI)  - a subsidiary of SJIF
• Hill International - Philadelphia USA headquartered construction and project management company
• Two of the most prestigious institutions in the world in the fields of healthcare and medical education, to be announced later.

The project goals:

• university hospital with 330 beds, 72 outpatient clinics
• a children’s hospital
• a medical school with the capacity for up to 600 students with a projected enrollment of 100 students annually.
• five medical centers of excellence, each focused on providing care for the most common and fastest-growing non-communicable diseases in Jordan and the region, including cardiology, oncology, neurology, gastroenterology, and orthopedics
• four centers conducting advanced research in the fields of genomics and precision medicine, stem cells and regenerative medicine, health systems and public health, and bioinformatics.
• provision of a higher quality-of-care standard at affordable prices through leveraging the individual excellence of medical professionals in Jordan
• provision of a robust system and ethical governance framework
• elevate the quality of medical education in Jordan through offering a rigorous world-class education that is research-driven, results-oriented, and grounded in the highest ethical standards and clinical excellence
  

Hill International, the American construction consulting firm with operations across the globe, has announced that it has  been awarded a prestigious contract to provide construction management services to the Saudi Jordanian Fund for Medical Educational Investment Company (SJFMEI), a subsidiary of the Saudi Jordanian Investment Fund (SJIF), for a new US$400 million healthcare project in Amman, Jordan.

Work will be implemented in partnership with two of the most prestigious institutions in the world in the fields of healthcare and medical education.

Hill Regional President Middle East Abdo Kardous said of the award: “This new healthcare project will raise the level of care for the entire Jordanian population and set a new standard in patient well-being. We are excited to support such a transformative healthcare infrastructure program and look forward to realizing the SJFMEI’s vision as planned.”

Hill Chief Executive Officer Raouf Ghali added, “Healthcare projects and programs are growing in scale and complexity around the world, and SJFMEI’s new project is as ambitious as it is necessary. Hill specializes in achieving such bold healthcare projects, and in helping our clients realize their goals of delivering improved care for their citizens.”

The Saudi Jordanian Investment Fund 

The Saudi Jordanian Investment Fund (SJIF) is a Limited Public Shareholding Company based in Amman, Jordan. SJIF was formed in 2017 by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (92% ownership) and 16 commercial and Islamic Jordanian banks (8% ownership), and is registered according to the Jordan Investment Fund Law No. (16) of 2016.

With a capital commitment of $3 billion, SJIF pursues strategic, sustainable, and economically feasible investments in Jordan’s vital and promising sectors. In align with the values and goals of Vision 2030 of Saudi Arabia, the SJIF focuses on infrastructure projects and public - private partnerships which are likely to increase the efficiency of the Jordanian economy.

Saudi Jordanian Fund for Medical and Educational Investments Company

The Saudi Jordanian Fund for Medical and Educational Investments Company (SJFMEI) is a Private Shareholding Company based in Amman, Jordan which is fully owned by the Saudi Jordanian Investment Fund (“SJIF”), a Jordan-based Limited Public Shareholding Company. The SJFMEI is a recently established company with the mission of developing the above transformational project in Jordan’s healthcare sector.

The Jordanian Healthcare System

The healthcare system in Jordan is one of the most advanced in the Middle East, although services remain highly concentrated in Amman. Jordan was ranked by the World Bank to be the number one medical tourism provider in the Arab region and among the top 5 in the world, as well as being the top medical tourism destination in the Middle East and North Africa.

The country’s health care system is divided between public and private institutions. In the public sector, the Ministry of Health operates 1,245 primary health care centres and 27 hospitals, accounting for 37 percent of all hospital beds in the country; the military’s Royal Medical Services runs 11 hospitals, providing 24 percent of all beds; and the Jordan University Hospital accounts for 3 percent of total beds in the country. The private sector provides 36 percent of all hospital beds, distributed among 56 hospitals.

In 2009, the Jordanian Government made a strategic decision to address quality and cost challenges in the healthcare system by investing in an effective, national e-health infrastructure. Following a period of detailed consultation and investigation, Jordan adopted the electronic health record system of the US Veterans Health Administration VistA EHR, more formally known as the VistA Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS), an open source electronic health record (EHR ) system developed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). It is a proven, national-scale enterprise system capable of scaling to hundreds of hospitals and millions of patients.

Over 70% of Jordanians have medical insurance.

The King Hussein Cancer Center is the only major specialised cancer treatment facility in the Middle East. It is one of the top cancer treatment facilities in the world and the first oncology centre outside the USA to attain the prestigious JCI accreditation. It attracts patients from around the world, even from the west.

Primary clinics supply rapid access medical care along with vaccinations, maternity and childcare and quick treatment for chronic conditions. Until recently, healthcare in Jordan lacked a formalized home healthcare system. Without this system, patients needing long-term care must remain in acute care facilities for weeks, even months, at a time. Since the implementation of Jordan’s home healthcare initiative in 2017, the industry has trained 300 health professionals and gained the participation of 28 healthcare facilities, both public and private. The country is currently expanding home healthcare policy while other countries in the Middle East lack a structured home healthcare system, putting Jordan at one of the most modern healthcare systems in the region.

Medical Tourism

The World Bank ranked Jordan as being the top medical tourism destination in the Middle East and North Africa, followed by Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Israel.

Jordan's revenues from medical tourism exceed one billion dollars annually and more than 250,000 patients from other countries seek treatment in Jordan annually. Treatment costs can be as low as 25 percent of costs in the US.

Amman. Jordan's Capital City

Amman, Jordan's capital city, is the largest city in the Levant region and the fifth largest city in the Arab world. With a population of over 4 million, it is the political, economic and cultural capital of Jordan and one of the oldest continually occupied cities in the world with a history stretching back to the 8th millennium BC. One fascinating feature of the city is the Neolithic site known as 'Ain Ghazal, where the world's oldest statues of the human form have been unearthed.

During the Iron Age, the city was known as Rabat Aman and served as the capital of the Ammonite Kingdom. It was subsequently part of the Egyptian Empire and a centre of Hellenistic (Greek) culture before becoming a province of the Roman Empire. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, the city alternated between periods of devastation and abandonment and periods of relative prosperity as the center of the Balqa region. Amman was largely abandoned from the 15th century until 1878, when Ottoman authorities began settling Circassians there.

Amman's first municipal council was established in 1909 and in the twentieth century the city became home to thousands of refugees from Palestine.

Amman is among the most popular locations in the Arab world for multinational corporations to set up their regional offices, alongside Doha and only behind Dubai.

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