Historical Background
Medical Associates Hospital is a private health institution located in the first capital city of Trinidad, St. Joseph.
Established in 1979, Medical Associates started as a small twelve bedded institution, in a renowned great house, standing on St. Joseph hill, overlooking the majestic Samaan trees of George Earle Park.
Through the vision and efforts of its directors and dedicated staff, the institution continues to grow. This expansion has seen growth in physical infrastructure, providing additional bed spaces, dedicated areas for outpatients’ clinics, laboratories, cardiac laboratory, X-Ray, ultrasound and CT imaging.
Over the years, we have achieved significant expansion in the number of specialty services offered, and in the number of highly qualified medical personnel utilizing our facilities, making Medical Associates Hospital the provider of a most comprehensive array of high quality medical services. Special note of achievements are our first in the medical practice in the Caribbean. These include the first successful renal transplant and the first successful in vitro fertilization (IVF) pregnancy. Many surgical operations described in well renowned medical literature were pioneered at Medical Associates Hospital.
There are four operating rooms - 3 major and 1 minor, allowing general as well as microscopic surgeries, laparoscopy, arthroscopy and laser ophthalmic surgeries (see list of services)
As one of the major private health institutions in the Caribbean, Medical Associates Hospital has an impressive list of achievements which includes the following:
The first to perform: