Hospital Angeles in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico is part of Grupo Angeles, a business group that owns the largest private hospital chain in Mexico. The hospital is a very popular destination for US patients wanting lap band surgery (adjustable laparoscopic gastric banding). This is a popular type of bariatric (obesity/weight loss) surgery. An investment of more than 84 Million US dollars went into setting up this hospital.

There are no border charges to enter Ciudad Juarez from the USA. Travel by car, taxi, bus, and even simply walking across on foot is quite common across this international border. It took us less than 15 to minutes drive form the El Paso airport baggage claim area to the hospital in Juarez.

Hospital Angeles, Juarez, is a world class medical care facility designed especially to provide state-of-the-art high quality medical care to international patients. The hospital boasts of some of the best doctors in their field, supported by an able staff and latest medical technology equipment. Top bariatric surgeons (lap band, gastric sleeve, gastric bypass ) surgeons practice at this facility.

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We were told that more than 70% of the current patients here for lap band are from United States. This was confirmed when we observed many Americans in the hosptial lobby. With the cost of high quality medical care here at a fraction of the USA cost, it is not surprising. Lap band surgery cost in Mexico is about US $8000 vs. the USA cost for the same surgery around US $25,000.

The hospital is a fully integrated hospital, meaning it offers complete medical services in-house (outpatient clinic, emergency room, pharmacy, intensive care unit, intermediate ICU, neonatal ICU, intermediate neonatal ICU, X-ray, tomography, MRI, nuclear medicine, fluoroscopy (it’s a X-Ray type machine used for lap band adjustments), angiography, fully equipped laboratory, blood bank, helicopter landing zone, doctor offices and more).

The hospital is self-contained with its own chapel, cafeteria, pharmacy, gift shop, ATM, and more. Unless, you want to take a look around, there will be no need for you to step outside the hospital premises.

For people wanting a taste of good old American fast foods, fast foods chains like Haagen-Dazs, Wendy, Subway, and Carl’s are walking distance from the hospital. But these might not be of interest to bariatric surgery patients.

About three miles from the hospital is a Hampton Inn Hotel, part of the Hilton Family, and a 4-star Mexican Hotel: City Express. These are used rarely by hospital patients as the patient and an accompanying guest are accommodated in the hospital.

Medical Tourism Corporation team hopes this report helps you in your journey to find the right medical destination.

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Hospital Angeles is Mexico’s largest hospital group with twenty hospitals. It is part of Grupo Angeles conglomerate that owns businesses in health, industry, commerce, entertainment, education and tourism. Achieving annual growth rates of close to 50% over the last five years, Hospital Angeles has grown into the leading chain of private hospitals not only in Mexico, but in all of Latin America.

All the Hospital Angeles facilies in Mexico boast cutting edge technology and offer a range of specialties expected in a major medical center. Angeles Hospital in Pedregal, Mexico is also into adult stem cells research. bariatric surgery (lap band, gastric band, gastric bypass & gastric sleeve are the most popular among international patients).

Two of the finest hospital’s that are part of Grupo Angeles are located in US Mexico Border cities. This is to cater to the international patients keen on high quality affordable medical services. Physicians working at these hospitals are board certified & experts in their specialties. Many in the staff are bilingual and the hospitals have been designed keeping the high quality of medical care that a US patient would expect. The hospitals have signs both in Spanish & English. The price of medical care in these hospitals is sixty to seventy percent less than for the same procedure in the United States.

The first hospital catering to international patients is Hospital Angeles, Tijuana. Located just about 25 miles from San Diego, CA this hospital was opened in 2005. It is the only fully integrated hospital in Tijuana.

Attracted to high quality & affordable price, about fifty percent of the patients here are from United States. The hospital is located in an upscale area with all common patient amenities inside the hospital compound. The hospital has a beautiful & warm decor with a feeling of a high end hotel rather than a hospital.

The second, catering to international patients is Hospital Angeles in Ciudad Juarez, the twin city to El Paso, TX. This hospital is just about 15 minutes drive from the El Paso Airport. The new hospital that was inaugurated in 2007 occupies 430,000 square feet. This place is about 4 miles from where the US Embassy plans to relocate and is also a beautiful upscale area.

Hospital Angeles, Juarez also, has special luxury suites besides the state of the art medical equipment. The facility is self contained with a cafeteria, pharmacy, ATM, Chapel & more. More than 70 percent of the patients here are from the United States.

Both the Hospitals Angeles in Tijuana & Ciudad Juarez are located strategically near the US border, and are projected to lead Medical Tourism in Mexico. Compared to other hospitals in the US Mexico border area, these hospitals are about to be JCI accredited, and are self contained (blood bank, pharmacy, X-ray, doctor offices, laboratories etc at the same place). That means they have all the patient & accompanying guest amenities inside the hospital compound. This saves the need to make an out of hospital area trip.

Medical Tourism Corporation facilitates medical trips to Hospital Angeles, in Mexico and other world class hospitals. Contact for more information on Hospital Angeles, Mexico.