CannonDesign, Optimah sign accord on healthcare services

CannonDesign & Optimah (a business unit of Tibbiyah Holding – Al Faisaliah Group’s Healthcare Sector) – announced Monday the commencement of a teaming agreement to deliver innovative solutions addressing the need for quality healthcare in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

June 09, 2014
CannonDesign, Optimah sign accord on healthcare services
CannonDesign, Optimah sign accord on healthcare services





CannonDesign & Optimah (a business unit of Tibbiyah Holding  – Al Faisaliah Group’s Healthcare  Sector) –  announced Monday the commencement of a teaming agreement to deliver innovative solutions addressing the need for quality healthcare in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including strategic planning, master planning, architectural and engineering design, simulation modeling, and facilities optimization.



CannonDesign is a leading international design firm consistently ranked as one of the top five healthcare design firms in the world, whose clients include the majority of leading hospitals in North America. The firm designed the expansion of the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center currently under construction in Riyadh.



The announcement comes two years after the Al Faisaliah Group signed a strategic partnership with leading Harvard teaching hospitals represented by Partners Healthcare International, shaping AFG’s initiative to create a subsidiary company dedicated to providing integrated healthcare services to premier healthcare providers in the Kingdom and the Middle East.



Stephen Johnson, President of CannonDesign International and Mohammed K.A. Al Faisal, President of Al Faisaliah Group Holding, marked the signing of the agreement in a ceremony attended by the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Saudi Arabia Dr. Salah Al Mazroa,  along with Dr. Basheer Al-Ghuraydh, Secretary General and Executive Director of the US-Saudi Arabia Business Council.



Mohammed K.A. Al Faisal, President  and CEO of Al Faisaliah Group Holding, said: “We expect that the co-operation of CannonDesign and Optimah will contribute to new levels of healthcare services for the people of Saudi Arabia."



Johnson said: "Through our partnership with Optimah, CannonDesign will be able to best address the unique goals and challenges of our healthcare clients in the Kingdom, and provide the transformative solutions necessary to optimize clinical operations, facility design, and innovation in patient care. — SG


June 09, 2014
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