Kellog Eye wins poster prize 2015
Congratulations to the Kellog Eye Center from Michigan USA for winning this years poster competition during the 9th annual WAEH meeting!
New member of the WAEH
he board of the WAEH is delighted to give a warm welcome to the following eye hospital as full member of the WAEH:
The Metta Eye Hospital (Mettapracharak (Wat Rai Khing) Hospital) from Bangkok – Thailand.
All WAEH members are “centres of excellence” in the area of ophthalmology...
WAEH new president: Ms Charity Wai
Ms Charity Wai is Chief Operating Officer of the Singapore National Eye Centre. She has a Communications degree from Nanyang University, 1978 and a Postgraduate Certificate, International Health Management from University of Birmingham, 1998.
Ms Charity Wai is the new President of the World Association...
New member of the WAEH
The board of the WAEH wants to wish the following eye hospital a warm welcome:
The Tays Eye Clinic from Tampere in Finland.
The World Association of Eye Hospitals is a world wide network of eye hospitals and is happy to welcome The Tays Eye Clinic (Tampere, Finland) as an associate member.
All...
Singapore National Eye Centre wins the first Winsemius Award
Rotterdam, The Netherlands – April 1, 2015 – The Singapore National Eye Centre, part of the SingHealth Group, has won the first Winsemius Award in the category ‘Collaborative Innovation’. The SNEC won this award for the close cooperation with The Rotterdam Eye Hospital (the Netherlands) from...
New members of the WAEH
November 2014
The board of the WAEH wants to wish the following eye hospitals a warm welcome:
Kellogg Eye Center (Ann Arbor, USA)Fondation Asile des Aveugles (Lausanne, Switzerland)Asian Eye Institute (Makati City, Philippines)Clinica Oftalmologica Pasteur (Chili)
The World Association of...
Establishment of the World Association of Eye Hospitals!
On Sunday June the 3rd, the World Association of Eye Hospitals has been established by the:
Moorfields Eye Hospital ( London , UK ) the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) Rotterdam Eye Hospital (The Netherlands).
The major of Rotterdam,...
PRESS RELEASE
Eye hospitals build worldwide network
At the end of March eye hospitals from around the world have made
agreements in South-East Asia regarding the exchange of high-level
medical and organizational knowledge. By cooperating internationally,
the eye hospitals hope to guarantee the best available...
Annual WAEH meeting
Details
Created: 08 July 2014
Singapore, Maleisia, Thailand / March 17 – March 21
Topics of this meeting:
strategy of the WAEH in the upcoming yearsaction points
Would...
Introduction phaco-emulsification in Cape Verde
In
May and June 2009 a small group of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital, one of
the members of the WAEH, has visited Cape Verde to introduce the modern
cataract operation ‘phaco-emulsification’ in Cape Verde.
The group existed out of a nurse for training the nurses in Cape
Verde to take...
Four new WAEH Members
During the WAEH-2010-meeting in Melbourne and Jakarta four hospitals have been approved as members of the WAEH:
The Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital – Dublin, Ireland: full membershipHimalayan Eye Center – Nepal: associate memberMechi Eye Center – Nepal: associate memberJakarta...
WAEH supports AAEECE-initiative
The
WAEH supports the Worldwide Patient Safety Initiative to address LASA
Eye and Ear related Medication Errors of the American Association of Eye
and Ear Centers of Excellence (AAEECE). The LASA (Look – alike – Sound – alike) Issue: some examples**EXAMPLES OF LOOK-ALIKE OPHTHALMIC...
UZ Leuven is the first Belgian hospital to meet the JCI quality standard for safe, high-quality care
UZ Leuven has become the first hospital in Belgium to receive the
internationally recognised JCI accreditation. Joint Commission
International (JCI) is an organisation which sets the international JCI
standards for care quality and patient safety. If inspection by JCI
shows that the care institution’s...
New member!
4 January 2011 The board of the WAEH welcomes the Tianjin Medical University Eye Centre in China as a new member.
The World Association of Eye Hospitals is a world wide network of eye
hospitals. All member-hospitals are “centres of excellence” in the area
of ophthalmology and focus...
New member Vietnam!
29 april 2011 The board of the WAEH welcomes the Cao Thang International Eye Hospital in Vietnam as a new associate member.
The CT International Eye Hospital is one of the few dedicated,
comprehensive eye institutes in Vietnam. It’s internationally recognized
staff diagnoses and treats the...
Programme WAEH 2011 meeting online
In 2011 the WAEH meeting will take place in London and Leuven from Saturday 11 June till Thursday 16 June.
Want to participate? Please e-mail to Maaike van Zuilen: maaike@philogirl.nl
Programme WAEH 2011
New member from Mexico
27 June 2011
The board of the WAEH welcomes the Institute of Ophthalmic Science – Angeles Lomas Hospital Mexico as a new associate member.
The World Association of Eye Hospitals is a world wide network of eye
hospitals and is happy to welcome the Institute of Ophthalmic Science –
...
New member from Korea
30 June 2011
The board of the WAEH welcomes the Kim’s Eye Hospital – Seoul from Korea as a new associate member.
The World Association of Eye Hospitals is a world wide network of eye
hospitals and is happy to welcome Kim’s Eye Hospital – Seoul from Korea
as one of...
Singapore National Eye Center (SNEC) joins global crusade to conquer blindness
The World Health Organization has estimated that the number of blind
people in the world could double in the next 25 years. It has dedicated
the ‘World Sight Day’ as a day to raise awareness on blindness,
preventing visual impairment and restoring sight.
In Singapore, to combat the leading...
World Sight Day 2012
During World Sight Day 2012 several WAEH-members have organized all kinds of activities to give attention to blindness and vision impairment. World Sight Day 2014 is on 9 October 2014.
‘Eyehospital’ Louvain provides Best Ophthalmic healthcare to patients in Belgium
“Which hospitals provide the best medical healthcare to patients with a very serious and complex illness in a specific field of healthcare?” This question has been asked to a group of Belgium general practitioners and specialists. The EAEH would like to congratulate the EAEH-member...
Launch of children’s-APP at The Eye Hospital in Thailand
Rotterdam, June 15, 2012 – On Wednesday June 6, the
English version of Rotterdam Eye Hospital’s special app for children was
launched in Bangkok (Thailand). The launch of the ‘To the Eye Hospital’
app took place during the annual meeting of the World Association of
Eye Hospitals, a global association...
St John Eye Hospital becomes first Palestinian hospital to achieve JCI Accreditation
The WAEH is pleased to announce that it’s member St John Eye Hospital
has been awarded the Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation
for quality and patient safety. The Joint Commission is a US-based
organisation that has established patient safety and quality service
standards...
WAEH annual meeting 2014
The next annual meeting of the WAEH will be organized in close
cooperation with the Aravind Eye Care System. We welcome you to India!
For more information: flyer.
Today we are very happy to confirm the dates and location for this next meeting– so please save them in your agenda:
Location:...
WAEH annual meeting 2013
For the first time, the annual meeting of the WAEH will take place in
a new continent, in a country full of history and development. We
welcome you to Mexico City, Mexico.
Interested in the program of the 2013-meeting? Program 2013
Today we are very happy to confirm the dates and location...
New member
The board of the WAEH welcomes the St. John from Jerusalem Eye Hospital as a new full member.
The World Association of Eye Hospitals is a world wide network of eye
hospitals and is happy to welcome the St. John from Jerusalem Eye
Hospital as one of it’s members. All member-hospitals are “centres...
Annual WAEH meeting 2009
The annual WAEH-meeting has taken place in Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallin and Tartu.Overall theme WAEH 2009: ‘eye care network development’Eye care network development:
Cooperation in primary health careFranchise Network Development country wide
Innovations:
The boundary of our eye product...
ROTTERDAM EYE HOSPITAL wins Dutch Safe Health Care Award
2 June 2009 – The initiative Team Resource Management of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital has won the Dutch IGZ ZorgVeiligPrijs (Safe Health Care Award). That was announced by Inspector General Gerrit van der Wal on June 11th at the yearly patient safety congress of the IGZ (Dutch Health Care Inspectorate)....