Thinking Inside of Brazil’s Health In a Box
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Dr. Kikawa won awards from the Schwab Foundation and the World Economic Forum for Social Entrepreneurship, and multiple awards from U.S and other International organizations.
He set his sights on CIES Global to introduce the world´s first self-contained, highly adaptable and customizable Health Container to interested sites throughout the US, LATAM, Asia and Africa. Although manufactured and delivered initially direct from São Paulo Brazil, new manufacturing has been initiated in Miami and the first Mobile Health Unit was delivered to Atlanta Georgia in October 2016 and over 400 people have been treated.
University Hybrid Hospital Screening and Treatment Center São Paulo
CIES Brazil’s success is evident in the tremendous social impact measured such as reducing patient wait time for preventive procedures from 2 years to less than 30 days.
The population impact of the program is significant as health services are taken to areas of low access and utilization and long wait list for schedule of exams and screening procedures to demonstrable definitive diagnosis and treatment in only 10 days on average, 30% reduction in cost to the Federal Government (when compared with traditional government medical services) and satisfaction indicators of users exceeding 92%.
The culmination of the success of CIES Brazil was evident by the transformation of the CIES model into Public Policy legislation by the Government of the City of São Paulo.
University Hybrid Hospital Screening and Treatment Center São Paulo
CIES Brazil succeeded in a hostile political and legal environment at a time when there existed and continues to exist in Brazil a public “crisis of confidence” among Brazilians toward their federal government’s ability to address their most pressing social issues of economic security, health and wellness.
This was accomplished largely because CIES Brazil leadership introduced a private sector, profitable, efficient and community based scalable alternative to providing health care for the most medically fragile and disparate segments of that community.
CIES Global leadership recognizes that these social elements are present in most major countries including well-developed countries such as the U.S.
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