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HOSPITALS
Al Ain sits within the emirate of Abu Dhabi and is served by a mix of government and private hospitals. The main government hospitals are Tawam Hospital and Al Ain Hospital, both operated by Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA), which is part of PureHealth. As part of the Abu Dhabi emirate, every hospital and clinic in Al Ain is regulated and licensed by the Department of Health Abu Dhabi (DOH).
Alongside the public hospitals, Al Ain has a growing private and specialist sector. This includes NMC Specialty Hospital and the Royal Health Group network, which runs facilities such as the Royal Health Heart Center and the Czech Rehabilitation Hospital. Government hospitals like Tawam and Al Ain Hospital handle tertiary and complex care, including oncology, trauma, and major surgery, while private and specialist centres focus on areas such as cardiology, rehabilitation, and day surgery.
This guide covers the hospitals in Al Ain that Allocation Assist works with. Each profile below outlines the hospital’s focus areas, accreditations where relevant, and the type of care it provides, both for patients and for the doctors and healthcare staff who join these teams.
Tawam Hospital is a premier tertiary care government facility in Al Ain, established in 1979 to meet the complex and critical care needs of residents in Al Ain City and the broader Abu Dhabi emirate. The hospital combines advanced facilities with high-quality service standards, ensuring exceptional care for all patients.
As a JCI-accredited institution, Tawam Hospital is a 509-bed facility. It is a physician-led medical center staffed by Western-trained, North American/European board-certified, and Arab board physicians, all licensed by the Department of Health, Abu Dhabi. This ensures that patients have direct access to high-quality healthcare services in the region.
Tawam is a major oncology, neonatology, and trauma referral centre for the region, and it is a teaching hospital affiliated with the United Arab Emirates University College of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Tawam Hospital offers a wide range of services, including Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Adult & Paediatric Oncology. In addition, the hospital provides specialized services such as Palliative Care, IVF, Paediatric ICU, Paediatrics Genetics & Metabolic, Paediatrics Allergy & Immunology, and an Obesity Centre for both adults and children. The hospital also offers Physical Therapy, Pain Management, Nuclear Medicine, Laboratory, and Radiology services.
Al Ain Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in Al Ain City and is operated by Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA), part of PureHealth. It opened in 1978 and was originally known as Al Jimi Hospital, after the Al Jimi district where it sits.
It is a tertiary referral hospital with several hundred licensed beds, providing medicine, obstetrics, paediatrics, surgical, and critical care, along with a trauma program. Al Ain Hospital achieved Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation in 2010 and works as an academic medical centre alongside the United Arab Emirates University College of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Al Ain Rehabilitation Hospital offers outpatient rehabilitation services for both adults and paediatrics.
These services include physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, as well as prosthetics and orthotics.
Care is delivered by multidisciplinary teams and supports patients recovering from injury, surgery, stroke, and long-term conditions, with the goal of restoring function and independence.
Royal Health Heart Center is part of the Royal Health Group network and is based in the Al Jimi area of Al Ain. It is a specialised cardiovascular centre focused on prevention, early diagnosis, and the advanced management of heart and related conditions.
Specialties include cardiovascular care, cardiac rehabilitation, internal medicine, general medicine, pulmonary services, pediatrics, radiology, laboratory, and pharmacy services.
Czech Rehabilitation Hospital is part of the Royal Health Group and is located in the Al Jimi area of Al Ain. It is a multispecialty rehabilitation hospital that provides inpatient and outpatient care for adults with functional impairments arising from acute, sub-acute, or chronic conditions.
Multidisciplinary teams deliver hospital-based inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient programs, transitional hospital-to-home care, and community-based rehabilitation aimed at restoring independence and quality of life.
NMC Specialty Hospital – Al Ain
NMC Specialty hospital in Al Ain is a 100-bedded multispeciality hospital that opened in 2007.
It serves the Al Ain Region and also towns from neighbouring Oman. In addition to the major specialties such as medicine, surgery, paediatrics, orthopaedics and obstetrics, the hospital also offers highly specialised services such as coronary artery bypass grafting, tempero mandibular joint arthroscopy and bariatric surgery.
The hospital supports in-house diagnostic and imaging modalities and features five advanced operating rooms. The hospital operates a well equipped laboratory offering extensive investigative facilities supported by a centralised computerised system.
Al Ain hospital has tied up with Biomnis, France for rare investigations and tests not available locally. The Radiology department offers advanced equipment, including a patient friendly open MRI (1.0 tesla), 64-Slice Spiral CT Scanner, 4-D Ultrasound with Color Doppler, Bone Densitometry, Mammogram, and Digital X-Ray systems backed by a fully integrated PACS system
What are the main government hospitals in Al Ain?
The main government hospitals are Tawam Hospital and Al Ain Hospital. Both are operated by Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA), which is part of PureHealth.
Does Al Ain have private hospitals?
Yes. Alongside the SEHA government hospitals, Al Ain has private and specialist providers, including NMC Specialty Hospital and the Royal Health Group facilities such as the Royal Health Heart Center and the Czech Rehabilitation Hospital.
Who regulates hospitals and medical licensing in Al Ain?
As part of the Abu Dhabi emirate, hospitals in Al Ain are regulated and licensed by the Department of Health Abu Dhabi (DOH).
