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ALMOOSA Hospital September 2013 - Issue No.12

The seven golden rules for a healthy life: Simple lifestyle steps can help prevent cancer and heart disease, say experts

More than 800 quality standards give Al-Moosa the accreditation of CBAHI

In this issue

WE ARE READY FOR EVERYTHING

General Manager

Abdalaziz Abdulah Almoosa

Healthcare Challenges and Trends

General Supervisor

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Malik Abdalaziz Almoosa Editing Director Ahmed Algohary

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Design & production of Tareq Mahmoud Translation Dr. Mohammed Kassab

Photography

Child Academy

Mohamed Abdi

Qualitative initiative aiming to raise awareness, increase knowledge and improve skills of children

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ALMOOSA Hospital September 2013 - Issue No.12

The seven golden rules for a healthy life: Simple lifestyle steps can help prevent cancer and heart disease, say experts

More than 800 quality standards give Al-Moosa the accreditation of CBAHI

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Published by: Al Moosa General Hospital

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Our emergency department is fully staffed with specialists in everything from trauma to neurosurgery, all certified by ATLS and ACLS from the American College of Surgeons.

So, no matter what your emergency, no matter what time, day or night.

We are ready.

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Simple lifestyle steps can help prevent cancer and heart disease, say experts

Email: magazine@almoosahospital.com.sa

Editorial Ernest Hemingway.

Inspired by this quote, Al-Moosa Gen. Hospital adopted the mission of working and serving tirelessly.

In fact, planning and selecting the hospital’s team were conditioned by having qualified people admiring success and winning. We weren’t to distinguish and continue on that track unless with a working team motivated to serve the region and willing to achieve success through offering advanced medical services. That is the way we are and we promise to keep the same way.

“The shortest answer is doing the thing.”

We paid special attention to females through different and varied health reports aiming to increase their health education and awareness believing in the positive impact on the health of the whole family the woman creates. Educative mother is capable of bringing up balanced and creative generations who will absolutely create the glory and leadership of this nation.

Al-Moosa Gen. Hospital went through many difficult challenges since the opening til now. The results were more patience and stability, and confidence in our capabilities. We believe that no knowledge without difficulty, no experience without right and wrong, and no best medical services without science. As a result, we embraced the idea of “Power of Intention” which shows that good intentions and hardworking lead to success. Thus and recently, our work came to be well-recognized and accredited by Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutions (CSBAHI) after more than 800 quality standard tests the hospital went through including review of policies and procedures applied by the hospital as well as the services offered to the patients whether clinical or administrative ones.

Next edition, we will meet you – God willing – with the new expansion of Al-Moosa Gen. Hospital by opening the new Medical Tower which will add 120 beds to the current bed capacity of 100 beds in addition to 50 outpatient clinics with modern and attractive designs to provide more space for our dear clients to feel comfortable. These clinics will include a number of specialized centers such as Dentistry Center, Al-Moosa Ophthalmology Center, Obstetrics and Gynecology Center, Pediatric Center and Dermatology and Beauty Center. The tower will accommodate more than 250 parking spaces, external pharmacy with elegant design to be the first pharmacy with this concept in the kingdom. This expansion will also include a number of specialized centers such as Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation center, Nephrology and Hemodialysis Center, ICU beds for adults and pediatric designed and equipped according to the latest trends in ICU design internationally, in addition to delivery wards and NICU (newborn intensive care unit) equipped with the latest and highest medical devices.

Our dear reader, between your hands and through these pages, we share what we’ve achieved within the last three months promising to continue what we’ve started from social initiatives targeting our region’s dear people. As a matter of fact, our magazine wasn’t to continue without your encouragement, suggestions and advice regarding the region’s public health problems and cases. We assure that keeping on spreading the correct health culture and education for all the family members is our superior goal. “Al-Moosa Mission” is a bridge connecting the hospital’s doctors with the region’s people and visitors.

Furthermore, Al-Moosa Gen. Hospital provides the new medical tower with Dermatology and Beauty Center, female and male wellness center for the first time in the region, very luxurious inpatient wards and conference room (theater) which will accommodate more than 500 persons. The hospital’s administration agreed on naming it “Dr. Fahd Al Muhana Conference Room” after the name of Dr. Fahd Almuhana, the dean of the Faculty of Medicine in King Faisal University 1995, for his fundamental role in serving the region’s people and as a kind of appreciation and gratitude from the hospital for the role he played when establishing the hospital.

In this edition, we deal with the issue of success but in a different way. We celebrate and congratulate the titleholder of the current Saudi Professional League “Al-Fateh Club”. Al-Fateh, the knight of Al-Hasa who transformed this city to an oasis of football, gave us an example of ambition beyond dreams and imaginations. In this edition, we will document AlFateh journey in winning the championships and occupying an advanced position of the sports scene in Saudi Arabia. Also in this edition and in line with our dear readers’ opinion polls, you’ll notice that we are heading women in particular.

Depending on the importance of development, we adopt the policy of contentious training and education. The medical tower will include a medical training center which will play a vital and developmental role for the staff, the health care workers in the region and the society in general. We pray to Allah to finish this project as soon as possible and we expect that first transition to the medical tower will be in December of the current year 2013 and planning, hopefully, to operate gradually at full power at the first quarter of the year 2014.

Malek Abdulaziz Al-Moosa CEO

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Healthcare Challenges Global Challenges There are global challenges that will impact healthcare in the near future. These include: Rising costs Spending on healthcare almost invariably grows faster than GDP; the rate of growth of healthcare spend has exceeded that of GDP since records began. Moreover, spending and economic recession are closely linked.

We can expect to see the rate of growth of healthcare spend in Europe outstrip GDP growth significantly during the current economically difficult times.

Macroeconomic factors like aging populations or insufficient public funding are challenging both receivers and providers of healthcare. Adoption and penetration rates of clinical information systems vary greatly. In fact, the number (and size) of buyers varies from country to country, and is not necessarily dependent on the size of the country but rather on the structure of the healthcare system.

Additionally, purchasing behaviour is shifting towards more coordinated, joint purchasing.

Changing demographics There is increasing demand on the healthcare delivery organisations. And this is happening in every country. Thanks to advances in our understanding of the causes of diseases, and consequent improvements in diagnostic techniques and treatments, people live longer. The average life expectancy in OECD countries has now reached 80 years and continues to lengthen. However, not only are people living longer, but increasingly people are living longer with chronic disease.

Global Healthcare Trends Move from being supply driven towards a demand driven consumer model

Healthcare Challenges and Trends healthcare is one of the most important factors in how individuals perceive their quality of life. In most countries, alongside the economy, it is the major political issue. In some countries, such as the UK with the National Health Service (NHS), the healthcare delivery organisation is a part of their national identity.

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As a society, we are changing rapidly, and this is apparent in the relationship between care providers and the citizen. Patients are increasingly becoming stakeholders in their own care journeys; they demand transparency in access and information about their care and importantly, about the quality of service provided. Universal access is the basis of virtually all socialised healthcare economies.

But citizens are now demanding access on their terms. They want to schedule appointments when and where it suits them, not the provider. They want the latest drugs or clinical trials; and of course, an end to surgical waiting lists. Or they want to be given the option to ‘go private’ without incurring a personal cost.

The internet is changing citizen behaviour. This means the way governments interact with their citizens has to change too.

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Healthcare Challenges Municipalities are providing more services to the citizen using technology. We will see healthcare providers do the same - adopt technological solutions to streamline processes such as setting up virtual appointments with doctors or looking up lab results online.

Healthcare is the last of the major supply driven industries. It will not be so for long. It will be the citizen that demands the transition to an industry that answers their needs, fears and aspirations.

WE KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THAT SHOULDER IS,

Informed patients and the rise of social media Patients are becoming more and more involved in their healthcare, with a higher stake in the journey than before.

Patients are simply better informed than ever before. Information about medical conditions and treatments are now easily available on the Internet. This has to some extent, shifted the focus of the patient-provider relationship towards the

patient. The advent of social media is also driving healthcare interactions in new ways. Patients are exploiting these resources to discuss treatments, procedures and even individual practitioners.

Alongside, healthcare practitioners, agencies and charities too will need to use social media to communicate with their citizens; in times of crisis this will become a critical mechanism.

Patients exercising choice Healthcare systems are under close scrutiny by society. With patients having a bigger say in what they choose and demand for, government policy is impacted and in turn, healthcare providers.

Healthcare needs to become demand-driven to satisfy the needs of citizens and governments.

Patients increasingly want to decide how and when to engage with their healthcare environment. Governments, health authorities and the medical profession will be challenged to provide patients with the information and services that will allow citizens to make informed choices about their healthcare. This will mean publishing data on indicators of quality (such as outcome data, readmission rates, so on) and also introducing ways for patients to book appointments at hospitals at times that suit the patient, not the provider.

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YOU CARRY YOUR WORLD ON IT

Arthroscopy means surgery through a few really small incisions rather large cuts. Smaller incisions means quicker healing time and better success rates in surgeries. And the benefits of this cutting edge technique are now available to you, only at Al Moosa Hospital.

So you can get back to your world and your life, quicker.

Al-Hasa Dhahran St. KSA T: +966 3 5307000 F: +966 3 5304440 E: info@almoosahospital.com.sa W: www. almoosahospital.com.sa

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Child Academy

Child Academy

Qualitative initiative aiming to raise awareness, increase knowledge and improve skills of children

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executive manager of Al-Moosa General Hospital, Malek Al-Moosa, started “Child Academy� program among the activities of Shopping and Entertainment Festival organized by Al-Hasa Chamber of Commerce in Othaim Mall. The festival is carried out and supervised by Al-Moosa General Hospital with presence of large numbers of children participating in the festival. The children were very enthusiastic and eager to figure out the Academy corners considered as their unique and exciting world of knowledge and information.

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Child Academy

A great success has been achieved by the participation of Al-Moosa Gen. Hospital in the 2nd version of the festival as an exclusive medical sponsor. Al-Moosa corner attracted thousands of motivated children to visit the Academy. Furthermore, the hospital’s team was capable of offering valuable services in all the certified sites of the festival in almost all the giant trading centers of Al-Hasa.

The Shopping and Entertainment Festival events included some programs, cultural contests, varied activities and many entertaining games through offering prizes and presents to all the participating visitors in addition to the children coloring studio which contributed effectively to enhance and bring out the children’s talents. In fact, gathering between shopping and entertainment at the same time has helped in presenting great sales and offers in different sectors such as food, furniture, garments, perfumes , household utensils and wares, and electric devices‌etc. The offers and sales reached unprecedented rates up to 80%.

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Ali Al-Hajji explained in previous statements that the various and renewable programs and events included in the festival this year has contributed significantly to achieve the intended goals of the festival.

He also mentioned that enriching domestic tourism in the kingdom requires adopting qualitative initiatives which generate useful and

fruitful scientific and practical ideas.

Al-Hajji stressed that his confidence in the idea of Child Academy program would be beneficial and contributes positively in raising awareness, increasing knowledge and improving skills of the children by forming a positive concept and attitude towards themselves. Noteworthy that the Child Academy program contains six

main and varied corners: knowledge and awareness brochures, doctor, coloring studio, technology and sports in addition to a number of recent medical devices provided

by Al-Moosa General Hospital to examine children and educate them on how to clean their teeth and how important the sense of sight is.

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MERS

«There must be something in the middle,» Memish said during a talk on MERS in Washington that was organized and webcast by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center›s Center for Health Security.

«Is it food? Is it (an) other animal reservoir? That›s something to be determined.»

MERS

The article outlining the finding is published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, a publication of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. It was reported by scientists from the Saudi Ministry of Health, Columbia University and the organization EcoHealth Alliance. are susceptible to the virus, it›s not yet known if they play a role in spreading the virus to people.

coronavirus isolated from bats Scientists from Saudi Arabia and the United States have found DNA matching the MERS coronavirus in a sample taken from a bat in Saudi Arabia.

Lipkin›s lab has been testing samples from camels and other animals from Saudi Arabia. He says his group has a paper looking at the possible role of camels that should be published soon.

To date there have been 96 confirmed cases of MERS and 46 of those infections have ended in death.

The viral DNA was found in a fecal swab taken from a Taphozous perforatus bat - also known as an Egyptian tomb bat, says Dr. Ian Lipkin, head of Columbia University›s Center for Infection and Immunity. Lipkin›s lab, famous for finding new viruses, played a lead role in this work.

All cases to date have originated from four Middle Eastern countries -- Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. MERS infections have also been diagnosed in Britain, France, Italy, Tunisia and Germany. But in these instances the virus was brought into the country by someone who had travelled in the Middle East before getting sick or who travelled to Europe by air ambulance seeking care.

The bat was among many found roosting in ruins near where the first known Saudi MERS case lived, at Bisha. The man, who died in June 2012, was the case which brought the existence of the new virus to light - though it was later found that earlier cases had occurred in Jordan in April of that year.

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scientists reported the finding in a paper published online Wednesday.

This the first time a DNA match for the human virus has been found in samples taken from an animal.

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Lead author Dr. Ziad Memish, the Saudi deputy minister of health, says bats have always been suspected to be the original source of the virus, but there are probably other players of the chain of transmission that haven›t yet been discovered.

Lipkin says this type of bat is an insect eater. They are frequently found close to fruit trees because the fruit draws insects.

Other scientists recently reported finding antibodies to MERS or a closely related coronavirus in camels in Oman and in the Canary Islands, off North Africa. While that is a clue that the animals

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10 Emerging Healthcare Technologies New technologies are constantly in development to help people stay healthy, better diagnose disease, treat illness, and provide a better quality of life. Here are some examples:

Intelligent Pills Deliver Medication to Specific Locations: Philips Research has developed an intelligent pill that can be programmed to deliver targeted doses of medication to patients with digestive disorders such as Crohn’s disease, colitis, and colon cancer

Brain Implants Prevent Seizures: The RNS System, a responsive neurostimulator from NeuroPace, detects abnormal electrical activity in the brain that signals the onset of a seizure, and delivers a specific pattern of mild electrical stimulation to block the seizure.

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Sensor Technology Tracks Medication Adherence: Proteus Biomedical is working on technology that incorporates a tiny sensor into pills for targeting medication adherence for organ transplants, cardiovascular disease, infectious diseases, diabetes, and psychiatric disorders

Contact Lens Detects Glaucoma: Sensimed’s scientists have created a smart contact lens with an embedded microchip that monitors intraocular pressure. If a patient wears the contact lens for a day, glaucoma can be detected sooner and more reliably, and the efficacy of the treatment can be monitored over time, potentially averting blindness.

Artificial Pancreas for Diabetics: Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston University have successfully completed a trial with 11 type1 diabetic patients using a new “artificial pancreas”4 that consists of insulin pumps, glucose sensors, and regulatory software.

Printing New Skin: Wake Forest University’s scientists have discovered how to apply ink-jet printer technology to ‘print’ proteins directly onto a burn victim’s body for faster and more thorough healing

Video Games Hone Medical Student DecisionMaking Skills: The University of Texas, Corpus Christi, and BreakAway Ltd., have developed a ‘serious’ video game that lets professionals and students practice on 3D video patients using the same interactive techniques and decision-making processes they would use with real patients.

Artificial Retina: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Artificial Retina Project — a collaboration of five DOE national laboratories, four universities, and private industry — is developing a retinal prosthesis. To date, progress has been made by enabling direct communication between the implant and the neural cells that carry visual information to the brain

Robot Care Givers: MIT’s “Huggable” teddy bear robot can serve as a medical communicator for children.

Packed with electronic sensors and sensitive skin technologies, the robot can distinguish between cuddling for comfort or agitation by sensing the strength of the squeeze.

Lab-on-a-Chip: Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have created a lab-on-a-chip for HIV testing that does not require expensive resources and can deliver results in seconds. The portable and less expensive lab-on-achip is a holographic, lens-free imaging mechanism that counts specific molecules and blood cells to determine if the blood is HIV positive.

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The seven golden rules

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smoking status was not considered, people who met five or six of the remaining six factors had a 25 per cent lower cancer risk than those who met none.

The list was originally compiled by the American Heart Association to ward off heart disease. However, new research shows they can also help prevent cancer.

Lead author Laura Rasmussen-Torvik, an assistant professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, said: , We were gratified to know adherence to the Lifes Simple 7 goals was also associated with reduced

Seven simple steps can slash the risk of dying from cancer or heart disease by up to 50 per cent, according to a landmark study.

Adhering to at least six of the ‹Life›s Simple 7› list of lifestyle choices from the American Heart Association reduced the risk of an early death, say researchers.

The seven golden rules are being physically active, keeping a healthy weight, eating a healthy diet, maintaining healthy cholesterol levels, keeping blood pressure down, regulating blood sugar levels and not smoking.

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The seven golden rules for a healthy life: Simple lifestyle steps can help prevent cancer and heart disease, say experts

incidence of cancer. ‹This can help health professionals provide a clear, consistent message about the most important things people can do to protect their health and lower their overall risk for chronic diseases.› Adhering to six or seven of the factors reduced the risk of cancer by 51 per cent, compared with people who met none of the factors. Meeting four factors led to a 33 per cent risk reduction and one or two, a 21 per cent reduction.

Life›s Simple 7 is part of the association›s My Life Check campaign that advises Americans to adhere to seven factors for a healthy heart

• Rules include being a healthy weight, physically active and eating healthily • Also important to keep blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar down • Adhering to at least six ‹rules› reduced the risk of cancer by 51 per cent • Researchers say it›s never too late to adopt a healthy lifestyle BEING PHYSICALLY ACTIVE Experts are increasingly concerned about the amount of time we spend sitting. Last month Kansas State University researchers warned that office workers could be risking their health simply by sitting at their desk.

They found that people who spend more than four hours a day sitting down are at greater risk of chronic illnesses such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

Those sitting for at least six hours were significantly more likely to have diabetes.

Research published last month from Leicester University recommended that people at high risk of developing diabetes may be able to

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escape the condition by cutting the time they spending sitting down by 90 minutes every day.

They found important risk factors for Type 2 diabetes, such as blood glucose and cholesterol levels, improved far more in people told to sit less, compared with those doing required amounts of exercise.

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The seven golden rules QUITTING SMOKING ‹Quitting smoking is very important,› said Dr Rasmussen-Torvik. Its never too late to change, and if you make changes like quitting smoking and improving your diet, you can reduce your risk for both cardiovascular disease and cancer.› They come after German researchers announced last month that quitting smoking in middle age or beyond still has significant health benefits.

Even lifelong smokers who gave up smoking later on in life still experienced a massive 40 per cent reduction in the risk of heart attack and stroke within just five years.

The study followed nearly 9,000 German people aged between 50 and 74 years for ten years.

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CONTROLLING BLOOD SUGAR High blood sugar increases the risk of diabetes -and, in turn, complications of the disease such as blindness, kidney disease and nerve damage.

The risk of heart disease is five times higher in middle aged men with diabetes and eight times higher in women with diabetes.

Diabetes UK estimates that the life expectancy of

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Professor Hermann Brenner and his colleagues from the German Cancer Research Centre were able to show that smokers were at double the risk of developing heart disease compared to nonsmokers, but that former smokers were at almost the same low rate as people of the same age who have never smoked.

Meanwhile, a Canadian study published earlier this year demonstrated that people who give up smoking by the age of 44 can live almost as long as those who have never smoked. ‹Quitting smoking before age 40, and preferably well before 40, gives back almost all of the decade of lost life from continued smoking,› study leader Professor Prabhat Jha. The researchers found that people who quit smoking between the ages of 35 and 44 gained about nine years and those who quit between ages 4554- and 5564- gained six and four years of life, respectively.

someone with type 2 diabetes is likely to be reduced - as a result of the condition - by up to 10 years.

Results of a 30 year study by the University of Pittsburgh, published in 2012, noted that people with type 1 diabetes born after 1965 had a life expectancy of 69 years.

KEEPING A HEALTHY WEIGHT Having a BMI above the ‹ideal› range of 22.5 to 25 increases the risk of an early death., according to a recent study.

Above BMI of 25, each additional five units on the BMI scale increased overall mortality by around a third.

The investigation, called the Prospective Studies

Collaboration, pooled information on 894,576 adults mostly from western Europe and North America with an average age of 46 and an average BMI of 25.

As well as looking at overall death rates, the researchers linked BMI scores with common causes of death through ill health.

Each additional five BMI units corresponded with a 40 per cent increase in deaths from heart and artery disease and strokes

MAINTAINING HEALTHY BLOOD PRESSURE LEVELS High blood pressure – or hypertension – means that your blood pressure is constantly higher than the recommended level.

and a smoking ban, life expectancy is not increasing as rapidly in Briton compared to other nations.

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Over time, if it is not treated, the heart may become enlarged, making it pump less effectively, which could lead to heart failure.

A recent study in The Lancet found that smoking was the top reason for an early death in the UK, accounting for 12 per cent, followed by high blood pressure, obesity, lack of exercise, alcohol and poor diet.

The alarming report shows that despite huge advances in cancer screening, immunisations

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The seven golden rules EATING A HEALTHY DIET Eating a Mediterranean-style diet can cut heart attacks, strokes and death rates in people at high risk of heart disease by as much as a third, research shows.

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Changing the balance of foods in a diet can lessen the risk even before heart-related illness strikes, according to a major Spanish clinical trial.

Meanwhile, Swedish researchers have calculated the regime could add an extra three years to your life.

They say a Mediterranean-style diet is a rich source

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of chemicals called anti-oxidants that fight cancer, heart disease and can slow the ageing process.

Scientists who studied the eating habits of 1,200 over-70s found that those following a Mediterraneanstyle diet tended to live for two or three years longer.

The Mediterranean diet is widely recommended as a healthy eating plan by doctors and nutritionists as it is high in fruits, vegetables, fish and wholegrain cereals and low in meat and dairy, which contain large amounts of saturated fats.

Traditionally olive oil rather than butter is used in cooking, as well as for dressing salads and moistening bread.

This is high in monounsaturated fat, which is thought to protect against heart disease.

MAINTAINING HEALTHY CHOLESTEROL LEVELS Too much cholesterol in the blood causes the arteries to harden and narrow Too much cholesterol in the blood causes the arteries to harden and narrow. This slows down and may eventually block blood flow to the heart, causing a heart attack.

Participants in the ‚Lifes Simple 7› list study included 13,253 white and African-

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American men and women in the ongoing Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, launched in 1987 in four U.S. communities.

They were interviewed and examined at the start of the study to determine which health factors they met or followed.

About 20 years later, the researchers reviewed cancer registries and hospital records and determined that 2,880 of the participants ended up with cancer, primarily of the lung, colon or rectum, prostate and breast.

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More than 800 quality standards give Al-Moosa the accreditation of CBAHI Gen. Hospital passed the accreditation of CBAHI (Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutions) as the hospital went through more than 880 ISQua-approved quality standards including review of policies and procedures applied by the hospital as well as the services offered to the patients including the health and administrative ones.

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paid Al-Moosa Gen. Hospital a number of field visits conducting the hospital on- site assessment visits on the seven domains that standards are covering including the medical and administrative departments to make sure of the quality of services offered. The member of the committee praised the medical and administrative performance of the hospital. The evaluation committee (seven surveyors) included all of Dr. Saleh Al Harby, Mr. Joseph Omils, Dr. Nahla Abdul Qader, Mr. Khaled Abdul Qader, Dr. Abdul Aziz Gari, Dr. Hamid Abdullah and Mr. Saleh Rajab.

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t’s noteworthy that Al-Moosa Gen. Hospital started preparation for six months to get this certificate which is considered one of the most important means of measuring and improving the quality of services. Al-Moosa Gen. Hospital is the first private hospital in Al-Hasa province to pass the survey process and the second in the eastern province and the scoring result which is 91% considered to be one of the top highest scores in the kingdom out of more than 150 hospital who already been accredited by CBAHI and succeed in implementing the National

Hospital Standards in quality.

This accreditation is regarded as the highest in the kingdom and the GCC , CBAHI is the official organization responsible for accrediting quality certificates for governmental and private healthcare facilities operating in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Central Board for Accreditation of Health care Institutions is a non-profit organization, emerging from the Council of Health Services, and is responsible for setting and implementing the quality and patient safety standards in Saudi Arabia.

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