MIDDLE EAST: “Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Unveils Plans for UAE’s First Hospital-Based Vertiport, in Collaboration With Archer”

Cleve­land Clin­ic Abu Dhabi (CCAD), in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Archer Avi­a­tion, announced this week plans to estab­lish the first hos­pi­tal-based ver­ti­port in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates (UAE), pro­vid­ing direct eVTOL air­craft access to one of the region’s most promi­nent hos­pi­tal facil­i­ties, reports a press release.

The release explains, “The aim is to enable pas­sen­gers to trav­el from CCAD to near­by loca­tions in just min­utes, dra­mat­i­cal­ly reduc­ing trav­el times com­pared to tra­di­tion­al ground trans­porta­tion. The two com­pa­nies are explor­ing both non-emer­gency pas­sen­ger use cas­es and time-crit­i­cal organ trans­port.” 

It con­tin­ues, “These oper­a­tions would utilise Mid­night, Archer’s eVTOL designed to car­ry up to four pas­sen­gers, while pro­duc­ing less noise and emis­sions than a tra­di­tion­al heli­copter, and would use the planned pas­sen­ger car­ry­ing cab­in con­fig­u­ra­tion for both pur­pos­es.”

The lead­er­ship team at CCAD with Archer CEO, Adam Gold­stein, stand­ing in the mid­dle)

Bryan Bern­hard, Chief Growth & Infra­struc­ture Offi­cer at Archer, com­ment­ed, “This part­ner­ship show­cas­es the breadth of Archer’s net­work vision — con­nect­ing not just places, but pil­lars of life in Abu Dhabi.” 

He con­tin­ued, “Fol­low­ing our first hybrid ver­ti­port approval at the Abu Dhabi Cruise Ter­mi­nal ear­li­er this year, this next loca­tion demon­strates how Archer and the GCAA are work­ing togeth­er to unlock a city-wide ecosys­tem for advanced air mobil­i­ty.”

The col­lab­o­ra­tion is anoth­er step towards Archer’s planned launch of its com­mer­cial oper­a­tions in Abu Dhabi. The com­pa­ny plans to sup­port Cleve­land Clin­ic Abu Dhabi in upgrad­ing its exist­ing heli­pad to enable both tra­di­tion­al heli­copter and eVTOL air­craft oper­a­tions.

Dr. Georges-Pas­cal Haber, CEO of Cleve­land Clin­ic Abu Dhabi, remarked, “This new mode of emis­sion-free trans­port aligns with our com­mit­ment to sus­tain­abil­i­ty; offers addi­tion­al options to many patients trav­el­ling to the hos­pi­tal for care; and pro­vides our thriv­ing organ trans­plant pro­gram with fast logis­tics.”

CCAD is recog­nised for its world-class care and is a key region­al des­ti­na­tion for med­ical tourism. The planned ver­ti­port offers both patients and vis­i­tors an enhanced access to the hos­pi­tal.

Archer aims to part­ner fur­ther with lead­ing insti­tu­tions across Abu Dhabi by con­vert­ing exist­ing heli­pads into cer­ti­fied ver­ti­ports. The company’s launch net­work in the UAE con­tin­ues to lever­age the GCAA’s reg­u­la­to­ry frame­work for hybrid ver­ti­ports, which enables the simul­ta­ne­ous oper­a­tion of con­ven­tion­al heli­copters and eVTOL air­craft on the same infra­struc­ture.

Back­ground

Cleve­land Clin­ic Abu Dhabi is part of the M42 group and is a mul­ti-spe­cial­ty hos­pi­tal locat­ed on Al Maryah Island. It is an exten­sion of the U.S Cleve­land Clin­ic and is designed to address the com­plex and crit­i­cal care needs of the UAE and the broad­er region. 

The hos­pi­tal is organ­ised into spe­cialised Insti­tutes includ­ing Heart, Vas­cu­lar & Tho­racic; Neu­ro­log­i­cal; Can­cer; Diges­tive Dis­ease; Med­ical Sub­spe­cial­ties; Inte­grat­ed Sur­gi­cal Sub­spe­cial­ties; Inte­grat­ed Hos­pi­tal Care; and Diag­nos­tic.

Cel­e­brat­ing its 10th anniver­sary this year, CCAD is a 405-bed hos­pi­tal, includ­ing 321 acute care beds, 84 crit­i­cal care beds, four roy­al suites, and 26 oper­at­ing rooms. 

Its state-of-the-art facil­i­ties pro­vide patients in the region with direct access to world-class health­care providers.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.archer.com

https://www.clevelandclinicabudhabi.ae

(Top pic­ture: Graph­ic image of Mid­night air­craft fly­ing over Abu Dhabi)

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