Services for foreigners and tourists
Service for tourist/foreigners in São Lucas Copacabana Hospital The Hospital São Lucas Copacabana was born on 1937, since then it is one of the main references in highly complex medicine in the south zone of Rio de Janeiro. The hospital is built in the heart of the Rio de Janeiro near the main tourist area, hotels and the most beautiful beach.
The Hospital São Lucas is already well known to be a reference of excellence in medicine for all people from Rio de Janeiro and nowadays started a special project to manage international medical cases and taking care of the foreigners when they are travelling in our city. More than a strategic location, here the tourist/foreigner has a special care protocol able to understand your necessities since the entrance until the discharge.
We have a multilingual staff around an international department - 24/7 - that will shelter the patient in the medical needs and able to clarify the providences to take when it´s necessary. Also the Hospital São Lucas has a big networking with the main international insurances companies, including travelling insurances because of that our team is able to handle the financial status of different international polices.
About the hospital infrastructure, medical specialties and a local summary: It has a complete structure: more than 200 hospital beds, a surgical center with 12 rooms equipped to carry out surgeries of various complexities and 74 beds of Intensive Care Unit, which covers the specialties of Cardiointensive, Neurointensive and a specialized unit to post-operative procedures, including transplants. It also offers the hemodynamics service, with high-tech equipment to diagnose and treat cardiological, vascular and neurological diseases. And an exclusive Imaging diagnostics unit, which performs magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, 3D echocardiogram, ultrasound, among others.
Hospital São Lucas Copacabana performs more than 1,000 surgeries per month, with emphasis on general surgery, orthopedics, urology and hepatobiliary, becoming a reference in surgical procedures in various medical specialties. In addition to modern equipment, such as robots, videolaparoscopy towers and state-of-the-art microscopes, offers strategic support for highly complex surgeries, including transplants. With the aim of ensuring the best safety and quality care for patients and their families, the hospital constantly invests in infrastructure, updating multidisciplinary teams and managed practices, ensuring increasingly better results.
The Emergency Room operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with a highly qualified team to respond to emergencies in an agile, efficient and humanized manner. In addition to clinical phisicians, there is cardiologists, orthopedists, ENT specialists and surgeons available for emergency care.
. Contact
João Marcos - Keepermed +55 (21) 99930-0779