Florence Nightingale Group

Group Florence Nightingale, based in Istanbul, Turkey, is a group of hospitals that offers patient-centered and specialized healthcare by integrating education, research and technology with clinical care. Group Florence Nightingale offers medical services with its over 900 patient beds, 41 operating rooms, 143 intensive care and 50 emergency beds, including its new hospital which started to serve in 2013 which is architecturally designed to be “a smart and green hospital”. Being named after the world reknowned Englishwoman nurse Ms. Florence Nightingale who is the pioneer of nursing and modern hospital concept, Group Florence Nightingale Hospitals still carries on and continously improves what the “Lady with the Lamp” had started in patient care standards. (By the patient care and hygiene standards Ms. Florence Nightingale brought with her to the battlefield during the Crimean War, she saved thousands of lives and gained the nickname of “Lady with the Lamp”.)

All Group Florence Nightingale physicians are fully licensed by the Turkish Medical Council to practice their specialty in Turkey. In addition, many are Board Certified in their specialty in the US, Australia, or Europe. The Group Florence Nightingale credentialing process requires a formal review of each doctor’s qualifications and track record by the Credentials and Bylaws Committee and the Hospital’s Medical Executive Committee. These reviews take place before a doctor is appointed to the medical staff by the Hospital’s Board of Governors, and then again every three years thereafter. A summary of each of our physician’s qualifications is available on our website. If you would like to review the qualifications or specific experience of your physician in more detail when you arrive, we can arrange for you to do so. Nurses, pharmacists, imaging and lab technicians must undergo schooling and pass certification exams to obtain licenses to practice at the Group Florence Nightingale. Nurses are re-certified at 5-year intervals. Those with special responsibilities (such as ICU nurses) must receive special training and be certified as competent in those areas.