Medicana

Medicana Health Group is the health arm of Medicana Group, a company that also runs schools and a university (Fenerbahçe University, dated 2016 on the group's page). The board is chaired by Dr. Hüseyin Bozkurt. By the group's own account the first foundations were laid in 1992 and its hospitals have opened steadily since: Avcılar in 1995, Çamlıca in 1999, Bahçelievler in 2003, the International hospitals in Istanbul and Ankara in 2008, then Samsun, Konya, Sivas, Kadıköy, Bursa, İzmir, Ataşehir, Çeşme, Ataköy, Zincirlikuyu, and in 2025 Sarajevo and Winchester (UK).

The group's "about" page says it runs 16 hospitals and 3 medical centres and treats more than 4.5 million patients a year. Its own list of hospitals names 18 entries, some of which are medical centres, so the arithmetic depends on how an entry is counted. We use the figures as the group states them and do not reconcile them.

Medicana puts "International" in the name of four hospitals: Istanbul (Beylikdüzü), Ankara, İzmir and Samsun. The group also operates a separate website for international patients (medicanainternational.com) in several languages. For a visitor flying into Istanbul, the practical choices are the Beylikdüzü hospital on the western edge of the city, and the central and Asian-side hospitals — Zincirlikuyu, Ataşehir, Kadıköy, Ataköy — that opened since 2017 and are closer to the hotels most visitors use.

Beylikdüzü is a large complex and displays a health-tourism authorisation on its page. We read that one hospital page in detail and did not check whether the newer central hospitals display or hold one. That is a gap, not a finding — so check the Ministry's register by hospital name before you book.^[4]

This is the single most useful thing to understand about the group. Medicana's quality page does not claim one accreditation for the group; it lists, hospital by hospital, which body accredited which building in which year. Three bodies appear.

• TÜSKA (SAS). Türkiye's own accreditation institute and its Health Accreditation Standards. The group states it for International Ankara, Ataköy, Ataşehir and International İstanbul. TÜSKA publishes the list of organisations it has accredited, which is where to check.^[1]
• AACI. The American Accreditation Commission International, a private US-based accreditor. The group states it for Ataşehir, International İstanbul and International İzmir, together with clinical-centre-of-excellence certificates in endoscopy and oncology. An accreditor's award is only as useful as its register is public; ask the hospital for the certificate number and check it with AACI.
• JCI. Joint Commission International, stated for Medicana Bursa (2025). We found no JCI statement for the Istanbul hospitals.^[2]

A reader who sees "internationally accredited" on a Medicana page should therefore ask: which hospital, which body, which year, and is it in that body's register today? A certificate held by Bursa does not describe the building you will be treated in at Beylikdüzü.

The group lists oncology and surgical oncology, organ transplantation, bone-marrow transplantation, neurosurgery, IVF, genetics, cardiovascular surgery, orthopaedics and traumatology, and obesity surgery among its branches. The listing is group-wide. Not every hospital offers every branch, and the hospital-level pages are where the departments are named; for a transplant, bone-marrow or IVF programme in particular, ask which hospital runs it and who leads it.

We could not confirm any of the accreditations above at the accreditor's register, and the group's pages give no outcome data, waiting times or prices. This page is a map of what Medicana says and where to check it, not a verdict on its care.