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Steward Health Care Malta continues to strengthen its ITU bed facilities by the addition of 10 full- capability GE ventilators as part of their COVID-19 preparedness at Gozo General Hospital (GGH). Despite extreme shortages for ventilators internationally, Steward was able to procure 10 additional ventilators from GE in a short time, which are now ready to use at GGH. This was made possible throu...
A helpline has been launched to provide additional support to patients attending Karin Grech Hospital’s Physiotherapy Outpatients Department located within St Luke’s Hospital grounds. All those patients who cannot attend their appointment because of COVID-19 restrictions, or who have any other concern in relation to their physiotherapy progress, are encouraged to contact the new Helpline on 220813...
April 17 2020
Steward Malta relocates Sant’Anna Residents and Staff
As already announced in its COVID-19 contingency plan, Steward Health Care Malta has today completed the move of 72 elderly residents together with staff from Residenza Sant’Anna at Gozo General Hospital to the Downtown Hotel also located in Victoria. The hotel was made available three weeks ago through cooperation with the Ministry for Gozo so as to free up space in the Gozo Hospital to cater fo...
Following temporary closure of educational institutions across Europe, the Barts and the London Medical School located in the grounds of Gozo General Hospital is being put to good use in supporting the Gozo community in the fight against COVID-19. Steward Malta and Queen Mary University London have agreed for the School of Medicine and Dentistry Campus to support the Gozo Hospital by providing add...
Steward Health Care Malta yesterday submitted its application to redevelop the St Luke’s Hospital Campus to the relevant Planning Authority and it has continued to make progress at Gozo General Hospital marked by the response letter sent to the Planning Authority in what is being considered as yet another major milestone for this project. This has been possible through an intensive effort to invo...
Steward Health Care Malta today announced further improvements to the air-ambulance service which is used to transport patients from Gozo to Malta, through the upgrading of the air-ambulance helicopter and the introduction of an additional aircraft to be used as a stand-by back up option. The new air-ambulance being brought in is an Airbus Helicopter EC135 type, which is the most common type of a...
Steward Health Care Malta has today submitted an outlined development application for the St. Luke’s Hospital campus, following 9 months of planning and stakeholder meetings aimed at ensuring the site is developed in a way which will allow for care delivery for decades to come. During these months there has been an intensive effort to involve a broad cross-section of the campus community, external...
October 29 2019
Steward Health Care Malta Completes Medical School Building
Steward Health Care Malta was on Thursday awarded the service commencement certificate, paving the way for Queen Mary University London to welcome students on site for lectures this morning. Steward, who stepped into the concession in January 2018, was asked to prioritize the construction of the medical school. Works began in May 2018 on this 8100sqm state of the art facility and are now complete...
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat today visited the Barts Medical School on the Gozo General Hospital campus to see the progress being achieved on-site. In a press conference that followed the visit, the Prime Minister hailed the “astonishing advancement” achieved in what he described as a “state-of-the-art building”. The Barts Medical School building consists of 8100 sq. meters over 4 floors. This inc...
Maltese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health Chris Fearne, Minister for Gozo Justyne Caruana, and Gozo General Hospital Executive Director Joseph Fenech, today officially inaugurated the new Clinical Laboratory at Gozo General Hospital. The new laboratory represents an investment of €1.2 million in new infrastructure and equipment that will aid in optimizing workflows and outcomes, and t...
Maltese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health, Chris Fearne, Minister for Gozo Justyne Caruana and Gozo General Hospital Executive Director Joseph Fenech, today officially inaugurated the new Orthopaedics Ward at Gozo General Hospital, marking yet another project completed by Steward Health Care Malta. The new Orthopaedics Ward will be dedicated to hosting patients following total hip rep...
Maltese Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, together with Steward Health Care International President, Dr Armin Ernst, and Professor Steve Thornton from Queen Mary University of London, today officially inaugurated the Barts Anatomy Centre at Queen Mary’s Malta campus, marking a significant milestone in plans to improve the educational and health care offering in Gozo. To this end, Steward Health Care...
Steward Health Care Malta has invested in 18 new patient transport vehicles that will be used at St Luke’s Hospital, Karin Grech Hospital and Gozo General Hospital. The new hospital fleets will be replacing much older vehicles, some of which dated back to the early 90s, contributing to a much-improved experience to the hospital’s staff and patients. Dr Stephen Zammit, CEO of Karin Grech Hospital...
Steward Health Care Malta has today officially inaugurated the newly-refurbished reception area at Karin Grech Hospital. The inauguration was celebrated on-site and included the participation of the President of Steward Health Care International, Dr Armin Ernst, COO of Steward Malta, Dr Nadine Delicata, and CEO of Karin Grech Hospital, Dr Stephen Zammit. The reception area has been completely re...
Steward Health Care Malta today officially inaugurated the Orthotics and Prosthetics Unit at Karin Grech Hospital which is in partnership with renowned Prosthetics provider MCOPi. The centre which has now been seeing patients for the last months, provides a daily service to patients requiring an array of different prosthetic and orthotics devices. “Since starting work with MCOPi, the unit has h...
Steward Health Care Malta is part-sponsoring twenty staff members who have enrolled in the newly-launched MSc in Healthcare Management & Leadership being organised by the IDEA Leadership & Management Institute in collaboration with the Learning Institute for Healthcare Professionals. The course, which is the first of its kind in Gozo, was inaugurated by Hon. Justyne Caruana last Thursday ...
Steward Health Care officials, led by CEO Dr. Ralph De La Torre, today met with the Prime Minister of Malta and Malta Enterprise representatives to officially launch Steward’s public-private partnership with Malta.
Steward Health Care Malta today launched its first advertising campaign titled “I am a Steward”, featuring a host of clinical and non-clinical staff from Karin Grech Hospital and Gozo General Hospital.
April 19 2018
Karin Grech Hospital loses colleague and friend
It is with the greatest sadness to report that on the weekend of the 15th April 2018 Brewster “Taber” Hammond passed away in his residence, aged 33. Taber was the most passionate and driven of individuals, both in his private and professional career. Upon starting his position as Clinical Manager of prosthetics services at Karin Grech Hospital, it was immediately obvious that he was the most organ...
Steward Health Care Malta today welcomed the signing of a co-operation agreement between the Government of Malta and the Medical Association of Malta. Commenting on the signing, Dr Nadine Delicata, COO of Steward Malta reaffirmed Steward’s commitment to work with all stakeholders across Malta and Gozo in order to ensure high quality medical care is consistently delivered to the people of Malta and...
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