Lists this hospital appears on
- Position as printed9 Newsweek and Statista, World's Best Hospitals 2026: United Arab Emirates (opens the publisher’s list in a new tab) Statista scored hospitals within each country on hospital quality metrics (40 per cent), peer recommendations from an online survey of medical experts (30 per cent national, 5 per cent international), patient experience data (18.5 per cent) and its PROMs Implementation Survey (6.5 per cent), and lists specialised hospitals separately without a rank.
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About the hospital
Tawam Hospital is a government tertiary care hospital in the Al Maqam area of Al Ain, in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. SEHA states that the hospital is owned and operated by Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA), a PureHealth subsidiary responsible for the curative activities of public hospitals and clinics in Abu Dhabi and the northern emirates. Tawam was established in 1979 and is licensed by the Department of Health, Abu Dhabi.
SEHA describes Tawam as a 561-bed facility. Listed services include adult and paediatric oncology, palliative care, IVF, a paediatric intensive care unit, paediatric genetics and metabolic services, paediatric allergy and immunology, an obesity centre for adults and children, physical therapy, pain management and a sleep unit, alongside emergency medicine, critical care, medicine, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, surgery, nuclear medicine, laboratory and radiology. The hospital sits within SEHA’s Al Ain region, which SEHA says comprises 978 beds.
Facts
- Beds
- 561 beds (SEHA website, 2026)
- Opened
- 1979
- Owner
- Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA), a PureHealth subsidiary (SEHA website)
- Address
- Al Maqam Area, Tawam district, Shakhbout bin Sultan Street, Al Ain
- Telephone
- 03 767 7444
- Licensing
- Department of Health, Abu Dhabi
- SEHA Al Ain region
- Includes Tawam, Al Ain and Al Wagan hospitals; 978 beds (SEHA website)
- Regional leadership
- Dr. Sultan Mohamed Alkaram, Chief Executive Officer, Al Ain Region (SEHA website)
Questions readers ask
Who runs Tawam Hospital?
Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA), a PureHealth subsidiary, which SEHA says owns and operates the hospital.
How many beds does Tawam Hospital have?
561 beds, according to SEHA.
Where is Tawam Hospital?
On Shakhbout bin Sultan Street in the Al Maqam area of Al Ain, Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Sources
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