This partnership aims to build a new teaching hospital to simultaneously support their medical school and create healthcare solutions for their growing community in Al Khobar province of Saudi Arabia.
With the completion of this ongoing project, the new hospital will provide needed healthcare for a growing community that currently lacks a community hospital. It will also offer PMU’s future medical students a facility where they can train close to home, serving the population in their immediate vicinity, and in a facility that is designed to serve their learning needs. Over time, this hospital will grow to serve as an international destination for individuals from around the region, as well.
TIEC, a longstanding partner to PMU, now serves as project manager for the initial planning stages of the new hospital. TIEC has drawn on a wealth of healthcare and medical teaching expertise across TIEC’s membership — including eight experts representing four Texas member universities — and the industry-leading private healthcare sector within Texas to advise PMU’s leadership.
The hospital project builds on nearly two decades of collaboration between PMU and TIEC. The two institutions began cooperation some 17 years ago. Through TIEC’s academic consulting services, large teams of Texas faculty and administrators worked side by side with peers in Al Khobar to plan and develop every aspect of the then-new university. In the past, TIEC and its partners have closely examined the academic programs offered by PMU’s colleges of arts and sciences, business administration, computer engineering and science, engineering, law, architecture and graphic design.