What You Should Know:
– Saudi’s Health Holding Company, the largest healthcare provider in the region, and Mass General Brigham, one of the world’s leading academic health care systems, today announced the next phase of their strategic partnership during the Global Health Exhibition (GHE) 2025.
– The milestone focuses on advancing the implementation of the Saudi Model of Care, accelerating nationwide adoption, building national capacity, and strengthening clinical governance to achieve Saudi Vision 2030’s goal of a world-class, patient-centered health care system.
Advancing the Saudi Model of Care
The Saudi Model of Care is a comprehensive, prevention-focused framework designed to deliver integrated, equitable, and high-quality care across the Kingdom’s 20 health clusters. As a cornerstone of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 Health Sector Transformation Program, the model emphasizes preventative health, integration across service levels, and greater accountability for outcomes, anchored around six pillars of care: Wellness, Planned Care, Chronic Care, Urgent Care, Safe Birth, and Palliative Care.
Mass General Brigham will serve as a strategic advisor to the Health Holding Company, providing expertise and best practices to support the implementation of this national framework.
Dr. Luis Lobon, MD, Vice President of Advisory at Mass General Brigham International, stated, “This next milestone underscores our shared commitment to transforming healthcare through knowledge exchange, innovation, and sustainable impact — all in support of realizing Vision 2030.”.
Tangible Results and Capacity Building
The partnership, established via a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in 2023, has already delivered measurable outcomes.
- Emergency Care Excellence: In AlUla, the organizations collaborated to transform emergency care services. With support from Mass General Brigham, Prince Abdul Mohsen Hospital’s Emergency Department earned its first national accreditation. This initiative significantly reduced patient wait times while maintaining high standards of care and safety.
- Leadership Development: Building on this success, the partners launched the Leadership Essentials Program in collaboration with the Institute for Excellence in Health Leadership (IEDLI), marking the first program of its kind in the Middle East. The inaugural session, held in AlUla in December 2024, trained a new generation of Saudi healthcare leaders.
Blueprint for Global Integrated Care
The collaboration combines Mass General Brigham’s historical legacy of academic medicine and research with the Health Holding Company’s bold national mandate to strengthen service quality and accountability. Representatives from both organizations, including Dr. Luis Lobón and Dr. Michael VanRooen of Mass General Brigham and Dr. Saad Alasiri of the Health Holding Company, underscored the importance of cross-border collaboration during a panel discussion at GHE 2025.
