Acıbadem Bursa Hospital

This is the shortest hospital page on this site, and the reason is worth stating plainly: less is published about it than about the group's Istanbul hospitals.

What is established comes from Acıbadem's own clinician profiles. Two clinicians name this hospital as their base — Assoc. Prof. İmam Bakır Batı at its liver transplant centre, and Salih Gülten at its kidney transplant centre. Both profiles are published by the group itself, which makes them a sound source for the existence of those units and for who staffs them.

What is not established is everything a capacity comparison would need. Acıbadem's international material lists bed counts, operating theatre counts and JCI accreditation status for eight of its hospitals; Bursa is not among the eight. We could find no published figures for this site.

The temptation at that point is to reach for the group's numbers and present them as though they described this hospital. That would be the specific error this page exists to avoid. A JCI accreditation held by Acıbadem Atakent tells you nothing about Acıbadem Bursa, and a reader comparing centres on borrowed figures is comparing something that does not exist.

So: ask the group directly for this hospital's bed count, its intensive care capacity, and whether this site holds JCI accreditation in its own right.

Two named units are established from clinician profiles.

The liver transplant centre. Assoc. Prof. İmam Bakır Batı publishes this hospital as his base, with a subspecialty in pancreatic, liver and biliary tract disease. His stated focus is liver transplantation, liver cancer, cirrhosis and metabolic liver disease — a liver practice spanning the disease as well as the operation.

The kidney transplant centre. Salih Gülten publishes this hospital as his base, in kidney transplantation and the coordination of kidney, organ and tissue transplant processes. He is a transplant coordinator rather than a surgeon, which is a distinction worth holding onto: if you are being treated here, the surgeon performing a kidney transplant is somebody whose name you should ask for separately.

That is a small published team for a hospital running two transplant centres, and it does not mean the team is small — it means two clinicians publish profiles. Ask how many surgeons the transplant service has, and who covers it when your surgeon is unavailable.

Bursa is a city in north-western Türkiye, roughly two hours from Istanbul by a combination of road and ferry across the Sea of Marmara. It is not an Istanbul suburb, and it should not be planned for as though it were.

That matters for a transplant specifically, because the stay is long and it is not all in hospital. A recipient is discharged into close monitoring near the centre — blood tests several times a week, dose adjustments, early detection of rejection — and stays nearby until the team is satisfied. Accommodation, transport and a companion's costs are all Bursa's, not Istanbul's.

International flights arrive in Istanbul. Factor the transfer in both directions, and ask the centre how patients usually make it — a recently operated transplant recipient crossing on a ferry is a different proposition from a taxi across a city.

None of this is a mark against the hospital. It is the practical consequence of where it is, and it is the kind of thing a quoted package price will not mention.