Acibadem Altunizade Hospital

Acibadem Altunizade Hospital is the Acıbadem group’s Anatolian-side flagship and one of its two most technology-dense campuses: a JCI-accredited, LEED-certified hospital of 98,000 m² opened in March 2017 as the group’s 21st hospital, with 350 beds, 18 operating theatres and 75 intensive-care beds. Its machine park reads like the radiation oncology guide’s index — Gamma Knife radiosurgery, Tomotherapy, PET-CT — beside da Vinci robotic surgery and 3-Tesla imaging; and it is the campus several unit guides name as home: neurosurgery’s Altunizade professors, the group’s only medical genetics centre, the second half of the bariatric programme, thoracic and general surgery leads, and more. This guide covers the whole of it, with the live numbers, rooms and visiting rules in their own dedicated sections of this page.

What this building is organised around

Altunizade was built as the answer to a specific question: what does a complete flagship look like on the Anatolian side? The result concentrates surgical depth — 18 theatres, 75 intensive-care beds, robotic platforms — with the radiosurgery and radiotherapy machines that let brain and cancer cases be treated without crossing the city, and the diagnostic engine (PET-CT, 3-Tesla MRI, subspecialist laboratories) that complex medicine runs on. LEED certification covers the building’s engineering; JCI accreditation covers its care processes; and the floor plan covers the rest: when the tumour board, the scanner, the geneticist and the operating theatre share one address, the days between question and answer shrink — which is the honest advantage this campus sells.

JCI accreditation — and what it actually promises you

Acibadem Altunizade Hospital holds Joint Commission International accreditation — one of five Acıbadem hospitals in Türkiye that do — meaning its care processes are audited on site, in cycles, against hundreds of measurable standards: surgical safety checklists, medication-error prevention, infection control, staff credentialing and the reporting culture that catches problems early. Accreditation does not make a hospital infallible; it makes it inspectable — the reason a patient from another country can reasonably trust systems they cannot personally verify. The group’s ISO-accredited laboratories and this building’s LEED certificate complete the audited picture.

Gamma Knife, Tomotherapy and the radiation floor

Altunizade houses radiosurgery and radiotherapy capability that few campuses anywhere combine. The Gamma Knife — explained honestly in the radiation oncology machine park and in neurosurgery’s own gamma-knife section — treats brain metastases, acoustic neuromas, meningiomas, vascular malformations and trigeminal neuralgia, usually in a single session, with the unit’s Gamma Knife-focused Altunizade professors behind it. Tomotherapy delivers the helical radiotherapy the machine-park guide describes as the tool for long and complex volumes. Around them sit the full external-beam programme, nuclear medicine’s PET-CT for staging and theranostics, and the coming-from-abroad honesty that the schedule is the trip. For a brain lesion or a cancer plan that includes radiation, this campus and Maslak are the group’s two centres of gravity — and the coordinators say plainly which fits your case.

Neurosurgery and the brain-spine system

The neurosurgery unit’s Altunizade professors carry brain tumour, skull-base, spine and functional surgery on this campus, with the Gamma Knife upstairs as the non-surgical alternative weighed openly every time it is genuine — the exact both-options-at-one-table method that unit’s guide describes. Neurology covers the medical side, and the combination matters most in the situations the guides name: a tumour that might be watched, radiosurgery or resected; a spine that might be operated or rehabilitated; an epilepsy that might be medical or surgical.

Medical genetics — the group’s single centre

The medical genetics unit — the group’s one dedicated centre, as its guide states — is based at Altunizade: cancer-risk genetics including BRCA and Lynch assessment, rare-disease diagnosis, the consanguinity and carrier questions its guide answers with unusual honesty, and the counselling-first method that treats a result as something a family lives with rather than a PDF. For international patients this is one of the fields where the records-first model shines: pedigree and prior results reviewed remotely, testing planned precisely, and the genetics conversation held with an interpreter whose brief includes the hard parts.

The surgical floors: general, thoracic, bariatric, robotic

Altunizade’s 18 theatres carry the group’s Anatolian-side surgical depth. The general surgery unit — whose guide leads with Altunizade — covers hernia to hepatobiliary with laparoscopic and da Vinci robotic options framed the way this platform frames all technology: used where they genuinely help. Thoracic surgery, led from Maslak and Altunizade, handles the lung-nodule and lung-cancer operations its guide calls the most winnable territory it measured. The bariatric and metabolic programme’s second centre runs here with the same full-programme honesty as Ataşehir. And paediatric surgery’s Altunizade leads carry the children’s operations that should never be scaled-down adult procedures — including the unit guide’s signature honesty about when not to operate at all.

The medical layer: mind, lungs, hormones, diagnosis

The psychiatry unit’s Altunizade professor anchors mental health care on campus — including the consultation-liaison work its guide describes as psychiatry woven into medical wards rather than housed apart. Pulmonology and internal medicine carry the chest and whole-picture medicine; clinical nutrition’s Altunizade-led team partners both the bariatric floor and oncology; pathology’s Altunizade professors read the biopsies everything else depends on; and radiology runs the imaging backbone with the second-opinion honesty its guide is built on. Paediatrics completes the campus for families.

Technology, honestly framed

Gamma Knife, Tomotherapy, da Vinci, PET-CT, 3-Tesla MRI — Altunizade concentrates headline machines, and precisely because it does, the platform’s standing rule matters most here: the plan chooses the machine, never the reverse. A Gamma Knife session is right for the lesion the radiosurgery criteria fit — not for every brain finding; a robot helps the operations where trials say it helps; and when your plan needs the MR-Linac, that machine lives at Maslak and the coordinators say so. The unit guides linked across this page answer the honest question — does this technology change your outcome — machine by machine.

The international patient service, step by step

The group’s fixed process runs here with Altunizade’s own team. First contact: reports and imaging through secure channels, any language, translation handled here. Remote review: the specialist or tumour board answers in writing — the provisional plan, a genuine cost estimate, and whether travel is justified at all; for Gamma Knife referrals this stage is decisive, because radiosurgery candidacy is a criteria question your scans usually answer without a flight. Scheduling: sequenced so the trip is as short as the medicine allows — single-session radiosurgery and surgical stays compress well; fractionated radiotherapy courses are measured in weeks, and the plan says which is which before you book. During care: named coordinator, interpreter support through every consultation and consent (English, Arabic, Russian, German and French routinely; others arranged). Departure: written summary, your imaging and data, and a follow-up plan addressed to your home clinician — the handover every unit guide treats as part of the treatment.

The standing honesty notes: a written estimate becomes exact after examination — transparency, not a to-the-lira quote; and payment, insurer and guarantee-letter arrangements are settled in writing before travel.

Getting here, staying nearby

Altunizade sits at the Anatolian-side end of the Bosphorus crossings, beside the main motorway interchange — one of Istanbul’s best-connected addresses: both airports are workable (Sabiha Gökçen on this side, Istanbul Airport across the bridges), transfers are arranged by the international office as standard, and the Üsküdar district around it offers hotels, serviced apartments and everyday city life within minutes. When a plan spans campuses — Maslak’s MR-Linac, Ataşehir’s metabolic floor — inter-hospital transport is coordinated rather than left to you.

How to decide whether Altunizade is your hospital

Choose Altunizade when your situation touches what this campus demonstrably concentrates: brain and spine disease where surgery and Gamma Knife radiosurgery should be weighed together, cancer care built on PET-CT staging and a full radiation floor, genetic assessment at the group’s only dedicated centre, complex general, thoracic, bariatric and paediatric surgery, and the psychiatric and medical depth beneath them. Maslak mirrors this campus on the European side with the MR-Linac as its distinguishing machine; Ataşehir leads the metabolic programme jointly with Altunizade; and the coordinators route between the three honestly. If a records-based opinion answers your question, that is a complete outcome — the group’s radiosurgery and genetics questions in particular are often answered exactly that way, without a flight.

Frequently asked questions

How do international patients start treatment at Acibadem Altunizade Hospital?

With records: reports and imaging are reviewed remotely, a written plan and cost estimate follow, and travel is booked when the plan justifies it — coordinated end to end by the international office.

Which languages are supported?

English, Arabic, Russian, German and French interpreter support as routine, other languages arranged — through consultations, consent and discharge teaching alike.

Is Altunizade JCI-accredited?

Yes — one of the five JCI-accredited Acıbadem hospitals in Türkiye, with the group’s ISO-accredited laboratories and the building’s LEED certificate alongside.

How big is the campus?

98,000 m² with 350 beds, 18 operating theatres and 75 intensive-care beds — the group’s 21st hospital, opened in March 2017.

What is the Gamma Knife, and is it available here?

Yes — Gamma Knife radiosurgery for brain metastases, acoustic neuroma, meningioma, vascular malformations and trigeminal neuralgia is delivered on this campus, and both the radiation oncology and neurosurgery guides explain honestly who it genuinely fits.

Can Gamma Knife candidacy be assessed without travelling?

Usually yes — radiosurgery candidacy is a criteria question your existing MRI largely answers, so the remote review typically settles it in writing before any flight.

What is Tomotherapy used for?

Helical radiotherapy for long or complex volumes — the machine-park section of the radiation oncology guide explains where it genuinely outperforms conventional delivery.

Does Altunizade offer robotic surgery?

Yes — da Vinci robotic surgery across general surgery and its neighbours, framed the platform’s way: used for the operations where it genuinely helps, not as a selling point.

Why is medical genetics centred here?

The group runs one dedicated medical genetics centre and it is at Altunizade — cancer-risk testing, rare-disease diagnosis and counselling-first assessment, as the genetics guide describes.

Is genetic testing possible from abroad?

Assessment starts remotely with your family history and prior results; where testing needs a sample here, the visit is planned precisely — and results are always delivered with counselling, not as a bare report.

Is this a good campus for lung surgery?

Yes — thoracic surgery is led from Maslak and Altunizade, and the thoracic guide walks through the lung-nodule and lung-cancer pathways honestly, including when surgery is not the answer.

Does the bariatric programme run here too?

Yes — Altunizade is the programme’s second centre alongside Ataşehir, with the same full team around the operation and the same honest candidacy rules the bariatric guide states.

Can children have surgery at Altunizade?

Yes — paediatric surgery’s Altunizade leads operate here with paediatrics behind them, and their guide’s signature honesty applies: sometimes the right decision is not to operate.

What imaging and staging is on site?

PET-CT through nuclear medicine, 3-Tesla MRI, full CT and ultrasound, and interventional radiology — with subspecialist reads, and remote re-reads of your existing scans as standard.

Do you repeat the tests I bring?

Only for a stated reason — existing imaging and laboratory work is integrated wherever quality allows, and a repeat is explained, not assumed.

How fast is scheduling for international cases?

Coordinator-managed rather than a public queue, with urgent cases fast-tracked medically — the true variable is your records arriving first.

How long would a radiosurgery visit take?

Gamma Knife treatment is usually a single session — assessment, planning, treatment and a check typically compress into days, which is why it is one of the most travel-efficient treatments the group offers.

How long do radiotherapy courses take here?

Fractionated courses run over weeks by design — the radiation oncology guide’s coming-from-abroad section explains the honest arithmetic before you book anything.

Can my companion stay with me?

Rooms are designed for companions and the visiting rules on this page state the current arrangements; intensive-care and children’s settings have their own explained protocols.

Which airport should I fly into?

Both work: Sabiha Gökçen sits on this side of the city, Istanbul Airport connects across the bridges, and transfer from either is arranged as standard.

Is the neighbourhood practical for a longer stay?

Yes — Üsküdar’s hotels, serviced apartments and everyday amenities are minutes away, and the campus’s motorway position keeps the rest of the city reachable.

How does payment work for international patients?

Written estimate before travel; payment methods, insurers and guarantee letters confirmed case by case in writing by the international office — billing is settled before treatment, not after.

Does the hospital work with international insurers?

Case by case and in writing for your specific treatment, arranged before you fly.

Can I get a second opinion without travelling?

Yes — written, records-based second opinions are standard, and radiosurgery and genetics questions in particular are often fully answerable this way.

Will my home doctor receive a proper handover?

Always — a written summary, your imaging and laboratory data, and a follow-up plan addressed to the clinician continuing your care.

What should I bring?

All reports and scans in any language, a complete medication list including supplements, and your written questions — records are the most valuable luggage.

Is emergency care available on site?

Yes — a full round-the-clock emergency service backed by the theatres and 75 intensive-care beds of a flagship campus.

Do the doctors here appear in the unit guides?

Yes — the guides label each lead’s hospital, and the Altunizade-labelled professors in neurosurgery, radiation oncology, general and thoracic surgery, psychiatry, genetics and pathology practise on this campus.

What if Maslak or Ataşehir suits my case better?

The coordinators say so and route you — the MR-Linac lives at Maslak, the metabolic programme’s twin centre at Ataşehir — because the right campus beats the nearest one.

Why choose Altunizade over other hospitals in Istanbul?

For what this page can evidence: JCI-audited systems in a LEED-certified building, Gamma Knife and Tomotherapy on site, PET-CT staging, the group’s genetics centre, deep surgical floors with 75 intensive-care beds beneath — and an international process that starts from your records, with honest routing when another campus fits better.