Hisar Intercontinental Hospital

Hisar Intercontinental Hospital is a private, multi-specialty hospital in the Ümraniye district of Istanbul, on the Anatolian side of the city. The hospital's website says it began operating in 2005 and describes itself as a reference hospital for patients from turkey and from abroad. You may also see it called Hisar Hospital Istanbul; the site itself uses Hisar Hospital Intercontinental. For an international orthopedic patient, it is a general hospital with a dedicated orthopedics and traumatology department rather than a stand-alone orthopedic clinic.

The main building stands on Site Yolu Street in the Yamanevler quarter. According to the hospital's pages, the building has 8 floors, 7 operating rooms and 33 intensive care beds. Other figures, such as bed capacity, floor area and the number of clinics, differ between its Turkish and English pages, so we do not quote them. A coordinator can confirm current numbers before you plan travel.

What the hospital says about itself

The site presents Hisar Intercontinental Hospital as a place where many departments work under one roof. Besides orthopedics and spinal health, it names cardiology, gynaecology, oncology, hematology and neuroscience among its fields, and the English pages also mention bariatric surgery, dental treatment, IVF and health check-ups. A broad hospital can be useful for orthopedic patients who also have heart, diabetes or other conditions that need review before anaesthesia.

The hospital also runs a second site, the Çamlıca branch, on Cengiz Topel Street in Ümraniye. This page concerns the main hospital on Site Yolu Street, which is where the orthopedics and traumatology department is described.

The orthopedics and traumatology department

The Hisar Intercontinental Hospital orthopedics page says the department deals with diseases of bones, joints and muscles, covering the arms, legs, spine and pelvis, including tumours of the musculoskeletal system. It lists eight units. They are arthroscopic surgery, adult reconstructive surgery with joint prostheses, shock wave therapy, a page on back pain in young adults and a spine surgery centre. The rest are sports traumatology and joint surgery, trauma and deformity care, and orthopedic cancers.

The same page names non-surgical tools as well, such as medication, physiotherapy and rehabilitation, joint injections and casting, and its article list also covers PRP and stem cell treatment for the knee. Which of these suits you is a medical decision for the treating surgeon after reviewing your scans.

Why an international patient might consider it

Three published facts stand out for Hisar Intercontinental Hospital. First, the hospital states JCI accreditation, which is an international quality framework many overseas patients look for. Second, it runs an international patient office with English pages and a dedicated recovery specialist for each overseas patient. Third, its location in Ümraniye places it on the Anatolian side, which some patients prefer for quieter recovery stays than the busy historic centre.

Orthopedics Abroad does not own or run Hisar Intercontinental Hospital. The hospital is available through Orthopedics Abroad's network, which means we can help you assemble records, compare it with other options in Istanbul and ask the hospital's coordinators the right questions. You can browse the wider hospital directory or read how orthopedic care in turkey is organised.

No page can replace a surgeon's opinion. If you have a sudden injury, a hot swollen joint, loss of limb feeling or loss of bladder control, seek emergency care where you live. Emergencies and acute trauma are treated locally first. Travel for surgery is for stable or planned cases once your own doctors agree.

Hisar Intercontinental Hospital is a general hospital whose orthopedic unit relies on the departments around it: imaging, anaesthesia, intensive care, pharmacy systems and rehabilitation. This section describes the wider hospital as its website presents it, so that you understand the setting in which an orthopedic operation would take place.

History and size

The website gives 2005 as the year the hospital started serving patients. It also says the hospital was accredited by JCI in its first year and has renewed that accreditation since. The hospital describes a building of 8 floors and lists 7 operating rooms. Its Turkish and English pages disagree on bed capacity, usable floor area and the number of clinics. We leave those figures out. Ask for current numbers in writing.

The English pages do not publish a surgeon headcount for the whole hospital. The orthopedics department page lists its specialists by name and title. We do not repeat names here. For orthopedic surgery in Istanbul at this hospital, ask the coordinator which specialist would handle your case and how often they perform your specific procedure.

Imaging and diagnostics

For orthopedics, imaging often decides the plan. The hospital's about page mentions a 640-detector CT system, described as an Aquilion One, and a 3 Tesla MRI unit with a video system, described as making scanning more comfortable. These details come from the hospital's own description. If you already have scans, the team will normally want the original image files and not only the written reports.

Medication safety and special units

The hospital says it uses a fingerprint-activated computerised medication cabinet system known as PYXIS, a way of controlling who can take which medicine and when. It also lists a hyperbaric oxygen centre. A hyperbaric unit is not part of routine joint replacement, but it shows the breadth of the hospital's services.

Intensive care

The hospital states 33 intensive care beds. For orthopedic patients this matters mostly when surgery is complex, when the patient is older, or when heart and lung conditions raise the risk of major surgery. Ask in advance whether a planned operation would normally involve an intensive care stay.

Quality and safety systems

The JCI page says the hospital's latest routine three-year inspection took place from 6 to 10 May 2024. It calls this the sixth renewal and says the certificate remains valid until May 2027. The same page says the hospital also works within the national healthcare quality standards set by the turkey Ministry of Health. JCI describes an accreditation as a snapshot of standards at inspection time, so patients should ask for the current certificate before booking.

Digital services

The website offers online appointment booking, an electronic results platform, an ask-the-doctor feature and online doctor consultations. For a patient abroad, the results platform and online consultations can make pre-operative review and later follow-up easier. Confirm the exact process for foreign patients with the international office.

Where it sits in Istanbul

The Ümraniye hospital stands in Ümraniye, a large residential and business district on the Anatolian side. The site says the hospital is around 20 minutes from Sabiha Gökçen International Airport and from the Bosphorus. Journey times depend on traffic, which varies strongly by hour in Istanbul. Treat this as a general guide and ask the coordinator for a realistic estimate for your arrival time.

To understand how this hospital sits within the wider city, read the Istanbul city page and the guide to why patients choose turkey.

The Hisar Intercontinental Hospital orthopedics unit is an orthopedic hospital Istanbul patients can reach on the Anatolian side, and it covers the musculoskeletal system from the spine to the limbs. Its department page organises the work into eight named units. This section explains each in plain terms and links to the matching procedure guides where the hospital's own wording clearly supports it.

Arthroscopic surgery

The department describes arthroscopic surgery as minimally invasive treatment of joint injuries and certain joint problems through small incisions with a camera. The hospital's pages name the knee as the most common site, and also describe arthroscopy of the shoulder, ankle and hip, with the elbow and wrist mentioned as further joints. You can read about knee arthroscopy, shoulder arthroscopy, ankle arthroscopy and hip arthroscopy. Ask which joints your surgeon performs most often.

Adult reconstructive surgery and joint prostheses

This unit covers reconstruction and the placement of joint prostheses in adults, and its page describes prostheses mainly for the hip and knee. For worn joints, the usual operations are total knee replacement and total hip replacement. Patients with advanced knee osteoarthritis often come to such a unit when injections and physiotherapy no longer control pain. The site does not publish implant brands or whether robotic systems are used, so these questions belong on your checklist.

Sports traumatology and joint surgery

The sports unit deals with injuries to joints, muscles and tendons that come from sport or activity. The hospital's pages say knee arthroscopy is used for meniscus tears and anterior cruciate ligament injuries. Related guides cover an ACL tear, ACL reconstruction and meniscus repair. Confirm with the surgeon that your exact case falls within their routine work.

Spine surgery centre

The hospital's spine surgery centre page describes care for spinal curvature such as scoliosis and kyphosis. It also names slipped vertebrae, spinal fractures and dislocations, infections, tumours and degenerative narrowing of the spinal canal. It also mentions vertebroplasty and balloon kyphoplasty for osteoporotic fractures, and monitoring of the spinal cord during operations. Related guides include herniated disc, spinal stenosis and scoliosis, with procedure pages on scoliosis surgery and kyphoplasty. The site does not say how many cases the team handles, so ask for experience with your exact diagnosis.

Trauma and deformity

This unit covers fractures, dislocations and deformities that follow injury. The hospital describes a trauma team working 24 hours a day. It names external fixator techniques, including the Ilizarov method for limb lengthening and deformity correction. It also names treatment of bones that fail to heal and care of chronic bone infection. Its article list also covers hip fracture treatment; see our guide to hip fracture surgery. However, fresh fractures are emergencies. If you break a bone abroad or at home, you should be treated where it happened, and later planned corrective surgery can be considered elsewhere.

Shock wave therapy, back pain and orthopedic oncology

The department also lists extracorporeal shock wave therapy as a non-surgical option. The hospital describes it for problems such as slow-healing fractures, heel spurs, tennis elbow and shoulder calcification. It also has a section on back pain in young adults and a unit for bone tumours. Tumour care is a specialist field and usually needs a full oncology team; ask how cases are reviewed.

Non-surgical treatment

The department says treatment can include medication, physical therapy and rehabilitation, joint injections with steroid or hyaluronic acid and casting, as well as surgery. Its article list also covers PRP and knee stem cell treatment. Evidence for injections like these varies by condition, so ask your surgeon what benefit to expect.

Orthopedic services at a glance

For body-area overviews, see our pages on the knee, hip, shoulder, foot and ankle and spine. To understand costs, read the total knee replacement cost guide or the total hip replacement cost guide; we do not quote figures on hospital pages.

Hisar Intercontinental Hospital runs an international patient office that, according to its English pages, assigns a dedicated recovery specialist to each overseas patient. This section describes what the hospital says it offers and how the process usually works when you use Orthopedics Abroad to organise the steps around it.

What the hospital states

The hospital's international pages list scheduling of appointments, airport transfers with a greeting service, air and ground ambulance transport, interpreting, help with hotels, guidance through admission and discharge, contact with health insurers, payment arrangements, second opinions, telemedicine consultations and follow-up after discharge. It also says its recovery specialists reply to every enquiry within 24 hours after the initial medical reports have been reviewed. We have not tested these services ourselves, so confirm each one in writing.

How the process usually runs

Most planned orthopedic journeys follow the same path. First, you share your diagnosis, scans and medical history. Our medical record review guide lists what is useful. Second, the hospital's surgeons review the file and tell you whether surgery is advisable, which operation they suggest and what they need to see in person. Third, you plan travel, using the travel and accommodation guide and the treatment planning guide.

On arrival, the hospital handles registration and tests. Our hospital admission guide explains the usual steps. After surgery, the team plans rehabilitation, and our follow-up guide explains how to stay in touch with your home physician once you return.

What to organise before you travel

Honest limits

The hospital's public pages do not publish the number of orthopedic operations performed, implant brands, infection rates or outcomes, and we have not invented any. Language support is listed, but ask whether your surgeon speaks your language directly or through an interpreter. Flying after surgery has its own rules, so read our guide on flying after surgery and plan a companion using the companion guide.

When you are ready, send your records through the quote request form. We pass your file to the hospital and report back what its team says; we do not promise a result or a date.

Hisar Intercontinental Hospital is in Ümraniye, on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, so most international visitors arrive through one of the city's airports and travel overland. The hospital's website says the main building is roughly 20 minutes from Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, though traffic in Istanbul changes this quickly.

Reaching the hospital

The main address is Yamanevler Mah. Site Yolu Cad. No: 7, Ümraniye. Sabiha Gökçen is the closest of Istanbul's two big airports and sits on the same side of the Bosphorus. Istanbul Airport is on the European side, and the transfer from there crosses the strait and can take much longer in busy hours. We do not publish exact distances or times because they vary with the hour. The hospital's English pages mention airport transfers with a greeting service, so ask the coordinator to arrange a pick-up and confirm the plan for your arrival time.

The district

Ümraniye is a large, mostly residential and commercial district rather than a historic tourist area. That can mean quieter surroundings, practical access to shops and transport, and less sightseeing on your doorstep. If you want to see the old city after recovery, expect a cross-city journey. For general background, read the Istanbul guide.

Where to stay

The hospital's international pages say it works with contracted hotels and can help with reservations. We have no price or distance data to share, so ask the coordinator for hotels close to the hospital with lifts, step-free access and good rooms for patients on crutches. For longer stays, apartment-style rentals may suit companions, but check that they are near pharmacies and taxis. See the travel and accommodation guide for more.

Season and recovery

Istanbul has hot summers and cooler, wetter winters. Summer heat can make wearing a brace or compression stockings uncomfortable, while winter rain and wet pavements raise the risk of slips for patients using crutches. Spring and autumn are milder. Your surgeon may also advise on the timing of flights, which depends on the operation, so check the guide to flying after surgery.

Contact before you go

The hospital lists a main number and a call-centre number on its contact page. Use our quote form if you would like us to open the conversation on your behalf, and arrange your first video call before booking flights.