a cluster · ColombiaBogotá

also: Bogota · Santafé de Bogotá · Distrito Capital

Bo-go-TAH. At 2,640 metres it is the third-highest capital in the world, which is a clinical fact before it is a geographical one.

Colombia's capital and largest city, the country's medical as well as political centre, sitting at 2,640 metres on the Bogotá savanna. Its export trade is complex hospital work — cardiac, oncological, transplant and neurosurgical — sold mostly to patients from elsewhere in Colombia, from the Caribbean and from Central America, rather than to North Americans on a package.

Every one OpenStreetMap carries

hospital (157)clinic (265)dental surgery (408)written up here (1)the dashed circle is the radius this record names

What mappers have mapped inside 25 km of this point, as of the fetch date on the coverage page. A place missing here is missing from the map; a place here is a point with a name and little else.

860 points on this map, first 120 listed

The whole harvest, every hub, is in api/facilities.json.

Name	Kind
Acadent	dentist
Accion Medica	clinic
Adevida	dentist
ADJ Odontologia	dentist
Adriana Restrepo	dentist
Adriana Trejos	dentist
AHPNE	rehabilitation
Aleandes	clinic
Alexandra Correa Diseño y de sonrisa	dentist
Algorhem Hermadents	dentist
Aliansalud	hospital
Alianza	clinic
Allianz	clinic
Allianz Centro Medico	clinic
Alma Dental	dentist
Almacen Dental	dentist
Alta Estetica & Ortodoncia	dentist
American Dental	dentist
Analizar	laboratory
Ango Fisioterapia	hospital
Anibal Garcia Navaro	dentist
APDENT	dentist
Arte Dent	dentist
Arte Dental	dentist
Arte Dental	dentist
Arte Dental	dentist
Artesanias Dental JB	dentist
Aso Dent Clínica Odontológicas	dentist
Asociacion Mutual San Jorge	clinic
Asociación San Bartolomé Apóstol	clinic
Aurum	clinic
Avamed	clinic
Avellaneda	clinic
Balaguehr	dentist
Bell Salud	dentist
Benitez Yanez Odontologia Estetica	dentist
Bethel	dentist
Bio Imagen	laboratory
biodent	dentist
Bloque N/ Santa Barbara	clinic
Bocas Odontologia	dentist
BOCCA	dentist
Bodegas de los Laboratorio Médicos Gonger	laboratory
Buitrago	dentist
C. Odontologica	dentist
Cafam	clinic
CAFAM Centro de Salud	clinic
Cafam Clínica	clinic
Cafe Salud	clinic
CafeSalud	clinic
CafeSalud EPS	clinic
CAMI Bachue	clinic
CAMI Clínica de Medicina Interna Tunjuelito	clinic
Cami Dent Pluss	dentist
CAMI Gran Britalia	hospital
CAMI La Perseverancia	hospital
Cami Suba	hospital
Cancha Microfutbol Altablanca	hospital
CAP San Cristóbal	hospital
Capital Salud	clinic
CAPS Abraham Lincoln	clinic
CAPS centro de atención prioritaria de salud	clinic
CAPS Ismael Perdomo	clinic
CAPS Villa Javier	hospital
Carolina Rodríguez	dentist
Casa dental Eduardo Daza LTDA.	dentist
Cayre	clinic
CDI campos de plata	rehabilitation
CDI campos de plata	rehabilitation
Cencadent	dentist
Cenfima S.a.s	rehabilitation
Centro Cardiológico de Bogotá	clinic
Centro De Análisis Molecular	clinic
Centro de Atencion Chircales	clinic
Centro de Atención Básica Quirigua	hospital
Centro de Atención las Lomas	hospital
Centro de Atención Prioritaria en Salud - CAMI Trinidad	hospital
Centro de Especialidades	clinic
Centro de Especialistas Av. Séptima	hospital
Centro de Medicina Bioenergetica ALMHI	clinic
Centro de Rehabilitacion Integral	rehabilitation
Centro de Rehabilitacion Santa Maria	rehabilitation
Centro de Rehabilitación Oral Odontoven	dentist
Centro De Relevo	clinic
Centro de Salud	hospital
Centro de Salud	hospital
Centro de Salud Famisanar Cafam Kennedy	hospital
Centro de Salud Manuela Beltrán	hospital
Centro de Salud Oral	dentist
Centro de Salud San Mateo	hospital
Centro de Servicios Famisanar	clinic
Centro de Tratamiento e Investigación sobre Cáncer	clinic
Centro de Urgencias Argenitna	hospital
Centro Dental Bogota	dentist
Centro Dermatológico Federico Lleras Acosta	hospital
Centro Medico	dentist
Centro Medico	clinic
Centro Medico	clinic
Centro Medico 78	clinic
Centro Medico Colmédica	clinic
Centro Medico Comunitario	clinic
Centro Medico Cruz Blanca	hospital
Centro Medico Virrey Solis Soacha	clinic
Centro Medico y Odontologico - Cifuentes	hospital
Centro médico Cafam	laboratory
Centro Médico Ciudadela Colsubsidio	hospital
Centro Médico Colsubsidio	hospital
Centro Médico Colsubsidio Calle 63	hospital
Centro Médico Dali	clinic
Centro Médico de Especialistas	clinic
Centro Médico EPS Sanitas	hospital
Centro Médico IMEF	clinic
Centro Médico Plan Premium Sanitas	hospital
Centro Médico San Juan Camilo Rey	hospital
Centro Médico San Sebastián del Country	clinic
Centro Médico Uniandes	hospital
Centro Nacional de La Salud - Medlucara Ltda	clinic
Centro Odontologico	dentist
Centro Odontologico	dentist
Centro odontologico salud y oral	dentist

📊 Publishes outcomes

The story Cited · fsfb-jci

Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá publishes the clearest accreditation record of any institution in this batch: not a logo but a timeline. Its own page gives six Joint Commission International cycles — first accreditation in 2010, then reaccreditation in 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2025. That is fifteen unbroken years on a three-year cycle, each renewal named and dated.

Inference — the timeline is worth more than the mark. An accreditation badge tells a reader that a hospital passed an inspection at some unstated moment; a published cycle list tells them when, how often, and whether anything lapsed. The Cancún hospital in this same batch prints its expiry dates and they have passed; the Bogotá one prints its renewal dates and they have not. Both are being more forthcoming than a hospital that prints a logo alone.

Bogotá's altitude is the other thing that distinguishes it. At 2,640 metres the arterial oxygen a patient arrives with is lower than at sea level, and a cardiac or respiratory case flying in from the coast is being asked to acclimatise before being operated on. No page in this project's sources quantifies that, and this record does not.

How it works Trade practice · lasamericas-visa

Patients arrive by air at El Dorado and are admitted rather than accommodated: this is inpatient medicine. Colombian private hospitals bill per case and negotiate with foreign insurers where one exists. A non-resident coming for treatment whose stay is expected to run beyond ninety days needs a Colombian health visa, which is applied for through the Cancillería.

Today Cited

As of 16 September 2026 Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá states six Joint Commission International cycles, the most recent in 2025.

The particulars

iso2	Colombia (CO)
radius km	25
specialty	cardiology, oncology, transplant, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, orthopaedics
draws	Coronary artery bypass grafting, Coronary angioplasty and stent, Heart valve replacement, Kidney transplant, Bone marrow transplant, Gamma knife radiosurgery, Cataract surgery
languages	Spanish, English
region	South America
address	Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia Cited
where	4.7111, -74.0722 (city) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Cited
links	Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá — JCI accreditation timeline
confidence	high · updated 2026-09-16

Nearest in this directory

Great-circle kilometres. The distance page sorts every one of them from wherever you would fly from.

5 km — Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá Bogotá
237 km — Clínica Las Américas Medellín
238 km — Medellín Medellín
766 km — Panama City Panama City
1,246 km — Hospital Clínica Bíblica San José
1,247 km — San José, Costa Rica San José

How far it is from the places people leave

where the patient startswhere the treatment isarcs are great circles — the line a plane flies over the curve, not the straight line a flat map draws

Great-circle kilometres on a 6,371 km sphere, and that distance at 850 km/h plus 45 minutes for the ground and the climb. Arithmetic, not a timetable: it knows nothing about routing, wind or a connection. The seven nearest source markets in this directory's list.

The 7 routes on this map

From	To	Distance
Bogotá, Colombia	Bogotá	0 km · about 0h 45m in the air
Lima, Peru	Bogotá	1,892 km · about 2h 59m in the air
Mexico City, Mexico	Bogotá	3,170 km · about 4h 29m in the air
New York, United States	Bogotá	4,003 km · about 5h 28m in the air
Santiago, Chile	Bogotá	4,258 km · about 5h 46m in the air
São Paulo, Brazil	Bogotá	4,328 km · about 5h 51m in the air
Toronto, Canada	Bogotá	4,361 km · about 5h 53m in the air

What it connects to

a countryColombiaThe country whose complex hospital work concentrates here rather than in Medellín.and of this page it says: The capital cluster, where the teaching hospitals and complex cases sit.a hospitalFundación Santa Fe de BogotáThe hospital whose six dated accreditation cycles this record reads.and of this page it says: The academic hospital the Bogotá cluster is anchored on, in the north of the city on Calle 119.a clusterMedellínThe other Colombian hub — cosmetic and dental where this one is cardiac and oncological.and of this page it says: The other Colombian hub — cardiac and oncological where this one is cosmetic.an organizationJoint Commission InternationalAccredited the city's flagship hospital in 2010 and has renewed it five times since.a procedureCoronary artery bypass graftingThe kind of work that brings a patient to Bogotá rather than to a coast.a procedureKidney transplantTransplant medicine is part of what the city's hospitals sell across borders, and it is the part with the sharpest rules.an organizationDeclaration of Istanbul Custodian GroupThe framework that governs whether a foreign patient may be transplanted at all.a long oneThe accreditation questionA dated six-cycle timeline is the most useful answer this batch found to it.a stepThe visaColombia asks for a health visa where the stay runs past ninety days.

Sources

Bogotá — Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
Certificación Joint Comission International (JCI) — Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá · link (read 2026-09-16)
Visa Médica en Colombia — Clínica Las Américas Auna, Medellín · link (read 2026-09-16)

Where it came from: Cited a source named here · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Trade practice how the trade works, hedged · Inference this project's own reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.

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