Every healthcare institution begins with an aspiration, whether to reach more patients, to care for them better or to meet a higher standard. AAA HealthCare began in the same way. In 2014, Dr. Mecklai, who had spent years leading hospitals, started the practice with a team of three and an ambition of his own: to help others plan, build and run healthcare institutions well. He stepped away from running hospitals to advise on them, bringing the judgement of someone who has carried the daily responsibility of a hospital himself.

Assisting is what we have done since. We work alongside organisations as they plan, commission, staff and improve their hospitals, drawing on the experience of having run them. The practice has grown from those first three people into a multidisciplinary team, and from hospital planning into health systems, workforce training, quality accreditation and medical value travel.

In the end, what matters is what is achieved: a hospital that opens well, a system that works, a team that is ready, a standard that is kept and a patient who is looked after. We measure our work by those outcomes, and by the patients and families who feel them.