Many medial tourism professionals have felt a noticeable change in climate within the industry as of late. It proves refreshing to witness transparency and ethical standards being cemented within the facilitator space at optimum levels, which has been particularly visible at a premiere facilitation company, 360 Global Health.

Kelly Jenkins, who founded 360 Global Health April 1st, is no rookie in the game. In fact, her track record includes 17 years of industry experience working with some medical forerunners such as Kronos and Cigna Health Care. And of all the services 360 Global Health provides – orthopedic, gynecological, and cardiology to name a few – customer service stands atop their list of attributes.

It should be recognized the company’s employees forfeited their paychecks earlier this year in a grand gesture to ensure the continuation of surrogacy services for several former clients. A selfless notion indeed; the question of why still arises.

Truth is, 360 was birthed as a new entity following a stream of alleged illegitimate activities apparently at the hands of Los Angeles facilitator Planet Hospital.

INDUSTRY THOUGHT LEADER?

Now according to their website, Planet Hospital appears as a top-notch facilitator, self-proclaimed as the first company in the business, and insists co-founder Rudy Rupak, aka Rudy Acharya “has become the industry thought leader in medical tourism.”

However, Jenkins, a former COO for Planet Hospital, witnessed a series of unethical operations first-hand during her nine months service. Initially working in an operations consultant capacity, little time lapsed following her June 2010 hire before concerns surfaced.

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