Burjeel Holdings has launched BEACON, the Burjeel Emergency and Acute Care Operational Network, to create a coordinated emergency and acute care model across its Abu Dhabi facilities.

Launched simultaneously at Burjeel Hospital Abu Dhabi and Burjeel Medical City, BEACON connects emergency departments, critical care, specialist services and interfacility transfers through shared clinical pathways and coordinated decision-making.

“Emergency care does not begin or end at the doors of the Emergency Department. A patient may need prehospital support, rapid diagnostics, specialist intervention, critical care, or transfer to another facility, often within a very short period of time. BEACON gives our teams a common framework to coordinate these decisions and act as one clinical network. This helps us bring the appropriate expertise to the patient earlier and maintain a consistent standard throughout the care journey,” said Dr. Malcolm Borg, Consultant and Group Head, Emergency Medicine.

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The framework aims to ensure patients are rapidly connected to the appropriate expertise and level of care, from emergency assessment and diagnostics to specialist intervention, critical care, recovery and follow-up.

BEACON is built around four key areas: acute care access, emergency department quality and value, hospital-wide integration, and interfacility transfer and prehospital coordination. It also supports standardized clinical protocols, subspecialty routing and technology-enabled clinical decision support.

“When a patient faces an emergency, the strength of our entire healthcare network should be available to them. BEACON brings our people, expertise, infrastructure, and capabilities together around the patient, enabling our teams to respond in a more coordinated and consistent way. Our focus is to connect every patient to the right expertise and level of care when it matters most, while maintaining the highest standards of quality, safety, and patient experience,” said Dr. Shamsheer Vayalil, Chairman and CEO of Burjeel Holdings.

The network will support standardized pathways for time-sensitive conditions including cardiac emergencies, stroke, sepsis, trauma, paediatric emergencies and acute oncology, while enabling access to highly specialized care across facilities.

Technology will provide greater visibility of clinical capacity and specialist availability, while predictive and decision-support tools will help identify high-risk patients and support acute-care navigation.

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