Hospitals, healthcare

MEDANTA – THE MEDICITY

Medanta – The Medicity is one of India’s largest multi-super specialty institutes located in Gurgaon, a bustling town in the National Capital Region. Founded by eminent cardiac surgeon, Dr. Naresh Trehan, the institution has been envisioned with the aim of bringing to India the highest standards of medical care along with clinical research, education and training. Medanta is governed under the guiding principles of providing medical services to patients with care, compassion, commitment. Spread across 43 acres, the institute includes a research center, medical and nursing school. It has 1250 beds and over 350 critical care beds with 45 operation theatres catering to over 20 specialties.

APOLLO HOSPITALS

Apollo Hospitals is widely recognized as the pioneer of private healthcare in India, and was the country’s first corporate hospital. The Apollo Hospitals Group, which started as a 150-bed hospital and today, operates 9200 beds across 64 hospitals. A forerunner in integrated healthcare, Apollo has a robust presence across the healthcare spectrum. The Group has emerged as the foremost integrated healthcare provider in Asia, with mature group companies that specialize in insurance, pharmacy, consultancy, clinics and many such key touch points of the ecosystem. The Apollo Group has touched the lives of over 45 million patients, from 121 countries.

DR. BATRA’S

Founded in 1982 by Dr. Mukesh Batra, Dr. Batra’s Positive Health Clinic has come a long way today with 224 clinics spread across 122 cities in India, Dubai and UK. It provides state-of-the-art services to more than half a million people from all over the world, with the numbers growing steadily. Dr. Batra – the name that represents excellence and commitment to the health services sector – is the pioneering force that aims at building value for patients, employees, and partners and for the society, at large. The fundamental business strategy of Dr. Batra’s is to innovate, to excel at whatever is created and to build a brand that constantly strives for something still better.

ARAVIND EYE HOSPITAL

The problem of avoidable blindness rapidly escalating remained a major cause of concern in the Indian healthcare scenario. In a developing country the government alone cannot meet the health needs of all owing to a number of challenges like growing population, inadequate infrastructure, low per capita income, aging population, diseases in epidemic proportions and illiteracy. Realizing this, Dr. Venkataswamy wished to establish an alternate health care model that could supplement the efforts of the government and also be self-supporting. Following his retirement at age 58 in 1976, he established the GOVEL Trust under which Aravind Eye Hospitals were founded.

156FORTIS HEALTHCARE LIMITED

Fortis Healthcare Limited is a leading integrated healthcare delivery service provider in India. The healthcare verticals of the company primarily comprise hospitals, diagnostics and day care specialty facilities. The company operates its healthcare delivery services in India, Dubai, Mauritius and Sri Lanka with 54 healthcare facilities (including projects under development), approximately 10,000 potential beds and 260 diagnostic centres. In a global study of the 30 most technologically advanced hospitals in the world, its flagship, the Fortis Memorial Research Institute’ (FMRI), was ranked No.2, by ‘topmastersinhealthcare.com, and placed ahead of many other outstanding medical institutions in the world.

MANIPAL GROUP

Manipal Healthcare manages 11 hospitals, including 8 teaching hospitals. Asia’s largest healthcare management group has multi-stream facilities covering the entire spectrum from secondary to super-specialty care and rural maternity and child welfare homes. The Manipal Healthcare Group now has internationally-renowned hospitals in its ambit, such as the Manipal Hospital in Bangalore and Kasturba Hospital in Manipal. Manipal Group pioneered the introduction of modern technologies in several areas of medicine and treatment. The Group strives to meet expectations and endeavours to surpass them and has a guiding philosophy that all its actions will be inspired by life.

SANKARA NETRALAYA

It was in 1976 when addressing a group of doctors, His Holiness Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, the Sankaracharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam spoke of the need to create a hospital with a missionary spirit. On the command of His Holiness, Dr. Sengamedu Srinivasa Badrinath, along with a group of philanthropists founded a charitable not-for-profit eye hospital, one that would bring world-class eye care to the people of India, that would adopt a single standard of care for all, rich or poor. Today, Sankara Netralaya has spread its concept of care to distant parts of this country.

MAX HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE (MAX SUPER SPECIALITY)

Max Healthcare Institute is a healthcare institute based in New Delhi, India. The Institute is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Max India Limited. Established in 1985, Max India Limited is a Public Limited company listed in the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India with more than 37,000 shareholders. At Max Super Speciality Hospitals, it is their level of service and eye for detailing in everything that they do, that truly sets them apart and makes them the care provider of choice for millions of patients. The institute operates eleven centers in Delhi, NCR and neighbouring Punjab region, providing health care services in more than 30 disciplines.

157GLOBAL HOSPITALS

Global Hospitals Group, India’s most renowned healthcare services provider offering better care, cutting-edge research and advanced education to caregivers, is one of the country’s fast growing chains of multi super specialty tertiary care hospitals offering healthcare services of international standards. A 2000-bed multi super specialty tertiary care facility spread across Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore and Mumbai, Global Hospitals is a pioneer in multi-organ transplants including kidneys, liver, heart and lung. With a vision to be a world-class healthcare provider turning distant possibilities into realities, Global Hospitals utilizes a strong combination of clinical expertise, advanced technology, world-class infrastructure and facilities is to deliver high quality medical services of international standards.

NARAYANA HEALTH

Narayana Health (formerly known as Narayana Hrudyalaya) is a multi-specialty hospital chain in India, headquartered in Bengaluru. The company won the “Good Company” award for its quality, affordability and scale. The business model of Narayana Health became a Global Healthcare and Harvard Business School case study. The hospital chain is among the largest telemedicine networks in the world. The group was founded in 2000 by Dr. Devi Shetty under the guidance of the Asian Heart Foundation. Today, it has 31 hospitals in 19 locations. In 2013, Narayana Hrudayalaya Pvt. Ltd. changed its brand name to Narayana Health.

VLCC (VANDANA LUTHRA CURLS AND CURVES)

Guided by their motto – ‘Transforming Lives’ – the VLCC Group seeks to spark self-transformation, spread happiness and imbibe every individual with wellness for life. Founded by Mrs Vandana Luthra in 1989, these three mantras stand tall as the company’s pillars of strength. Till today, they remain the firm foundation of VLCC’s continuing success story. VLCC is widely recognized for its weight loss solutions and therapeutic approach to beauty treatments. VLCC are among the largest scale and breadth of operations within the beauty and wellness services industry in India, serving consumers across 310 locations in 135 cities and across 11 countries in South Asia, South East Asia, the GCC Region and East Africa.