Apollo Hospitals Group

Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Limited (AHEL) is recognized as the doyen “Architect of Health Care” in India. Its history of accomplishment with its unique abilities of resource management and compassionate deployment of technology and knowledge to the service of mankind justifies its recognition within Health Care Industry both in India and abroad.

Over two decades ago, our chairman Padma Bhushan Dr. Prathap C. Reddy, then practicing in the US envisioned “bringing healthcare of international standards within the reach of every individual in India.” He visualized a scenario in which healthcare delivery systems in India would be revolutionized and new standards in patient-care would be set.

His vision took shape in 1983 with the launch of India’s first corporate hospital at Chennai. Apollo Hospitals, Chennai was an instant success and propelled Apollo groups to set healthcare paradigms all over the Indian sub-continent. Today AHEL has emerged as the single largest private hospital group in Asia and is the undisputed leader in the delivery of health care of International standards within the Asian Subcontinent. It commands the leadership by providing health care to several nations in the Asian Subcontinent through 26 hospitals, 3800 hospital beds beds expanding to 47 hospitals and over 7000 hospital beds by the year 2003.

Achievements:

The Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. (AHEL) evolved with the merger of IHCL (Indian Hospitals Corporation Ltd.), DHCL (Deccan Hospitals Corporation Ltd.) and OSHL (Om Sindoor Hotels Ltd.). The enterprise today controls the widespread activities of the Group.

It has the largest and most sophisticated sleep laboratory in the World. It has pioneered orthopedic procedures like total hip replacement and Illizarove procedure.

In the delivery of Tertiary Care, AHEL stands in the subcontinent as a class of its own. Its specialists have performed 200,000 major surgeries including cardio-thoracic, neurological, cancer, gastro-intestinal orthopedic, renal, obstetrical, ENT, ophthalmological, dental, laser, plastic, cosmetic, minimally invasive, and microvascular procedures with success rate par with international standards. It has performed over 30,000 cardiac surgeries with a 98.5% success rate. It owns a 20 bed high efficiency 20 bed Bone Marrow transplant unit, largest of its kind in Asia. It has successfully performed over 100 bone marrow transplants with a success rate of 80%. AHEL takes pride in having done over 3000 renal transplants with 95% success rate. Its cardiac laboratories have successfully performed over 1,00,000 angiograms, 9000 angioplasties, 3500 mitral balloon vavuloplasties, and 2500 coronary stents.

When necessary, it has performed difficult procedures to serve the customer. It has successfully performed pacemaker implantation in a 97-year-old patient and has performed cardiac surgery in a 4-day-old baby.

Apollo Hospitals group has been the:

• first to establish health insurance company

• first group to introduce preventive health care

• first to perform liver, multi-organ, cord blood transplants

• first to introduce new techniques of coronary angioplasty

• first to perform sterio-tactic radiotherapy and Radio-surgery (for brain tumors) in the country

• first health care facility in India to be awarded ISO 9002.

Group activities

Apollo Hospitals Group has a network of hospitals spread across the country. The group has a "project consulting team" that is often called the nucleus of Apollo hospitals and is India's only hospital management consulting firm. The project consultancy division, besides commissioning of projects also provides management solutions for the hospitals

After the first tertiary care hospital at Chennai, the group expanded its activities by setting up a super-speciality center at Hyderabad, 650-bed multi-speciality hospital at Delhi, a super speciality center at Madurai, a heart and kidney center at Vishakapatnam and a secondary care center at Aragonda in Chittoor district.

The Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals at Delhi is a jewel in Apollo's crown. It is the largest corporate hospital outside the United States. The group has a Heartscan Center at Dubai. Exclusive Cancer care hospitals have been set up at Chennai and Hyderabad. The group manages hospitals at Pune, Coimbatore and Erode and has lifestyle clinics at Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi and Mumbai.

The Apollo Group's plans for the future include a hospital at Narhenpita in Srilanka, a hospital in Ahmedabad, Muscat and Katmandu.

A complete health industry

Today, Apollo Group of Hospitals is a complete health industry in itself with group companies such as Indian Hospitals Corporation Ltd. (Hospital consultancy and management division), Citadel Ltd. (Software Development Company), Family Health Plan (Health Insurance organisation), MedNet (IT connectivity program especially for general practitioners in the country), Global Informed (A company involved in health content creation) and Apollo Educational & Research Foundation (Health and Clinical Research), Apollolife.com (Apollo Health Street Ltd) and now medvarsity.com (Medvarsity Online Limited).

Its strategy\mission

AHEL’s strategy has always been: “To share our knowledge and expertise in managing existing and evolving health care institutions in tune with international standards."

In order to accomplish the mission, Apollo has a wide network of hospitals and clinics not only across the country but also across the sub-continent.

Hospitals

Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Pune, Chenganur, Coimbatore, Jaipur, Madurai, Anantpur, Nellore, Kurnool, Bhopal, Ranchi, Bilaspur and Bacheli.

Clinics

Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur and Chennai.

Worldwide

Muscat, Dubai, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Dhaka.

Human resources

The strength of Apollo Hospitals Group is a team of dedicated individuals working in tandem to provide quality healthcare services to our patients. The group employs over 5000 employees including doctors, nurses, paramedical and administrative staff.

Medical Staff

The medical team in the hospital comprises of consultants, registrars, and resident doctors. The various Apollo group hospitals have 1000 postgraduate consultant doctors in various super specialities with about 1500 doctors on roll including specialists in Radiology and Laboratory sciences.

Nursing Staff

Nurses in the wards, Intensive care units and Operation Theatres constitute the nursing staff in the hospital. The group employs about 3500 nurses, which includes specially trained nurses in intensive care units and organ transplant units.

New initiatives

In order to bring health care in India, to world-class standards Apollo Hospitals has taken many initiatives, by integrating Information Technology, Internet–based technology, and Telecommunications with Home health care and retailing.

KeiMed.com

Apollo Life.com

Medvarsity.com

Conclusion

With such rich history, intellectual property, fiscal management capabilities and unparalleled innovative expertise in the delivery of health AHEL has the largest Hospitals Projects and Consultancy Division in India. It has unmatchable expertise in designing, establishing and medical facilities from conception to operation.

AHEL has commissioned over 25 hospital projects and more than 20 projects are under different stages of implementation. We dedicate ourselves to bringing health care of international standards within the reach of every individual. We design and deliver health care. We are the Architect of health care. Come and participate with us in the noble mission of better health for all.

Its success lies in its constant endeavor to upgrade and set new standards in healthcare while optimizing on the available resources. Through growth and change, Apollo remains committed to its motto: medical excellence with human touch.