In 2001, Dr. Devi Shetty, Chairman Narayana Health stepped in to make a difference to the Indian healthcare industry. He put into place a dream hospital project called Narayana Hrudayalaya that started modestly with 300 beds in Bangalore and went on to become a Health City. In a decade’s time it grew exponentially with multiple location presence, recording a 5700 beds healthcare conglomerate by end 2012. From truly humble beginnings, the hospital currently caters to 80,000 patients per month and performs 3500 surgeries. It is one man’s passion that ignited this spark.
Besides Bangalore Narayana Health has hospitals in Hubli, Dharwad, Kolar, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Jamshedpur, Raipur, Jaipur and Ahmedabad in addition to international subsidiaries in Malaysia and Cayman Islands. Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Bangalore and Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Jaipur are JCI accredited.
Narayana Health (Narayana Hrudayalaya) founded by Dr. Devi Shetty has its flagship hospital in Bangalore at NH Health City, which has India’s largest Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Center, Dialysis units with tertiary care expertise in Liver, Kidney and Heart transplants and one of the world’s largest heart hospital having performed the largest number of successful paediatric heart surgeries in the world. The group has one of the largest telemedicine network.
Narayana Health (Narayana Hrudayalaya) founded by Dr. Devi Shetty has its flagship hospital in Bangalore at NH Health City, which has India’s largest Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Center, Dialysis units with tertiary care expertise in Liver, Kidney and Heart transplants and one of the world’s largest heart hospital having performed the largest number of successful paediatric heart surgeries in the world. The group has one of the largest telemedicine network.
Milestone Achievements
- Conducts 40 heart surgeries every day
- Expertise in liver transplants on babies less than 10 kg weight with 95% success rate
- First heart hospital in Asia to Implant an artificial heart
- Performed combined kidney and pancreas transplant Offers formal training program for pediatric cardiac surgery
- Narayana Foundation conducts 61 training programmes and is short-listed by the University Grant Commission (UGC) for the status of a Deemed University
- Thrombosis Research Institute, Bangalore a division of Narayana Health is working towards discovering a vaccine to prevent heart attack. The Institute has come up with markers to diagnose heart disease early.
Awards
Some of the most distinguished ones are:
- Best Hospital by CNBC & ICIC Lombard, 2010
- India Shining Star CSR Award for exceptional CSR work done, 2011
- Ranked 36th among “World’s 50 most innovative companies” by Fast Companies 2012
- Frost & Sullivan India Healthcare Excellence Awards 2012 – Healthcare Service Provider Company of the Year ands
- FICCI Health Care Excellence Award 2012 for “Addressing Industry Issues” – 2012
- Ranked #1 in ‘The Top Ten Innovative Companies in India’ by “Fast Company“
- Ranked #2 in ‘The World’s Top 10 Innovative Companies in the Healthcare Industry’ by “Fast Company”
- Rated in the Top 5 Cardiac Hospitals in the country by “THE WEEK”
- 7th hospital in the country and first in the state for accreditation by “National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH)”
