Apollo Hospitals

APOLLO HOSPITALS
Type Public
Industry Healthcare
Founded 1983
Headquarters Chennai, India
Key people Prathap C. Reddy, Founder and Chairman
Preetha Reddy, Managing Director
Revenue INR 9.566 billion
Employees 10,000 +
Website www.apollohospitals.com

Apollo Hospitals is a major hospital chain based in Chennai, India. It was founded by Dr. Prathap C. Reddy in 1983. Apollo is private healthcare provider in Asia with hospitals in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ghana, Nigeria, Republic of Mauritius, Qatar,Oman and Kuwait.

Several of the group's hospitals have been among the first in India to receive a form of international healthcare accreditation, in their case by the American-based Joint Commission International (JCI).[1] The Hyderabad hospital was the first in the world, outside the US, to receive JCI's Disease- or Condition-Specific Care (DCSC) Certification in addition to general accreditation when it received this for its Acute Stroke treatment in 2006.[2] However, they have not as yet acquired international accreditation from any hospital accreditation group from outside of the USA.

The group has developed services in telemedicine, after starting a pilot project in 2000 in Dr Pratap C. Reddy's own home village.[3] It is now the largest telemedicine provider in India with 71 centres. Apollo Hospital and DHAN to provide affordable rural healthcare, Philips press notice, July 08, 2005 accessed at [4] Nov 11, 2006</ref>

Another venture of the group is Apollo Health Street, a global healthcare services company (Apollo Health Street). It offers business process outsourcing (BPO)and IT services internationally, operating out of three countries - the United States, the United Kingdom, and four centres in India (Hyderabad, New Delhi, Chennai and Coimbatore). The success of Apollo Hospitals has made it the topic for Harvard Business School case study.[4]

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Honours

The Apollo Hospital was honoured by having a stamp created in their name on 2 November 2009[5]

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References

  1. ^ Accreditation for 3 Apollo Hospital branches, The Hindu, May 10, 2006 accessed at [1] Nov 11, 2006
  2. ^ Make medicare affordable, says Rosaiah, The Hindu, September 25, 2006 accessed at [2] Nov 11, 2006
  3. ^ Telemedicine puts AP village on health map, The Indian Express, September 7, 2005 accessed at [3] Nov 11, 2006
  4. ^ Martha Lagace (2007-12-17). "The Rise of Medical Tourism — HBS Working Knowledge". Hbswk.hbs.edu. http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5814.html. Retrieved 2011-09-16. 
  5. ^ "Welcome to the Indiapost Web Site". Indiapost.gov.in. http://www.indiapost.gov.in/Netscape/Stamps2009.html#1. Retrieved 2011-09-16. 

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