Yashoda gets National Healthcare award
Sri. G. Ravinder Rao, the Chairman of Yashoda Hospitals Group was presented with HEAL Foundation’s National Award for Excellence in Innovative Hospital Administration. Dr C Laxma Reddy, the Health Minister of Telangana has presented the award to him at 5th National Health Writers and Editors Convention held today at Radisson Hitec City, Hyderabad. HEAL Foundation is the largest network of Health Writers across India & SAARC countries. In an endeavour to present to the nation its finest healthcare providers, the foundation has initiated the Healthcare Awards at the national level for the healthcare industry.
HEAL Foundation in the citation presented to Sri.G. Ravinder Rao said: ‘We recognize your instrumental role in bringing about strong administrative reforms in the health-care delivery sector through your innovative policies at Yashoda Hospital which are seen as exemplary and inspiration worthy by many in the industry. Your experience in the domain has led to an in-depth insight into the health-care delivery sector which is among the key reasons for Yashoda Hospital's growth and prosperity.’
The HEAL Foundation’s 5th National Health Writers and Editors Convention is attended by health and medical science writers from all over India.The overarching objective of the convention is to initiate a dialogue among stakeholders who play an imperative role in shaping the opinion and perception among general masses. The practical goal is to encourage people to contribute positively in spreading knowledge about various healthcare issues thus leading to behavioural change.
ABOUT YASHODA GROUP OF HOSPITALS:
Sri Gorukanti Ravinder Rao, well - known industrialist and technocrat with over three and a half decades of experience has founded Yashoda Group of Hospitals. A great visionary, as he is, Sri Ravinder Rao joined hands with his younger brothers Dr G. Surender Rao(G.S.Rao), an internationally trained paediatrician and Mr G. Devender Rao(G.D.Rao) an experienced CA & financial expert to establish Yashoda Group of Hospitals in 1989. Presently he heads the Group and designs strict internal controls in running Yashoda Hospitals efficiently. His engineering and entrepreneur skills helped in the growth of the Group and established it as a national player in the healthcare sector in India.
Yashoda Hospitals Group has 3 independent hospitals with a combined bed strength over 2000 beds. It has exclusive Heart - Kidney - Liver -Lung transplant and cancer institutes. Yashoda Hospitals offer sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care in virtually every speciality and it’s sub-speciality of medicine and surgery. Yashoda Hospitals Group has 700 dedicated Specialist doctors from 72 Medical specialties. These three hospitals had a total of above 25,00,000 patients admissions in the last 5 years and performed 1,00,000 major surgeries, 2,00,000 surgical procedures on average during these years.