Ruby Hall Clinic is a hospital in the city of

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, established in 1959. It is a 750-bed

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with 2,450 dedicated staffers, 300 consultants, 650 panel

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s, and 1,500

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al staff. It was accredited by National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH). It is a recognized Post Graduate Teaching Hospital for students of

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, and College of Physicians & Surgeons of Mumbai. Dr. P.K. Grant is the Managing Trustee and Chief Cardiologist of Ruby Hall Clinic.

History

Ruby Hall Clinic was established in 1959 by Dr. K. B. Grant. In 1966, Ruby Hall Clinic was converted from a private institution owned by Dr. Grant to a public charitable trust named Poona Medical Foundation. It was later converted to the Grant Medical Foundation in 2000, of which Dr. Grant was the chairman and managing trustee. In 2012, the clinic collaborated with the Kalyani Group to launch a special institute for prostate cancer research.

Facilities

Ruby Hall Clinic includes the following medical sectors:

Cardiology Cardiology () is the study of the heart. Cardiology is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the cardiovascular system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery di ...

, Cardiac Surgery,

Neurology Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix wikt:-logia, -logia, "study of") is the branch of specialty (medicine) , medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous syst ...

Nuclear Medicine Nuclear medicine (nuclear radiology, nucleology), is a medical specialty involving the application of radioactivity, radioactive substances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Nuclear imaging is, in a sense, ''radiology done inside out'', ...

Department (Digital PET-CT & SPECT CT), Diagnostic Center,

Intensive Care Unit An intensive care unit (ICU), also known as an intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit (ITU) or critical care unit (CCU), is a special department of a hospital or health care facility that provides intensive care medicine. An inten ...

s, a

Blood Bank A blood bank is a center where blood gathered as a result of blood donation is stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusion. The term "blood bank" typically refers to a department of a hospital usually within a clinical pathology labora ...

and

Cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving Cell growth#Disorders, abnormal cell growth with the potential to Invasion (cancer), invade or Metastasis, spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Po ...

Unit. In 1999, the hospital ranked first in India for having the largest number of ICU beds (76). The number of ICU beds available has increased to 130.

References

External links

Official site
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