Indraprastha Apollo Hospital is an Indian hospital owned by

Apollo Hospitals Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited is an Indian multinational healthcare group headquartered in Chennai. It is the largest for-profit private hospital network in India, with a network of 71 owned and managed hospitals. Along with the eponym ...

group, India's largest healthcare chain. Established in 1995, it is the third super specialty

tertiary care hospital A tertiary referral hospital (also called a tertiary hospital, tertiary referral center, tertiary care center, or tertiary center) is a hospital that provides tertiary care, which is a level of health care obtained from specialists in a large hos ...

set by the Apollo Hospitals Group, jointly with the

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. It is a 695-bed hospital, with the provision for expansion to 1000 beds in future. The hospital is spread over 15 acres, and has a built-up area of 600,000 square feet.

History

Indraprastha Apollo Hospital was accredited by

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International (JCI) USA as the first internationally accredited Hospital in

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in 2005 and

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. In 2011, the hospital got re-accredited by JCI for a fourth time consequently, making it the first hospital in India to do so.

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