Fortis Healthcare Limited was incorporated in 1996. It is now the fastest growing and India 's second largest healthcare provider. The company was founded by the visionary business leader, Late Dr. Parvinder Singh, the architect of Ranbaxy Laboratories.
Fortis is a manifestation of Dr. Singh 's ideology “to create a world-class integrated healthcare delivery system in India, entailing the finest medical skills combined with compassionate patient care”. The company 's vision is to be a globally respected healthcare organization known for clinical excellence and distinctive patient care. The company 's mission to deliver quality healthcare focuses on drivers such as clinical excellence, technology, research and patient care.
Starting with its first hospital which opened in 2001, Fortis Healthcare Ltd. now is a network of 45 hospitals with the capacity to increase inpatient beds to ~6600 beds. These hospitals include multi specialty hospitals as well as super-specialty centres providing comprehensive tertiary and quaternary healthcare to patients across specialties such as cardiac care, orthopedics, neurosciences, oncology, renal care, gastroenterology, mother and child care .
Fortis has been rapidly growing through a combination of acquisitions, greenfields, brownfields and management contracts. The company 's employee strength across is over 10000.
Operating Model
Fortis operates on a hub and spoke model to provide Super Specialty, Multi Specialty and Tertiary level medical care. Hubs are the super specialty hospitals and spokes are the multi specialty centres. Patients who have the need are referred to these hubs from the multi specialty facilities in the region. By embracing this system the patient benefits from the many available network facilities.
Quality Focus
Fortis Healthcare has been at the forefront of providing quality healthcare services and has raised the bar of quality standards in the country. The
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