St. Isabels Hospital

Description

St Isabels hospital is today a 300 bedded acutecare tertiary hospital with 21 clinical departments and six paramedical departments The hospital runs a number of specialist outpatient clinics and specialised service centres a medical records office a health screening centre pharmacies and other facilities providing a comprehensive array of medical services

As a teaching hospital St Isabels Hospital provides medical education at postgraduate level in some specialties It also conducts medical seminars Continuing Medical Education programmes and medicinerelated events for doctors in practice to update their knowledge

The management of this hospital is committed to provide state of the art nursing care and nursing education This hospital has a committed and dedicated team of Sisters and Staff running The School College of Nursing training young girls to excel in their profession

History

Situated in four acres behind Luz Church Mylapore St Isabels Hospital an ambitious venture undertaken in March 1949 by the Congregation FHSIC founded in Portugal in 1871 dedicating itself to the service of the poor the sick the abandoned and the needy His excellency The Most Rev Don Manuel de Medeiros Guereiro Bishop of Mylapore blessed the foundation stone which Mr AB Shetty Minister for Public Health laid with a silver trowel It has grown from a tiny mustard seed into a wide sheltering tree winning the appreciation of the public of Chennai