Seventh-day Adventist Hospital, Ottapalam

Seventh-day Adventist Hospital, Ottapalam
Medical Trust of Seventh-day Adventists
Geography
Location	Ottapalam, Palakkad, Kerala, India
Coordinates	10.77°N 76.38°E / 10.77; 76.38 ⧼validator-fatal-error⧽
Organisation
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Hospital type	General
Network	Seventh-day Adventist Hospitals
Services
Beds	160
History
Founded	1969
Links
Website	osdah.in

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The Seventh-day Adventist Hospital, Ottapalam is a charitable mission hospital in Ottapalam in the Palakkad district of Kerala, India. It was established in 1969 as a part of a health care unit of the worldwide organisation - the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The hospital lies adjacent to the Palakkad - Shoranur highway.

History

The Adventist Church has formed the trust Council of Seventh-day Adventist Hospitals (COSDAH) and later Medical Trust of Seventh-day Adventists, which is a registered body under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860, Reg. No.516 of 1999, under which the hospitals are embedded. The trust operates on a no-loss no-profit basis.

The medical trust operates 11 hospitals across the country, under the umbrella of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination; these hospitals are affiliated to institutions like Loma Linda Medical Center. Four of the hospitals have nursing schools attached. The schools are being upgraded to the collegiate level.

The hospital role in serving the local community covers part of the district of Palakkad. The hospital serves a population of about 3,000,000. There are 210 beds. The hospital owns 33 acres of land.

The hospital had many developments under the leadership of Pr. P A Varghese as Business Manager (2006-2012)

• College of Nursing
• Renovated Operation Theater
• Renovated ICU
• New Casulality Block
• New Mourtury Block
• Renovated Private Rooms
• New Echo and TMT machines
• New Digital X Ray Machine
• Renovated Quarters
• Improved Laundry
• New College Buses
• New Hostel Block

Events

The hospital founded the Golden Jubilee Marathon, which is run on the palakkad-ponnani highway.

Services

Operation theater

Intensive Care Unit

The hospital offers the following services:

• General Medicine
• General Surgery
• Obstetrics & Gynaecology
• Paediatrics
• Orthopaedics
• Community Health
• Anesthesiology
• Dental
• Ophthalmology
• Urology

College of Nursing

The SDA School of nursing has been in operation since 2001 with the accreditation of Kerala Nurses and Midwives Council and the Indian Nursing Council. In order to meet the health demands of the society and to upgrade the training of the students, the school of nursing was upgraded to a College of Nursing offering a bachelor's degree in nursing, affiliated to the Kerala University of Health sciences. The students graduating are well trained and well placed both in India and abroad.The College Was started under the leadership of Dr. Rajkumar ,Medical Director and Pr. P A Varghese ,Business Manager.

See also

Other articles of the topic India : Josh (2000 film), Serafim Kalliadasis, Loknayak Jai Prakash Institute Of Technology, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal
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• List of Seventh-day Adventist hospitals
• List of hospitals in India

External links

• Adventist Health India at the Wayback Machine (archived 2013-04-06)
• Seventh Day Adventist Nursing College at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-07-17)

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