Yashoda hospital

Being the largest healthcare group in Andhra Pradesh and having catered to over 20,00,000 patients does not stop Yashoda Group of Hospitals from charting a Rs. 150-crore growth chart, reveals Jayata Sharma

Beds: 1,100, Doctors: 600, Paramedics: 500, Nurses: 1,100, Ambulances 10—wondering what is being talked about? Well, it’s the gigantic Yashoda Group of Hospitals, the largest healthcare group in Andhra Pradesh (AP) with three branches!
Having the largest number of beds and staff is not an easy task to achieve. But Yashoda has, in 20 years, mastered the skills of good branding and better care at affordable prices.  Yashoda’s up-to-date emergency service facilities add up to the basket of its achievements.
A right-on-hand proof is the roof top helipad (the first in this region) at Yashoda Hospital, Secunderabad, which enables to shift patients from distant areas to this centre.
The Group has three hospitals, in Secunderabad (500 beds), Malakpet (300) and Somajiguda (300) with a combined capacity of 1,100 beds. One might think, why so much concentration only in AP? Well, it is because the group wants to create a strong foothold on home ground first and then move on to other pastures. 
During the last 12 years the group has received over 20,00,000 patients from all parts of AP and surrounding states and is known as one of the finest hospitals in the state to perform affordable liver, organ transplants.

The start
Dr. G Surender Rao, the present Executive Director of Yashoda Group of Hospitals, started Yashoda as a small facility in Somajiguda. Prior to this, during his stint of eight years in Iran, Dr. Rao was exposed to management of large hospitals and had the opportunity to work with international medical experts. After this, he successfully completed his paediatrics postgraduation and started his own private practice at Dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad. Within a short span, his practice picked up very well and he was a leading paediatrician in Hyderabad. Encouraged by the success in the profession, he planned his first venture_Yashoda Hospital at Somajiguda, Hyderabad in 1989.
In the 90s, the 200-bed Somajiguda hospital saw a significant growth. Encouraged by the success Dr. Rao started the second facility. His brother Dr. G Ravender Rao, who is currently the managing director of the group, was a pivotal support all the time, playing a vital role in every step of expansion. After that came the Malakpet set-up in 1995, a super-speciality hospital, followed by a third facility at Secunderabad in 2003. The Secunderabad hospital is considered the largest in AP. The efforts of the two brothers paid off when Yashoda Hospital became the first Hospital Group in AP to have 1,000 beds, 450 doctors and 60 specialities!
From 25 doctors and 80 nurses, today it has employs more than 450 doctors, 1,500 nurses and a total of 4,000 staff comprising paramedical and other support staff. They have slowly and swiftly grown from having a single CT Scan to having one of the world’s few digital flat panel cath labs. According to Dr. Rao, it is vital that each of the Group Hospitals be an independent facility. Hence, every hospital set-up of Yashoda is equipped with every big and small equipment to be independently functional. To prove their point furthermore, the group has allotted a cath lab, an MRI, a CT scan etc at all three hospitals.
Little wonder then that they treat the maximum number of patients in the city. Yashoda Group of Hospitals admits and cures over three lakh patients each year. In fact, Yashoda Hospital, Secunderabad has been rated as Andhra Pradesh’s Best