The Mar Augustine Kandathil Memorial Lisie Hospital is a hospital near
Kaloor
Kaloor is a downtown region in the city of Kochi, in the state of Kerala
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Kochi
Kochi (), also known as Cochin ( ) ( the official name until 1996) is a major port city on the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea, which is a part of the Arabian Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of K ...
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. It was founded in memory of
Mar Augustine Kandathil
Augustine Kandathil (25 August 1874 – 10 January 1956) was Metropolitan and head of the Syro-Malabar Church
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, shortly after his demise, according to his original vision and plans, in 1957, as a token of his devotion to
St. Thérèse de Lisieux. It is managed by the
Archdiocese of Ernakulam
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Pennsylvaniat is a tertiary referral hospital and one of the largest in Cochin. The Lisie Heart Institute is a major interventional Cardiology and Cardiothoracic centre. It performed nearly 4000 interventional cardiac procedures and cardiac surgeries in 2006. Their team of doctors was reconstituted in 2008 with the joining of
Jose Chacko Periappuram
Jose Chacko Periappuram (born 28 April 1958) is an Indian cardiac surgeon and medical writer who performed the first successful heart transplant in the state of Kerala, India, as well as the first successful heart retransplant in the countr ...
as the Head of Cardiac Surgery and Jacob Abraham as the head of Cardiac Anaesthesia. The present team was instrumental in performing the first total arterial bypass surgery on a beating heart and heart transplantation under Dr. Jose Chacko in the state of Kerala.
Facilities
The hospital have departments including Anaesthesia, Cardiac Anaesthesiology, Cardio Thoracic Surgery, Cardiology, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Dentistry, Dermatology, Diabetology, Emergency Medicine, ENT, Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, Urology, Radiology, Medical Social Work, Oncology, Pain & Palliative, Pathology, Gastrointestinal Surgery and Ophthalmology. Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology is one of the largest Cardio thoracic practices in South India. The general medicine department handles 50,000 outpatients and 5,000 inpatients every year.
Lisie Medical and Educational institutions
Educational institutions within the hospital include;
*Lisie College Of Nursing
*Lisie School Of Nursing
*Lisie College Of Pharmacy
*Lisie School Of Paramedical Science
*Lisie College Of Allied Health Sciences.
Lisie Heart Institute
The Lisie Heart Institute is a tertiary care Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Unit at the Mar Augustine Memorial Lisie Hospital. The Heart Institute is one of the leading centres for Interventional cardiology and Cardiac surgery in the state of Kerala. It was set up in 2002 and has since then performed more than 14,000 interventional procedures and 3800 Cardiac surgeries until 2007.
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History of its origins
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Hospital buildings completed in 1957
Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly
Hospitals in Kochi
Hospitals established in 1957
1957 establishments in Kerala