Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited is an Indian multinational healthcare group headquartered in

Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...

. Along with the eponymous hospital chain, the company also operates

pharmacies Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it links healt ...

primary care Primary care is the day-to-day healthcare given by a health care provider. Typically this provider acts as the first contact and principal point of continuing care for patients within a healthcare system, and coordinates other specialist care ...

and

diagnostic Diagnosis is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon. Diagnosis is used in many different disciplines, with variations in the use of logic, analytics, and experience, to determine " cause and effect". In systems engin ...

centres,

telehealth Telehealth is the distribution of health-related services and information via electronic information and telecommunication technologies. It allows long-distance patient and clinician contact, care, advice, reminders, education, intervention, mon ...

clinics, and

digital healthcare Digital health is a discipline that includes digital care programs, technologies with health, healthcare, living, and society to enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery and to make medicine more personalized and precise. It uses informat ...

services among others through its subsidiaries. The company was founded by Prathap C. Reddy in 1983 as the first corporate healthcare provider in India. Several of Apollo's hospitals have been among the first in India to receive

international healthcare accreditation Due to the near-universal desire for safe and good quality healthcare, there is a growing interest in international healthcare accreditation. Providing healthcare, especially of an adequate standard, is a complex and challenging process. Healthca ...

by the America-based

Joint Commission International The Joint Commission is a United States-based nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c) organization that accredits more than 22,000 US health care organizations and programs. The international branch accredits medical services from around the world. A majori ...

(JCI) as well as

NABH National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers), abbreviated as NABH, is a constituent board of Quality Council of India (QCI), set up to establish and operate accreditation programme for healthcare organizations. Formed in 2 ...

accreditation.

History

It was founded by Prathap C. Reddy in 1983 as the first corporate health care in India. The first branch at Chennai was inaugurated by the then President of India

Zail Singh Giani Zail Singh (, born Jarnail Singh; 5 May 1916 – 25 December 1994) was an Indian politician from Punjab who served as the seventh president of India from 1982 to 1987. He was the first Sikh and the first person from a backward caste to be ...

. Apollo developed telemedicine services, after starting a pilot project in 2000 at Aragonda, Prathap Reddy's home village. In 2007, Apollo Hospitals and DKV AG established a 74:26

joint venture A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and economic risk, risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four rea ...

health insurance company called Apollo DKV Insurance Co. The company was rebranded as Apollo Munich Health Insurance in 2009. In December 2012, Apollo Hospitals sold its 38% stake in Apollo Health Street, the group's healthcare

business process outsourcing Outsourcing is an agreement in which one company hires another company to be responsible for a planned or existing activity which otherwise is or could be carried out internally, i.e. in-house, and sometimes involves transferring employees and ...

division, to Sutherland Global Services for . In October 2015, Apollo launched home care services under Apollo HomeCare and its digital healthcare platform called Ask Apollo. Apollo signed an MoU with

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in April 2017 to provide a large number of doctors to fill vacancies in the English

National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the " ...

. In January 2020, Apollo Hospitals sold its 50.80% percent majority stake in Apollo Munich Health Insurance to HDFC for . In March 2022, Apollo Hospitals got included in Nifty 50 benchmark index, replacing

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, to become the first hospital company to be included on the index. File:Apollo Proton Cancer Centre, Chennai.jpg, Apollo Proton Cancer Centre, Chennai File:Apollo Hospital Indraprastha.jpg, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Delhi File:Apollo Hospitals Bengaluru.jpg, Apollo Cancer Hospital & Research Centre, Bangalore File:Apollo_Hospitals, Visakhapatnam.jpg, Apollo Hospitals, Visakhapatnam File:Apollo Hospital Dhaka 2014.jpg, Apollo Hospitals, Dhaka

Subsidiaries

Apollo HealthCo

Apollo HealthCo was formed in 2021 with the merger of the group's non-hospital pharmacy chain Apollo Pharmacy and its digital healthcare business known as Apollo 24/7. *Apollo Pharmacy – Apollo Pharmacy is the largest retail pharmacy chain in India with more than 4000 outlets in over 21 states. It was started in 1987. *Apollo 24/7 – Apollo 24/7 is the

platform of the group which was launched in 2020. It offers

consultation, online medicine ordering and delivery, and in-home diagnostics among other services.

Apollo Health and Lifestyle

Apollo Health and Lifestyle is the

arm of the group which operates multi-specialty clinics under Apollo Clinics,

diagnostics Diagnosis is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon. Diagnosis is used in many different disciplines, with variations in the use of logic, analytics, and experience, to determine "cause and effect". In systems engineer ...

and

pathology Pathology is the study of the causes and effects of disease or injury. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices. However, when used in ...

labs under Apollo Diagnostics,

diabetes Diabetes, also known as diabetes mellitus, is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by a high blood sugar level ( hyperglycemia) over a prolonged period of time. Symptoms often include frequent urination, increased thirst and increased ...

clinics under Apollo Sugar, dental hospitals under Apollo White, dialysis centres under Apollo Dialysis,

surgical Surgery ''cheirourgikē'' (composed of χείρ, "hand", and ἔργον, "work"), via la, chirurgiae, meaning "hand work". is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a person to investigate or treat a pat ...

hospitals under Apollo Spectra, women/children hospitals under Apollo Cradle, and

fertility clinic Fertility clinics are medical clinics that assist couples, and sometimes individuals, who want to become parents but for medical reasons have been unable to achieve this goal via the natural course. Clinics apply a number of diagnosis tests and s ...

s under Apollo Fertility.

Apollo TeleHealth Services

Apollo TeleHealth Services owns the

network of the group, operating via a business-to-consumer model under which it offers direct services like online consultations, appointment booking, medicine delivery, among others; a business-to-business offering to corporates for their employees; and a

business-to-government Business-to-government (B2G),Market Business NewsWhat is B2G or business-to-government? Definition and examples accessed 31 August 2020 also known as business-to-administration (B2A), refers to trade between the business sector as a supplier and a ...

agreement providing telehealth services in partnership with public health systems. Established in 1999, it is headquartered in

Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India ...

and has more than 100 franchised teleclinics.

Research and education divisions

Stamp of India - 2019 - Colnect 874941 - Apollo Hospitals - Center of Cardiology

* Apollo Research and Innovations is a research arm of the group which is involved in

clinical trial Clinical trials are prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human participants designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioral interventions, including new treatments (such as novel vaccines, drugs, diet ...

s of drugs, medical devices, healthcare software and consumer products. It was established in 2000 and has 17 centres at hospital locations. *Apollo Hospitals Education & Research Foundation is a

non-profit A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...

which conducts research projects at its

wet lab A wet lab, or experimental lab, is a type of laboratory where it is necessary to handle various types of chemicals and potential "wet" hazards, so the room has to be carefully designed, constructed, and controlled to avoid spillage and contamination ...

run by the Cell and Molecular Biology Research Centre (CMBRC) in

liquid biopsy A liquid biopsy, also known as fluid biopsy or fluid phase biopsy, is the sampling and analysis of non-solid biological tissue, primarily blood. Like traditional biopsy, this type of technique is mainly used as a diagnostic and monitoring tool for ...

molecular diagnostics Molecular diagnostics is a collection of techniques used to analyze biological markers in the genome and proteome, and how their cells express their genes as proteins, applying molecular biology to medical testing. In medicine the technique is ...

pharmacogenomics Pharmacogenomics is the study of the role of the genome in drug response. Its name ('' pharmaco-'' + ''genomics'') reflects its combining of pharmacology and genomics. Pharmacogenomics analyzes how the genetic makeup of an individual affects the ...

and exosome technologies. *Apollo Medskills is a private-public partnership between Apollo Hospitals and

National Skill Development Corporation National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is a not-for-profit public limited company incorporated on July 31, 2008, under section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956 (corresponding to section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013). NSDC was set up by Min ...

started in 2012 for the development of medical skills of healthcare workforce through 40+ training institutes across the country.

References

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