Pushpagiri Medical College Hospital is a 900-bed, multidisciplinary, specialty hospital in

Thiruvalla Thiruvalla, alternately spelled Tiruvalla, is a town in Kerala and the Headquarters of the Taluk of the same name located in Pathanamthitta district in the State of Kerala, India. The town is spread over an area of . It lies on the banks of ...

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, India. It is administered by Thiruvalla Archeparchy of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. The hospital began as an eight-bed clinic in 1959 and was recognized as a

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in 2002. The hospital is certified by the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO) 9001:2000 standards and India's

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(NABH). The hospital has 42 Departments, including Anesthesiology, Critical Care, Dentistry, Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, ENT, General Medicine, General Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Psychiatry, Pulmonary Medicine, and Radio Diagnosis. The institutions that use Pushpagiri Hospital include: * Pushpagiri College of Medicine (Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre) * Pushpagiri College of Pharmacy * Pushpagiri College of Nursing * Pushpagiri College of Dental Sciences * Pushpagiri College of Allied Health Sciences The hospital's facilities include a 24-hour Adoration Chapel, the Pushpagiri Church and Shrines, a canteen, and hostels.

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