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Rainbow Hospitals

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Rainbow Hospitals
Company typePublic
IndustryHealthcare
Founded1999
FounderRamesh Kancharla
HeadquartersHyderabad, Telangana, India
Key people
Ramesh Kancharla (Chairman)
Brands
  • Rainbow Children's Hospital
  • BirthRight by Rainbow Hospitals
Services
Websiterainbowhospitals.in

Rainbow Children's Medicare, commonly known as Rainbow Hospitals, is an Indian chain of paediatric hospitals headquartered in Hyderabad.[1] Founded by Dr. Ramesh Kancharla in 1999,[2] the hospital's main focus is paediatric and maternal healthcare services.[3] The flagship facility of Rainbow Children's Hospitals is located at Banjara Hills, Hyderabad.[4] The Rainbow Hospital Group currently operates out of 19 hospitals and 3 outpatient clinics – eight in Hyderabad, four in Bangalore, two each in Delhi, Chennai, Vijayawada, and Visakhapatnam.[5][4][6][7][8]

Awards

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Inauguration of Rainbow Children's Hospital in Delhi in 2018.
  • ICICI Lombard and CNBC-TV18 India Healthcare Award for Best Pediatric Hospital-2018 [9]
  • VCCircle Awards 2016 - Best Healthcare company of the year 2016.[10]
  • VCCircle Awards 2015 - Best Hospital in Single Specialty services.[11]

Records

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  • Rainbow Hospitals sets the "Guinness World Record —for the largest gathering of people born prematurely under one roof" on World Prematurity Day held on 17 November 2016[12]
  • Rainbow Children's Hospital attains a place in 'Limca book of records - for saving a baby born with 375gms of birth weight.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ Rainbow Childrens Hospital And Perinatal Centre, Practo, accessed at [1] 20 Oct 2014
  2. ^ HISTORY – TAKING A WALK DOWN THE MEMORY LANE, Rainbow Hospitals, accessed at [2] 20 Oct 2014
  3. ^ "Rainbow Hospitals gets Rs.100 crore funding from CDC, Abraaj Group", Livemint, accessed at [3] 20 Oct 2014
  4. ^ a b "UAE’s Abraaj and UK’s CDC Invest $17.5m In India’s Rainbow Hospitals", Gulf Business, accessed at [4] 20 Oct 2014
  5. ^ "Rainbow Hospital is raising 250 crore", The Hindu [5] 11 Oct 2015
  6. ^ "Rainbow Hospital Expands to Chennai, Vizag", My Digital FC, accessed at [6] 25 June 2015
  7. ^ "Hospital chain Rainbow plans to raise Rs60-70 crore fresh equity", Live Mint, accessed at [7] 25 June 2015
  8. ^ "PE-backed Rainbow Hospitals creating south-focused paediatric & maternal care chain", VC Circle, accessed at [8] 14 April 2015
  9. ^ "India Healthcare Award".
  10. ^ "VCCircle Awards". vccircle.com. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  11. ^ "VCCircle Awards". vccircle.com. Archived from the original on 1 March 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  12. ^ "Guinness World Record". guinnessworldrecords.com. Retrieved 20 July 2017.