16th Annual Report 2011-12 - Fortis Healthcare

40 16th Annual Report 2011-12 Operations Review
to better patient survivability and
outcomes.
Network update-India
FORTIS ESCORTS HEART
INSTITUTE, NEW DELHI
The hospital won the prestigious
Asian Hospital Management
Excellence Award 2011, in the
Patient Safety category for
‘Reducing Surgical Site Infections
in Cardiac Surgery Patients’.
The hospital was selected out
of 315 entries and 84 hospitals,
in 11 countries worldwide,
vying for the Awards. The jury
comprised representatives from
the Joint Commission International
(JCI), Johns Hopkins Medicine
International and the International
Hospital Federation.
Doctors at the Fortis Escorts
Heart Institute performed India’s
first successful Percutaneous
Transcatheter Aortic Valve
Replacement (TAVI). TAVI is an
alternative to open heart surgery
and is considered a better alternate
Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi
since it is a minimally invasive
procedure.
Fortis launched Asia’s first
electronic Intensive Care Unit
(eICU) facility – CritiNext, at the
Fortis Escorts Heart Institute.
The eICU services being offered
by CritiNext make speciality
critical care accessible and
affordable to critically ill patients,
in small towns of India. It enables
a remote hospital to provide
advanced consultation, care and
monitoring to their critically ill
in-patients without having to
physically transfer them to superspeciality
hospitals. CritiNext is
India’s as well as Asia’s first eICU
and is operational in two hospitals
based in Raipur and Dehradun.
The hospital launched India’s
first Fortis Acute Stroke Treatment
(FAST) programme. The standard
practices at Fortis Escorts Heart
Institute ensure that the patient
is treated within pre-set timelines
as timely intervention is the key
FORTIS HOSPITAL, MOHALI
During the year, the hospital
organised ‘Cardiomersion - An
Integrated Approach to Delivery
of Comprehensive Cardiac
Care’. It was the Fortis Global
Cardiothoracic and Vascular
Surgery (CTVS) Conference, the
first global conference on Cardiac
Sciences.
The hospital also organised the
Fortis International Liver Summit.
The conference provided a unique
forum to clinicians, scientists and
researchers to discuss key issues
on the theme “Saving Lives from
Liver Disease, Globally” and to
explore new solutions for related
topics based on regional, national
and international experiences.
Several first time procedures
were performed at the hospital
which included Transjugular
Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt
(TIPS); first Bariatric surgery and
first ever Elbow Joint Replacement.
FORTIS HOSPITAL, NOIDA
The hospital won the first
runners-up award for Operational
Excellence, at the Federation of
Indian Chambers of Commerce
and Industry (FICCI) Healthcare
Awards. It also received the
second prize for National Energy
Conservation amongst hospitals.
The prize was instituted by the
Government of India.
Fortis Hospital, Noida is the
first private hospital in the state of
Uttar Pradesh to run a successful
liver transplant programme. 14
transplant surgeries have been
conducted so far at the hospital,
since the programme was launched
in December 2010.