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New Projects
Paras Hospitals Starts Hospital in New Delhi
The hospital would mainly focus on mother and child, cosmetic
and skin centre and minimally invasive procedures
Paras Spring Meadows |
After establishing its footprint in Gurgaon, Paras Hospitals
recently started its second facility by taking on a hospital in New Delhi on
long-term lease. The 25-year-old Spring Meadows Hospital, one of the earliest
nursing homes of Delhi, is now re-christened as Paras Spring Meadows (PSM).
Said Dr Dharminder Nagar, Managing Director, Paras Hospitals,
"The Paras Spring Meadows deal was closed in January 2009, but was officially
acquired on 1st April, 2009. At the time of agreement, the hospital was functioning
with a running OPD and limited IPD services."
PSM would mainly focus on mother and child, cosmetic and skin centre and minimally
invasive procedures. The hospital would also provide surgeries like joint transplants
and other basic specialties like general surgery, internal medicine, psychiatry,
non intervention cardiology etc. After the renovation, the hospital has a total
bed strength of 25 and one labour delivery suite and two-bed emergency. The
complete renovation cost was approximately Rs three crore.
Elaborating on the renovations, Dr Shankar Narang, GM Operations & Quality,
Paras Hospitals, said, "The OPD in the basement was completely renovated
and space was created for waiting area of the patients by adding two more chambers.
The lighting arrangement was given a special emphasis as the illumination was
important in the basement."
The challenges in the renovation included repositioning of the services as per
the flow of the patients in the OPD/IPD and reception area. "Some of the
examples were relocation of the pharmacy and emergency services to other areas
for the maximum and appropriate utilisation of the services. The other challenges
were creating a separate isolated area on the second floor for OTs, LDR suite
and a level III neonatal ICU," added Dr Narang.
From one existing OT and a labour room, space was created to have two spacious
OTs and a separate space for one bed post op ward. A new labour delivery suite
was created for the comfort of patients during the process of normal delivery.
A five-bed NICU was created with separate areas for gowning and feeding of the
babies.
"All these renovations were carried on without disturbing the routin eactivities
of the hospital. The areas for renovation were segregated by the functional
areas and the work was carried out without disturbing the normal operations
of the hospital. The complete process of renovating the hospital took only three
months," added Dr Nagar.
It was not only infrastructure which was revamped, but the complete medical
equipment required a revamping. The NICU is revamped with warmers, monitors,
bubbles CPAP, ventilator etc. The OTs are equipped with newanaesthesia machines,
monitors, OT tables and lights, operating sets and imaging solutions. The complete
set up was put an integrated HIS except for the clinical services. Meanwhile,
Paras Hospitals Gurgaon received NABL accreditation in May 2009 and NABH accreditation
in July 2009. Asked about future expansion, Dr Nagar said, "We are soon
looking to announce another 150-200 bed hospital in 6-12 months horizon in NCR."
It is looking at implementing six sigma in the hospital operations in the near
future.
Rita Dutta
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