Fortis Hospitals, Kolkata – A legacy that stands tall

Overview

Richa S. Debgupta Facility Director, Fortis Hospitals, Kolkata

Fortis Healthcare India has demonstrated a decade of high growth in scaling its operations from a single hospital in 2001 to a network of 74 hospitals with more than 12,000 beds, 580 primary care centers, 188 day care speciality centres, 190 diagnostic centres and a base of over 23,000 employees making it amongst the largest integrated healthcare delivery networks in Asia Pacific.

Fortis Hospitals, Anandapur

Commissioned on January 9, 2011, Fortis Hospitals, Kolkata is a 400-bed super speciality hospital located on EM Bypass Road. It is a part of India’s leading healthcare providers – Fortis Healthcare, focussing on the tertiary care of super specialities like cardiology and cardiac surgery, orthopedics, neurosciences, digestive care, urology and nephrology, emergency care and critical care. Their amenities include a 24-hour accident and emergency service including trauma treatment, ambulance services, blood bank, fully functional operation theatres, cardiac catheterisation lab, preventive health check, diagnostic lab, critical and emergency care.

Services at Fortis

After successful completion of one year, Fortis has extended its service to advanced specialities like interventional radiology, interventional broncho-thoracoscopy along with their existing super specialities – cardiac care, bone and joint care, brain and spine care, digestive care, kidney care, lung care, emergency and critical care and many other associate specialities.

“Fortis Hospital combines technological advantages and best in class clinical team providing tertiary care. Our team of clinicians across the area of cardiac care, orthopaedics, neuro sciences, minimal access surgery, uro & Nephro and Digestive care are some of the fine expertise who have contributed phenomenally in their respective fields in India and abroad,” said Richa S Debgupta, Facility Director, Fortis Hospitals, Kolkata.

Reach in eastern India:

Fortis also has extensive geographical coverage in Eastern India with nine speciality clinics in Agartala, Silchar, Guwahati, Bongaigaon, Jamshedpur, Siliguri, Asansol, Durgapur and Chandannagar.

Speciality clinics

To continue their patient centric support services Fortis has launched exclusive medical units like

• Headache clinic
• Epilepsy clinic
• Spine clinic
• Liver clinic and
  
• Fortis Heart Team

State-of-art technology at Fortis, Anandapur

• 64-slide Siemens Somatom CT Scan and 1.5 Telsa 18 Channel Siemens Avanto MRI machine
• ICU is well equipped which includes MICU, CCU, recovery and isolation beds with separate high dependency units
• 64 beds in twin sharing cubicles for the attendants of ICU patients
• A nephrology department with 28 advanced dialysis units and chemotherapy beds
• Advanced neurophysiology lab equipped with EEG machine of international standards

A good start

In the past one year, Fortis has lived up to their promise of providing superior care to Kolkata

• First headache clinic in eastern India
• First custom fit knee replacement surgery in eastern India
• First radiofrequency ablation surgery in eastern India
• First comprehensive epilepsy care programme in eastern India
• Launch of exclusive clinics such as hernia clinic, liver clinic, sleep clinic, spine clinic, etc.

Best practices

Patient Welfare: Prevention is better than cure and Fortis believed in prevention strongly. So to fulfill this mission they have taken “Step once a day” programme in every week, a bedside educational session on assessment of pressure sore. They also conduct “Braden scale”, training on accessories of specialised beds and for prevention of DVT.

Quality assurance

• Prescription audit
• Clinical practice guidelines monitored
• Guidelines on medical management formulated

Human resource

• FHL always strives to offer the best service to patient and their relatives. For this continuous training and development programme is being imparted to our customer care as well as nursing department to enhance patient safety and quality care.

Did you know

Corporate social responsibilities

• It has pneumatic chute system for quick horizontal and vertical transportation of medicines between floors.
• Marmolium flooring used for interior decoration
  
• The building has a rooftop garden on its 8th floor

Breakthrough surgeries

In spite of being just one year old, Fortis Kolkata has conducted several breakthrough surgeries. Few of them are as follows:

• Implantation of CRT (Bi-ventricular pacing) in a patient with previous two heart attacks and bypass surgery
• An exceptional case of Primary Angioplasty done at 80 year old patient
• Rare brain tumour (schwannoma arising from tentorium cerebelli) operation by Dr Amitabha Chanda – seventh case reported in the world literature.
  
• Removal of large hemorrhagic contusion from left frontal lobe through the supraorbital key hole surgery
• A rare case of “3rd time revision of knee joint replacement”
• Laparoscopic ultra low anterior resection for rectal cancer
• Combination of radiofrequency and chemo- embolisation for a large liver tumour
  
• 18-year old student underwent awake brain tumour surgery.