Ramaiah Memorial Hospital (RMH), one of India's leading
multi-super-specialty quaternary care hospitals based at Bengaluru,
Karnataka, has signed an exclusive agreement with the New
York-based Mount Sinai Health System today, marking the beginning
of a transformative partnership that aims at advancing healthcare
services through collaborations in clinical excellence, quality of
care, research, innovation and technology.
The collaboration, formalized through a
long-term acollaboration agreement, reinforces the commitment of
both institutions by provisioning Mount Sinai’s support to the
Ramaiah Memorial Hospital to further advance the development of its
clinical competencies and centers of excellence in a host of select
specialty areas, including, but not limited to, Oncology,
Cardiology, Neurosciences, Urology-Nephrology, and other Clinical
Specialties.
A key component of the Ramaiah-Mount
Sinai collaboration will include the periodic review of
Ramaiah’s complex clinical cases by both Ramaiah’s and Mount
Sinai’s top clinical experts across various clinical specialties to
assist Ramaiah in identifying the best treatment options for
patients.
Speaking on this momentous
occasion, Dr. M. R. Jayaram, Chairman–Gokula Education
Foundation, shared, "At Ramaiah Memorial Hospital, we
are excited to announce this significant collaboration with Mount
Sinai in New York which is aimed to advance clinical excellence,
enhance patient care, safety, quality, further medical innovation
and technology, and take the standard of the overall healthcare
offerings to the next level."
Dr. Szabi Dorotovics, President of Mount
Sinai International, said, "It is in the spirit
of Kempe Gowda – the founder of Bengaluru - who, to this day, is
remembered for enabling the citizens of Bengaluru enhance their
development and prosperity, that Mount Sinai and the Ramaiah
Memorial Hospital have now forged our long-term collaboration and
partnership. Together, we seek to provide the citizens of
Bengaluru, and the State of Karnataka, with the highest
international standards of healthcare to enhance their wellness,
and thereby, their prosperity."
Shri M R Sreenivasa Murthy, Chief
Executive, Gokula Education Foundation
(Medical), said, “Our commitment to clinical
excellence is a testament to our continuous strive to improve and
innovate. We invest in the latest technology and techniques to
ensure that our patients have access to the most advanced
treatments available, and we are constantly working to improve our
processes and procedures to deliver better outcomes for our
patients. The collaboration with Mount Sinai in New York is a
step towards taking this commitment further for the benefit of our
patients and the clinical fraternity."
Dr SC Nagendra Swamy, President–Ramaiah
Memorial Hospital, emphasized the hospital's
dedication to clinical excellence and continuous improvement,
stating, “With our strategic collaboration with Mount
Sinai Hospital New York, our offerings as a leading healthcare
provider in the region will be compounded manifolds and will open
doors for providing patient care, safety and quality excellence
along with possible medical research for our clinicians as well as
to learn and acquire the latest clinical exposures from the best
minds at Mount Sinai via virtual webinars, workshops and
on-site case reviews/discussions as part of the collaboration
initiative. Ramaiah is committed to empowering its team of
healthcare professionals through advanced training programs,
workshops, and access to the latest medical research, knowledge,
techniques and technologies.”
Dr. David L. Reich, President–Mount
Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Queens, emphasized
that “The pairing of Mount Sinai with the Ramaiah Memorial
Hospital is an ideal partnership combining two leading institutions
with long histories that are dedicated to medical education,
clinical innovation, and an unwavering focus on providing
world-class healthcare services to their patients. In the coming
years of our collaboration, it will be my honor to facilitate
Ramaiah’s access to Mount Sinai’s clinical and management expertise
and best-practices, and I look forward to our continuously-evolving
mutual engagement.”
Ramaiah Memorial Hospital and Mount Sinai look
forward to a fruitful collaboration that will set new benchmarks in
healthcare delivery and positively impact the lives of patients in
India and in the sub-continent.
About Ramaiah Memorial
Hospital
Ramaiah Memorial Hospital (RMH) is a
Multi-Super-Specialty Quaternary Care Hospital, located in the
heart of Bangalore city, India. The state-of-the-art, 500+ bed
hospital is equipped with all the modern facilities including
cutting-edge medical technologies, modular Operation Theatres,
advanced ICUs, spacious ward rooms etc which all come together to
offer comprehensive medical services in more than 30 specialties.
RMH as a multi-disciplinary quaternary care hospital has
internationally-benchmarked capabilities in the field of Organ
Transplantation, Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Medical, Surgical,
Radiation & Hematological Oncosciences, Nuclear Medicine,
Neurology, Neurosurgery and Neurointerventions, Medical, Surgical
& Interventional Gastroenterology, Joint Replacement &
Arthroscopic Surgeries, Urology-Nephrology, High-end
Gynaec-oncology surgeries, Robotic Surgeries in Urology,
Gynaecology, Oncosurgery and Gastroenterology; Plastic &
Cosmetic Surgery, High-End Cosmetology, Laparoscopic Surgeries and
Vascular Surgeries.
RMH also functions as a one stop super-specialty
medical care destination by offering highly advanced Diagnostic,
Therapeutic and Intensive Critical Care facilities along with
services on Alternative Therapies that are complemented by our
Ramaiah Indic Specialty Ayurveda Restoration Hospital (RISA)
located adjacent to RMH.
About the Mount Sinai Health
System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest
academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with 48,000
employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient
practices, more than 600 research and clinical labs, a school of
nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education.
Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking
on the most complex health care challenges of our time—discovering
and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing
safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of
medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by
delivering high-quality care to all who need it.
Through the integration of its hospitals, labs,
and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions
from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches
such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping
patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all
treatment. The Health System includes approximately 9,000 primary
and specialty care physicians and 11 free-standing joint-venture
centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester,
Long Island, and Florida. Hospitals within the System are
consistently ranked by Newsweek’s® “The World’s Best
Smart Hospitals, Best in State Hospitals, World Best Hospitals and
Best Specialty Hospitals” and by U.S. News & World
Report's® “Best Hospitals” and “Best Children’s Hospitals.”
The Mount Sinai Hospital is on the U.S. News & World
Report® “Best Hospitals” Honor Roll for 2023-2024.
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