Media Release
Mangaluru, Oct 14: Renowned institution Athena Hospital extending the state-of-the-art healthcare facilities in Mangaluru has gained the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH) Accreditation for the outstanding efforts in serving the healthcare of its patients with a step forward standards by extending the utmost good healthcare with upgraded NABH standards (EL).
Athena Hospital already has ISO 9001-2015 recognition from the past ten years. Athena Hospital is well known throughout the undivided South Kanara, North Kanara to Calicut in the coastal Kerala and gained its own name and fame in these regions.
Athena Hospital is an integrated multi-speciality hospital and healthcare promotion center of medical excellence, which was established in the year 1997. The multi-dimensional hospital complex houses amongst other facilities, state-of-the-art equipment and conveniences designed to meet any diagnostic, therapeutic, surgical and primary healthcare requirements.
Athena Hospital has excellent 24 hours facilities like Cardiology, Casualty/Emergency, Dental Surgery, Internal Medicine, Laboratory Medicine, Neonatology, Nephrology, Neurology, Neuro-Surgery, Obstetrics/Gynaecology, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Physiotherapy, Pulmonary Medicine, Radiology Imaging, Urology, and Vascular surgery. Athena Hospital has always been sensitive to social needs regarding healthcare, which was a key factor to start Nursing Education programmes.
Athena Institute of Health Sciences, a unit of Athena Hospital, is affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bengaluru.
With the motto Excellence in Education and Quality in Service’, the institution prepares Quality Health Care Personnel to cater to the health needs of people regardless of caste, religion and language.
The school of nursing came in to existence in 2003 with a 3 year Diploma in Nursing (GNM) and BSc Nursing in 2004. Later in 2009, PC BSc Nursing and MSc Nursing programme also was started. Another milestone was when the institution started graduate courses in Allied Health Sciences under Athena Institute of Health Sciences by starting BSc Renal Dialysis Technology course in the year 2017. In the coming academic year, it has started new courses in BSc Medical Laboratory Technology, BSc Operation Theatre Technology, BSc Imaging Technology and BSc Renal Technology.
Athena Group of Institutions has a wider vision of extending the standard quality service with a fair and affordable less burdened cost in upcoming days to the society and the public at large, chairman and managing director R S Shettian has reiterated.