Rainbow Hospitals

Rainbow Hospitals

Company type	Public
Traded as	NSE:  RAINBOW BSE:  543524
Industry	Healthcare
Founded	1999
Founder	Ramesh Kancharla
Headquarters	Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Key people	Ramesh Kancharla (Chairman)
Brands	Rainbow Children's Hospital BirthRight by Rainbow Hospitals
Services	Paediatric care Neonatal care Maternity healthcare Women's healthcare Fertility clinic Outpatient clinic
Website	rainbowhospitals.in

Rainbow Children's Medicare, commonly known as Rainbow Hospitals, is an Indian chain of paediatric hospitals headquartered in Hyderabad. ^[1] Founded by Dr. Ramesh Kancharla in 1999, ^[2] the hospital's main focus is paediatric and maternal healthcare services. ^[3] The flagship facility of Rainbow Children's Hospitals is located at Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. ^[4] The Rainbow Hospital Group currently operates out of 19 hospitals and 3 outpatient clinics – eight in Hyderabad, four in Bangalore, two each in Delhi, Chennai, Vijayawada, and Visakhapatnam. ^{[5] [4] [6] [7] [8]}

Awards

Inauguration of Rainbow Children's Hospital in Delhi in 2018.

• ICICI Lombard and CNBC-TV18 India Healthcare Award for Best Pediatric Hospital-2018 ^[9]
• VCCircle Awards 2016 - Best Healthcare company of the year 2016. ^[10]
• VCCircle Awards 2015 - Best Hospital in Single Specialty services. ^[11]

Records

• Rainbow Hospitals sets the "Guinness World Record —for the largest gathering of people born prematurely under one roof" on World Prematurity Day held on 17 November 2016 ^[12]
• Rainbow Children's Hospital attains a place in 'Limca book of records - for saving a baby born with 375gms of birth weight.^{[ citation needed ]}

References

1. Rainbow Childrens Hospital And Perinatal Centre, Practo, accessed at 20 Oct 2014
2. HISTORY – TAKING A WALK DOWN THE MEMORY LANE, Rainbow Hospitals, accessed at 20 Oct 2014
3. "Rainbow Hospitals gets Rs.100 crore funding from CDC, Abraaj Group", Livemint, accessed at 20 Oct 2014
4. 1 2 "UAE’s Abraaj and UK’s CDC Invest $17.5m In India’s Rainbow Hospitals", Gulf Business, accessed at 20 Oct 2014
5. "Rainbow Hospital is raising 250 crore", The Hindu 11 Oct 2015
6. "Rainbow Hospital Expands to Chennai, Vizag", My Digital FC, accessed at 25 June 2015
7. "Hospital chain Rainbow plans to raise Rs60-70 crore fresh equity", Live Mint, accessed at 25 June 2015
8. "PE-backed Rainbow Hospitals creating south-focused paediatric & maternal care chain", VC Circle, accessed at 14 April 2015
9. "India Healthcare Award".
10. "VCCircle Awards". vccircle.com. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
11. "VCCircle Awards". vccircle.com. Archived from the original on 1 March 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
12. "Guinness World Record". guinnessworldrecords.com. Retrieved 20 July 2017.