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Sterling Hospitals, is one of the hospital chains in Gujarat. It is owned and managed by Sterling AddLife India Ltd. The specialties in which it provides medical care include: Cardiology, Neurology, GI Medicine, Hematology, Oncology, Critical and Emergency treatment, Trauma and Orthopedic, Neonatology and General Medicine. Surgery treatments include CVTS-, Neuro- and Onco-surgeries, Nephrology (with Kidney Transplant), GI surgeries and General Surgeries. Sterling's multi-speciality tertiary care hospitals are located in Ahmedabad and Vadodara. It also has three satellite centers at Kalol, Mehsana and Himmatnagar. STERLING HOSPITAL, the company's largest hospital complex in Ahmedabad has 310 beds, 7 major operation theatres and 84 ICU beds. Multiple facilities are also available at Vadodara complex.

The Hospitals treat patients from Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and from outside the country.

In 2009 Sterling became the 1st NABH accredited hospital in Gujarat

In 2010 Sterling Hospital has been ranked as “No. 1” hospital in Ahmedabad according to recent THE WEEK - IMRB surveys for the second consecutive year

Development Underway
Sterling proposes to cross the 1000-bed mark with additional state-of-the art hospitals planned at Rajkot, Surat and Bhavnagar by 2010. Sterling is also focused on clinical research and medical education through DNB programs.

Sterling has taken up 2 green field projects at Rajkot and Bhavnagar. The estimated cost of Rajkot project for setting up a 160 bed hospitals is kept at Rs. 75 Crores. The company has acquired a piece of commercial land at Bhavnagar for setting up a medium sized 120 beds capacity (expandable upto 130 beds) hospital with estimated cost of project of Rs. 46 Crores.

Awards and Accolades
Sterling Hospitals has received the following awards and accolades in recognition of its pioneering achievements in Indian healthcare :
 * Rated Best Hospital (2007) by IMRB & ‘The Week’ magazine;
 * Pathology department ranked 3rd in India & 10th in the World (2006-07);
 * CRRT Dialysis – First in India;
 * First Bone Marrow Unit in Gujarat;
 * Biggest Dialysis Unit in Gujarat;
 * ISO 9001: 2000 for Pathology department;
 * Level-1 hospital for accident and trauma care unit – recognition by EMCA;
 * The only hospital in the state to offer thrombolytic therapy for paralytic patients.

Community Social Responsibility
Sterling Hospitals social outreach program consists of Free Health Camps, Public Awareness Talks, CMEs for medical fraternity, Outstation OPDs etc. Few of the initiatives are as follows :
 * Mega health Check up camp at 33 societies in association with Radio Mirchi where nearly 2000 participants have taken benefit of this camp (2007);
 * Basic Life Support Programme for Rotary Members (2007);
 * Paticipation in Ambaji Camp on ‘Bhadarvi Punam’, where a Doctors team have seen nearly 18000 pilgrims (2007);
 * Mega health Camp for parents in Association with UCMAS (2008);
 * Free Medical Camp – Open for all, at Unjha where 1000 participants has taken benefit;
 * First Aid & basic Life Support training Programme is organized for Traffic Police personnel;
 * Every year World Kidney Donor’s Day is celebrated with series of activities like Walkathon, felicitate Kidney donors by giving them a trophy & Certificate for saving lives, just to spread awareness about Kidney Disease & saving lives;
 * On World Heart Day – Sterling hospital always take initiatives like organizing Walkathon, colony promotions etc and involve various associations, corporate house to spread awareness about cardiac Disease & its risk;
 * Outstation OPDs is planned at various places within the Gujarat at regualar intervals;
 * Public Awareness Talk is given by eminent doctors on various topics related to heart, Kidney, joints etc at regular intervals at club, associations like Rotary, lions etc in association with banks , PSUs & corporate.

Milestones
As indicated by last statistics :
 * Performed more than 200 successful Cadaver & living related Renal Transplants;
 * More than 13000 Angiographies & 4200 Angioplasties successfully performed results at par with international standards;
 * Achieved a 99.6% success rate in cardiac bypass surgeries, over 91% of these were beating heart surgeries.