Recognized as one of the premier hospitals of South Asia, Embracing the World's AIMS Hospital offers sophisticated and compassionate care in a serene and beautiful atmosphere.

AIMS Hospital's mission is to provide outstanding and affordable medical care in a patient-friendly environment and in a spirit of compassion to all, regardless of race, caste, religion or economic condition. Charitable care to the fullest extent possible is provided to those in need. A majority of all patients receive either subsidized or free treatment. Since 1998, AIMS and all the healthcare institutions run by Embracing the World have provided more than U.S. $50 million worth of free medical care; over 1.2 million patients received completely free treatment.

• Uncompromising Commitment High-Quality Care for All
• AIMS Specialty Departments
• Special Outreach Projects
• Pain and Palliative Home Care
• Telemedicine
• Aims Hospital Specialized Disaster Response
• Community Medicine Department
• Mobile Medical Assistance

Uncompromising Commitment High-Quality Care for All

While AIMS has expanded its departments and services over the years, it has also retained its uncompromising commitment to providing charitable care. This commitment to quality care for all has attracted a highly qualified and dedicated team of medical professionals with international experience.

Dr. Subramanium, head of the Paediatric Cardiology, explains: "The difference in AIMS is the motive factor. Here we are not forced to work for a financial return for the hospital. Elsewhere I would have to do that. Here there is an ethical approach to the work. I find the staff here are very aware, responsible and good at their work. Each staff member should be like a role model for others and that is happening. There is an atmosphere of calm, even in acute emergency sections. That is very rare in a hospital.

"Patients have a very wide access to our services at very low cost. Anyone can register here for a nominal fee, and I can send patients to see another doctor very easily with no extra charge to the patients. We can't find that elsewhere. All my hopes about coming here have been confirmed."

The quality and ethical standards of AIMS have inspired other hospitals in the area to improve quality of care and lower the cost of the services they provide.

AIMS Specialty Departments

• Center for Heart Diseases
• Center for Cancer Diseases
• Center for Digestive Diseases
• Center for Neurosciences
• Center for Orthopedics
• Center for Plastic/Reconstructive and Micro Vascular Surgery
• Center for Endocrinology & Diabetes
• Center for Behavioral Sciences
• Center for Solid Organ Transplant (Kidney, Liver)
• Center for Laboratory Medicine
• Center for Medical Informatics, Multimedia-Education, Telemedicine and Digital Health
• Center for Nanosciences

Special Outreach Projects

Cleft Palates and Lip-Palate Defects are the fourth most common physical defects in the world, which often present significant problems with speech. 35,000 babies in India are born with such conditions every year. AIMS provides reconstructive surgeries and runs regular free screening camps to locate and treat new cases.

Diabetes is the most prevalent preventable disease within India and represents nearly 70 percent of the cases found in the South-East Asian region. AIMS' Department of Endocrinology in collaboration with the Amrita Diabetes Welfare Society is dedicated to increasing awareness of the disease and to providing free insulin for economically disadvantaged patients. The association organizes regular medical camps to promote preventive measures.

Pain and Palliative Home Care

Started in 1999, this department provides loving medical care and psychological support to impoverished patients with terminal diseases. Doctors visit patients in their homes, supply medicines, counsel the families and supervise nursing care. 75,000 patients are treated annually - all free of charge.

Telemedicine

In 2002, AIMS established the first Telemedicine Center in Kerala in partnership with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The center allows medical information to be processed from remote centers throughout India via satellite. Telemedicine was used extensively to facilitate ETW relief work following the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.

AIMS also operates a Mobile Telemedicine Unit, the size of a city bus, bringing sophisticated medical care to remote areas. The charitable satellite hospitals of AIMS are all served with this telemedicine link. In 2008, the Mobile Telemedicine Unit was sent to Bihar by train to assist ETW flood relief operations.  On May 4, 2009, AIMS Telemedicine Center became part of the India's PAN-African telemedicine network, an initiative launched by the Government of India to ultimate provide affordable healthcare to all 53 nations of the African Union. Though this telemedicine network, AIMS doctors will provide specialized medical consultation to care centers and hospitals in Benin, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal and Seychelles.

Aims Hospital Specialized Disaster Response

AIMS provides specialized disaster response services. Its mobile emergency and telemedicine units and medical teams are mobilized within hours of a disaster. The AIMS team stays in the crisis area for as long as is necessary to provide stability. AIMS responds to viral outbreaks as well - in 2007, when the chikungunya epidemic broke out, AIMS outreach teams provided free treatment for 35,000 patients. For more on AIMS disaster response services, please see Disaster Relief.

Community Medicine Department

This department provides family-oriented health education, managing a rural health center in Njarakkal 25 kilometers from AIMS and an urban health center in Kaloor. The centers serve 200 people daily. Contracted by government agencies, the department has trained health-workers who work in the community counseling thousands of mothers from impoverished families. It has also trained 200 tribal villagers in basic nursing, enabling them to promote health and hygiene in their villages. Through the Community Medicine Department, ETW student volunteers conduct seminars in schools and colleges focusing on reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, and drug and alcohol abuse.

AIMS features one of the most advanced hospital computer networks in India. The network supports more than 1300 computers and has computerised nearly every aspect of patient care including all patient information, lab testing and radiological imaging.

Mobile Medical Assistance

Every year AIMS conducts more than 100 free healthcare camps in remote, impoverished areas. Eye camps screen for cataract conditions. Patients are sent to AIMS for free operations.

AIMS Mobile Medical Assistance provides free medical care to remote tribal villages. The villagers are screened for serious diseases and given free medicines. Serious cases are referred to AIMS.