Sankara NethralayaCentre for Quality Promotion Region: Tamil Nadu

Quality - The by word of our service

All patients receive the same care at our Hospitals. Trained and dedicated professionals with ready access to state-of-the art ophthalmic infrastructure render high quali-ty eye care without bias to both the paying and the poor and needy patients.

We ensure consistent quality by earnestly following systems and procedures meticulously and are the FIRST ISO 9002 certified Eye Hospital in Asia. We have also introduced Total Quality Management (TQM) policies and have been recently audited by BVQI who have recommend-ed re-certification to us.

The main hospital, the Jagadgu-ru Kanchi Sri Chandrasekaren-dra Saraswathi Nethra Nilayam (JKCN Complex) and the CU

Shah Sankara Nethralaya enjoy NABH accreditation, the highest recognition in the health care sector.

Thanks to innovative informa-tion technology devices, the expertise of Sankara Nethralaya is available to a large section of society. We shall continue to practice "non-commercial" medicine. We shall propagate and practice 'institutional prac-tice' - as it results in scientific practice and inculcates 'team work', shared responsibility and optimum utilization of available resources. We believe that collective functioning yields better results.

The concepts of Nethralaya are unique. Describing it as a “Privatized public sector" would be apt. But perhaps the best description of Sankara Nethra-laya would be the "Physical perception of a Divine will".

Sankara Nethralaya is a non – profitable tertiary eye care hos-pital started 4 decades back by Dr. S.S. Badrinath having 4 pillars as its Organizational objectives: To alleviate Eye care morbidity and treat patients with highest standards, to serve community with utter dedication, to provide training through systematic education and carryout India centric research in eye care manage-ment. The Main campus was NABH Accredited in 2011 and subsequently its other branch-es too.

On 3rd December 2017, Medi-cal Research Foundation, Medi-cal Research Foundation, San-kara Nethralaya, Nungambak-kam, Chennai was certified by The Consortium of Accredited Healthcare Organizations ( CAHO) as one of the Centres for Quality Promotion ( CQP) based on its Quality excellence in patient care and visible com-mitment to Quality promotion. As the first event of CQP, San-kara Nethralaya and CAHO conducted the first one Day Basic Certificate Program on Hospital Infection Control (appropriate for Entry Level NABH accreditation) for 45 Infection Control professionals from across the country.

The Advanced Certificate Program on Hospital Infection Control which is conducted by The Sankara Nethralaya Acade-my and Sankara Nethralaya is endorsed by The Consortium of Accredited Healthcare Orga-nizations (CAHO).