CHARUTAR HEALTH FOUNDATION CORP
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Mission Statement
To provide and prepare resources for modern and professional health-care to the community equitably.
About This Cause
The Charutar Arogya Mandal has registered a Charity in the US : “ Charutar Health Foundation Corp ”. The Charity is exempted under IRC Section 501(C)(3) Donors would be eligible to avail tax benefits through donations to our Charity under IRC Section 170. About Charutar Arogya Mandal : Charutar Arogya Mandal was set up in the year 1972 by the late Dr. HM Patel, India’s former Finance and Home Minister, to create an example of how the health-care needs of the rural community can be met. What has emerged over the years, is an institution that has created facilities and health-care infrastructure for a rural community that match with the best of those available to their urban counterparts and a network of educational institutions that graduate hundreds of health-care professionals. Starting with a small nursing school, the Mandal has added a host of educational institutions serving the field of medicine over the years, such as a Medical College, College of Physiotherapy, College of Nursing and an Institute of Medical Lab Technology. For patient care, its flagship Shree Krishna Hospital serves as Charotar’s largest and most well-equipped health-care facility. From its humble origin as a 136-bed facility 39 years ago, the teaching hospital (Shree Krishna Hospital) managed by the Charutar Arogya Mandal has grown to an 950-bed NABH accredited hospital today, which, equipped with state-of-the-art facilities renders professional services. It has been able to serve the community and live up to the credo, "Solace for the Suffering", envisioned by its founder Chairman. This has been made possible mainly due to the generous support of Trusts, Foundations and Donors who have assisted the growth of the institution at every stage and sound governance. Today, the hospital is considered one of the most well equipped rural health-care centres in Gujarat, with facilities such as Cardiac Centre, state-of-the-art Cancer Centre with 2 Linear Accelerators for radiotherapy, Bone Marrow Transplant, Trauma Centre, 160 ICU beds (which include the 102-bed Critical Care Centre), 28-bed Dialysis Centre, 20 Operation Theatres, NABL accredited labs, NABH accredited Blood bank, Diagnostics facility including a 3 Tesla MRI machine & CT-Scan, and a 24x7 Pharmacy, all located in a lush green 100 acre campus. Supporting the Community ---------------------------------------- What defines the Mandal today, however, is not its infrastructure or its facilities. Over 5,00,000 patients who come to the hospital annually for outdoor consultations, largely from the villages around, over 55,000 in-patients admitted to its various indoor services, and over 11,000 patients who undergo surgeries at the Hospital, experience health-care as it was always meant to be;humane, rational, efficient and affordable. As a policy: “Those who are indigent and not in a position to pay for their treatment are not turned away just because they cannot afford treatment costs”. They are provided uniform quality treatment alongwith those who can afford it. To make health-care affordable, for outdoor consultations, we offer free registration and medical advice. Under our Aashirwad services aimed to provide affordable health-care to the needy and indigent families, we offer to registered members at a nominal annual fees of Rs. 250 for a 4 member family, free in-patient services in 450 Aashirwad ward beds such as free stay, food, doctors/nurses' services, ward services, X-ray, Sonography, lab investigations & surgery. For this we have introduced the Aashirwad app where indigent families could get registered and automatically qualify to avail Aashirwad services. These registered members admitted in ICU could get up to 50% concession in investigation costs and would otherwise have to bear only the pharmacy costs. As the patients in this category bear the cost of pharmacy alone in the case of surgeries also, we have optimized those costs too. As a result, for a wide range of surgeries, what the patients pays ( refer table below) is just one-third to half of the surgery costs charged by other private hospitals. In addition, the Mandal collaborates with the Government for schemes such as Ayushmaan Bharat, Mukhyamantri Amrutam (MA) Yojana, & Chiranjivee Yojana. However, the reimbursement obtained under government schemes covers a small part of the overall treatment cost in most procedures. In addition, health-care services provided by us at the Secondary Health-care facility at Sevaliya and four extension centres also bring succour to the needy. The annual burden to the Mandal towards concessions and free-ships given to patients amounts to more than Rs. 40 crores annually mainly covering needy patients with Cancer, Cardiac diseases, malnourished women undergoing complicated deliveries, prematurely born & underweight neonates and accident victims. Many of the patients treated here would not have pursued treatment for their life-threatening ailments, had they not been supported by the Mandal and its Donors. Donations made to the Charutar Health Foundation Corp, (the Charity of the Charutar Arogya Mandal) based in US would be eligible for tax benefits under IRC Section 170.