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Vaatsalya Hospitals

last updated Sep 17, 2012

Overview

Legal Status: 
Private (for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2004
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%, 20-60% (lower to lower-middle)

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Out-of-pocket payments
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Other 3rd party (e.g. debt, equity)
Funders: 
Aavishkaar, Bamboo Finance, Seedfund

Scale

Personnel Employed: 
100<
Number of Facilities Operated/Networked: 
17 hospitals
Summary: 

Vaatsalya is a for-profit chain of hospitals and clinics which aims to provide quality healthcare to semi-urban and rural areas.

Program goals/rationale: 

While 70% of India is living in semi-urban and rural areas, 80% of our healthcare facilities are located in urban/metro areas. Vaatsalya is bridging this gap by building and managing hospitals/clinics in semi-urban and rural areas and bringing healthcare services where it is needed most. Its vision is to transform the quality of life in India by bringing affordable, efficient and friendly healthcare within the reach of the common man.

Key program components: 

Vaatsalya builds and manages hospitals/clinics in semi-urban and rural areas, providing primary and secondary care with an emphasis on prevention, offering services which can usually only be found in large cities at affordable prices.

Vaatsalya keeps costs down by specializing in three areas: pediatrics, gynecology and surgery. It also leases, rather than purchases, land for its hospitals and private rooms lack luxury items like cable television. Vaatsalya pays most of its doctors are consultants based on a revenue-sharing model, incentivizing them to work harder than they would at at a public hospital for the potential to earn higher pay.

The cost of a basic delivery at Vaatsalya is approximately $31.77. The cost of a caesarean birth is $105.90. Vaatsalya also accepts state and central insurance programs, including RSBY (Central government), Rajiv Arogyasri (operating in Andhra Pradesh), National Rural Health Mission & Janani Suraksha Yojana (for neonatal and maternal care), and others.

The company is planning to open 50 additional hospitals over the next five years.

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