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Apollo Group’s Apollo Connect program bets big on expanding access and elevating care

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Aims to build the largest connected healthcare ecosystem in India

National, August 28, 2023: Apollo, the world’s largest integrated healthcare provider, today announced a pan-India expansion of their one-of-a-kind connected care program, Apollo Connect. With this, Apollo aims at creating the largest connected healthcare ecosystem in India, empowering hospitals and nursing homes across metros & non-metros to offer holistic and superior patient care. To create significant benefit for this connected care partner network, Apollo Connect has rolled out services like eICU, diagnostics, surgical consultations, remote monitoring, clinical & quality training as well as accreditation support across India.
By building a robust connected care partner network through collaborations, Apollo Connect aims to strengthen the healthcare ecosystem in India by improving last mile patient access, affordability and experience. Through this program, Apollo’s partner hospitals will be able to enhance the services they offer patients, achieve superior clinical outcomes, improve patient retention, save costs and strengthen business performance. Apollo Connect, further promises to provide neighbourhood hospitals and nursing homes the ecosystem support to help patients get access to quality healthcare they need, closer to home, and reduce the financial burden of travel and logistics.
Commenting on the vision of the program, Dr Prathap C Reddy, Founder & Chairman, Apollo said, “As care providers the imperative for us is to collaborate and support each other to ensure no sick person goes untreated for lack of access to quality care. It is with this commitment that we have created the Apollo Connect program, an initiative towards building healthcare together, by bringing healthcare providers on one platform to provide superior care and keep patients closer to home. Having built and run India’s largest hospital chain, we understand the healthcare realities and challenges, and have designed Apollo connect to aid hospitals and nursing homes to improve their operational and business efficiency through exceptional service support from Apollo. Collaboration is an immensely powerful tool, and we believe that by coming together, we can truly strengthen India’s healthcare ecosystem and ensure every individual gets the right support they need.”
For the past two years, Apollo has been piloting Apollo Connect with specialty hospitals and nursing homes pan-India and has seen immense success across the board – for instance, a super specialty hospital in Moradabad has set up their own in-house laboratory in collaboration with Apollo diagnostics, a multispecialty hospital in Chhattisgarh has increased ICU occupancy by 50% in partnership with Apollo’s eICU service; a super specialty hospital chain in Bangalore is able to take on more complex emergency cases through frequent training and consults from Apollo’s critical care team.
Dr. Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Apollo, said, “Since inception, we have been committed to making India healthier by building and providing the best healthcare solutions. Apollo Connect for us is one more step in that direction where we help patients get access to quality healthcare as close to them as possible, including but not limited to emergency care, diagnostics, remote monitoring as well as surgical consults among others. Every hospital and nursing home is an opportunity for the healthcare ecosystem to reach more patients and save more lives. We are confident that by empowering these institutions, we will be able to build a world class healthcare system in India where everyone has access to superior facilities and opportunities for the best treatments. We truly believe in the power of the ecosystem coming together and we’re set to go the extra mile to make this a reality.”
Apollo Connect offers its partner hospitals multiple services across four key areas of benefits – Boosting revenues and saving costs, strategic business support, providing superior care guidelines to aid patient retention and training & mentoring programs and courses.

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Almonds in your daily diet can be a great way to start the year on a healthy note

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Step into a healthier year, with a handful of almonds

11 January 2021, India: The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to bring about changes to your lifestyle routine as there’s something exciting about starting afresh. Take advantage of that extra dose of motivation and try adopting habits that can create the most positive impact to your health and happiness, this New Year.
As many people continue to work from home and children attend school via virtual classes in the New Year, it’s more important than ever to take on and stick to the resolution of adopting a healthier lifestyle. If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it’s that we can change our lifestyle and habits. Modifying dietary habits has the power to reduce risk of chronic diseases and what we eat is significant to our health, leading to a lifestyle that will keep you feeling energized, satisfied, happy, and safe from diseases.
Healthy snacking and including almonds in your daily diet can be a great way to start the year on a healthy note. Almonds are a good source of vital nutrients like vitamin E, magnesium, good fat, dietary fibers and plant protein. As we step into 2021, let’s resolve to make one small yet positive change to our family as well as our lives and include a handful of almonds to the diet every day, which can go a long way in building overall health.
Leading Bollywood actress Soha Ali Khan said, “The beginning of a New Year is always exciting as we get to start off on a blank slate and chalk out our resolutions and goals for the future. While setting resolutions, I personally don’t think of a long term and distant goal, I tend to set an immediate plan that I can start right away. My resolution for the year, is to omit all unhealthy snacks from my family and my diet. To ensure this, I plan on upturning our pantry, and replacing any unwholesome options with healthy foods like almonds. Almonds are known for their satiating properties, and also provide energy, which makes them a healthy yet tasty treat. Besides that, almonds are known to contain a variety of important nutrients because of which they offer the goodness of health in every bite.”
Fitness Expert and Celebrity Master Instructor, Yasmin Karachiwala commented, “As a pre or post workout snack, almonds are a great snacking option as they provide a good dose of health and energy – without adding unwanted calories. With the end to the holidays and beginning of a New Year, it’s time to realign goals and get back into shape. We all know the importance of regular exercise and the value it adds to our overall health – whether it’s in supporting weight loss, or relieving stress, enhancing the mood or helping to better manage several lifestyle diseases. However, diet and exercise go hand in hand and you cannot adopt one healthy habit and trade it off with another, such as unhealthy eating. So, I am starting the New Year with a resolution to push myself to be fitter this year, and I urge others to do so to. Begin 2021, with a solid fitness and diet regime in place, and be sure to fuel your exercise routine with a handful of almonds.”
Sheela Krishnaswamy, Nutrition and Wellness Consultant said, “2020 was a different year for most of us and everyone dealt with it uniquely, but if there was one thing that was common across most households in India through the year it would definitely be an increased focus on snacking and binge eating. But as we step into the New Year, it’s important to leave behind habits that had an adverse impact on our health, and chronic munching is definitely one of those. So, in 2021, offer your snacking palate a cleanse, and instead of munching on oily or fried food, snack on healthy foods like almonds, fresh fruits, steamed sprouts, etc. Almonds are known to provide a bouquet of health benefits ranging from supporting weight and diabetes management, to promoting heart health and glowing skin, which will definitely add to your overall health and well-being in the longer run.”
Not sure what you’re waiting for, kick-off 2021 with a pledge to get healthier, fitter, and happier!

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