Cloudnine Hospitals

Cloudnine Hospitals was co-founded by neonatologist Dr. R Kishore Kumar. Seeing crowded, unhygienic government hospitals and poorly-run private nursing centres in the country, Dr. Kumar and his team of three co-founders decided to focus on providing quality newborn care. Dr. Kumar, who spent many years working overseas in the area of infant care, bootstrapped the new venture.[8]

Cloudnine Hospitals specializes in comprehensive maternity services with complete antenatal and postnatal care, preferred or medically-required delivery options, gynaecological services for women of all ages, paediatric care, critical case management, minimally invasive surgeries, fertility services, and stem cell banking.[9]

A pregnant woman can receive services of lactation counselors, Lamaze therapists, and nutritionists set in facilities that offers 4D scans, and foetal anomaly studies. Cloudnine Hospitals is specialized in foetal medicine units to monitor high risk pregnancies by focusing on the special needs of the baby and performing interventions, if needed, whilst in the womb.[10]

Cloudnine Hospitals’ paediatric care involves a team of experts across dermatology, neurology, cardiology and developmental paediatrics.[11]

In May 2011, Matrix Partners invested Rs. 45 crores in Cloudnine Hospitals in the first round of funding.[12][13] In 2013, Sequoia Capital invested ₹100 crore in a second round of funding in Cloudnine Group of Hospitals.[14] In December 2015, True North invested ₹400 crore for a minority stake in Cloudnine Group of Hospitals.[15] In 2015, Matrix Partners sold a part of its holding for Rs 150 crore.[16]

In January 2016, Cloudnine partnered with Masimo, a global non-invasive technology provider, to install a technology that’ll help screening for Critical Congenital Cyanotic Heart Diseases (CCCHD) in babies in all its facilities.[17] In March 2016, Cloudnine Group of Hospitals and Practo entered into a collaboration to create awareness on women’s health issues, especially among working mothers.[18] Cloudnine Group of Hospitals is also involved in clinical research with Stanford University, California, and Notre Dame University, Australia, to provide the care as per international standards and also as per evidence-based medicine.[19] Cloudnine Hospitals has tied-up with public health centers, and corporates to raise awareness about proper breastfeeding practices, and other social empowerment initiatives.[20] Cloudnine Hospitals has also collaborated with Patient Safety Movement Foundation, an American organization, to create awareness on safety of patients in hospitals.[21]