Narayana
Bengaluru - Institute of Cardiac Sciences one of 200 top specialized
cardiac hospitals

CAYMAN
ISLANDS (October 27, 2020) –
The flagship hospital of the Narayana Health Group, the parent
company of Health City Cayman Islands, has been counted among the top
200 hospitals for cardiology in the world by Newsweek
magazine.

Narayana Bengalaru –
Institute of Cardiac Sciences is situated in NH Health City
Bangalore. This super-specialty cardiac hospital is one of the
largest in the world and is Joint Commission International (JCI) and
National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers
(NABH) accredited. Narayana Health is one of India’s largest
private healthcare systems.

The Bangalore
facility was included under the “World's Best Specialized
Hospitals” section in the 2021 edition of the Newsweek
“World’s Best Hospitals” list, which is a partnership with
global market research and consumer data firm Statista Inc. The list
was first published in 2019, and the rankings are adjudicated by a
“Board of Global Experts”, which is described by Newsweek
as “an independent body that is tasked with the continuous
development of the quality and scope of the project”.

The 2021 edition of
the list is the first to include rankings for various medical
specialties, including the best hospitals in cardiology, oncology and
endocrinology. Each list includes a ranking of the 50 best global
hospitals, while ranks 51 to 200 are sorted alphabetically.

In her foreword to
the list of specialty hospitals, Newsweek Global
Editor-In-Chief Nancy Cooper said “If you or a loved one needs
specialized care in one of those areas, as millions of us do, you
want to know which hospitals or medical centers have state-of-the-art
facilities and the most knowledgeable, accomplished physicians. Where
will you have access to the best diagnosticians, highest level of
care and most effective treatments? We're proud to offer our readers
these independent, authoritative and reliable Newsweek/Statista
rankings.”

Health City Cayman
Islands Clinical Director and Chief Cardiothoracic & Vascular
Surgeon Dr. Binoy Chattuparambil said, “That the flagship hospital
of our parent company – Narayana Health, has received this
recognition is testament to the high quality standards upheld by the
entire NH group of hospitals, and underscores the dedication and
vision of group Chairman Dr. Devi Shetty and the legion of doctors
who have trained under his tutelage and guidance. It is Dr. Shetty’s
mission, to make the highest quality of specialized medical care
accessible and affordable for as many people as possible around the
globe.”

Dr. Shetty, a
renowned heart surgeon and humanitarian, is the Founder of Health
City Cayman Islands, which opened its doors in 2014 to bring his
vision of compassionate, high-quality, affordable healthcare services
offered in a world-class, comfortable, patient-centered environment
to the Western hemisphere.

Health City Cayman
Islands Chief Business Officer Shomari Scott said, “Here at Health
City Cayman Islands, we are proud to be part of an organization that
upholds the highest standards as recognized by independent parties of
the caliber of Newsweek and Statista. Many people around the
globe look to the United States as setting a benchmark for medical
excellence, so it is great to see us judged by international experts
to be on par with these standards, and indeed among the best
globally. Locally, we will continue to provide the Cayman Islands
with the highest quality of health care. In the current situation
with our borders still largely closed, we hope to give local patients
peace of mind that the best, world-class medical care is available
right here at home without the need to travel overseas.”

The Narayana
Bengalaru – Institute of Cardiac Sciences is equipped with 16
dedicated cardiac operation theatres and six digital catheterization
laboratories (cath lab), one if which is a hybrid cath lab where both
interventional cardiac procedures as well as complex heart surgeries
can be performed.

Narayana Institute
of Cardiac Sciences specializes in complex cardiac surgeries and
performs heart surgeries on both adults and children, boasting an
eighty-bed dedicated pediatric cardiac Intensive Care Unit that is
the largest in the world.

In her foreword, Cooper said, “If you
were asked to name the world's best hospitals, you might well have
mentioned the Mayo Clinic, Massachusetts General and the University
Hospital, Zurich. You might not have thought of the Sheba Medical
Center near Tel Aviv, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm or
Singapore General. But the researchers and experts who help build
this authoritative list are keenly aware of what's going on in
hospitals around the globe, and they can, with confidence, identify
the ones that set the standard for excellent care.”

The rankings are
based on peer recommendations for specific areas of expertise from a
global survey of medical professionals. The global board of medical
experts which reviews the rankings is tasked with providing quality
assurance by validating the preliminary hospital rankings, as well as
providing input on possible improvements and expansions of the
current methodology. This includes input regarding new data sources
and improvements to the scoring algorithms as well as the expert's
opinion on the best hospitals in specific medical fields.

The members of the
board of experts were chosen based on their national and
international expertise; experience in their respective medical
fields; and their scientific output.

Current members of
the board of experts are Prof. David Bates, Professor of Medicine at
Harvard Medical School, and a Professor of Health Policy and
Management at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Dr.
Gary Kaplan, chairman and CEO of the Virginia Mason Health System in
Seattle since 2000 and a practicing internal medicine physician at
Virginia Mason; Dr. Eyal Zimlichman MD, MSc,

Deputy Director
General, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Innovation Officer at Sheba
Medical Center, Israel's largest hospital; Prof. Christoph A. Meier
M.D., Chief Medical Officer and deputy CEO at the University Hospital
Basel; Prof. Gregory Katz, Chaired Professor of Innovation &
Value in Health at the University of Paris School of Medicine; and
Dr. med. Jens Deerberg-Wittram, Chief Executive Officer and President
of RoMed, a German non-profit health system and founding President of
the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM).

Newsweek is a
prominent international news magazine and website that has been
publishing for over 80 years. According to its website, Newsweek
“provides the latest news, in-depth analysis and ideas about
international issues, technology, business, culture and politics”.

In addition to its
online and mobile presence, Newsweek publishes weekly English
print editions in the United States, Europe/Middle East/Africa and
Asia as well as editions in Japanese, Korean, Polish, Serbian and
Spanish.

Statista Inc is a
leading data and business intelligence portal which conducts
international market and consumer studies as well as surveys. The
company’s business model is "data as a service" and the
company provides its users with access to databases on over 80,000
topics from more than 22,500 sources and makes it available on four
platforms: German, English, French and Spanish.

Statista’s annual
Global Consumer Survey analyses the consumer behavior and media usage
of 700,000 consumers from 55 countries, who were surveyed about 50
topics and 6,500 brands. Founded in Germany in 2007, Statista has
about 900 employees at twelve office locations on four continents.

View the full list at: https://www.newsweek.com/worlds-best-specialized-hospitals-2021

About
Health City Cayman Islands

Health
City Cayman Islands, the vision of renowned heart surgeon and
humanitarian Dr. Devi Shetty, is supported by Narayana Health, one of
India’s largest private healthcare systems. Health City, only the
second hospital in the Caribbean to receive the Joint Commission
International's "hospital accreditation", provides
compassionate, high-quality, affordable healthcare services in a
world-class, comfortable, patient-centered environment. Offering
healthcare to local, regional and international patients, Health City
Cayman Islands delivers excellence in adult and pediatric cardiology,
cardiac surgery, cardiac electrophysiology, medical oncology,
orthopedics, sports medicine, pediatric endocrinology,
gastrointestinal, hepatic, pancreatic, biliary and bariatric surgery,
neurology, interventional neurology and neuro-diagnostics,
neurosurgery, minimally invasive spine surgery, gynecology, urology,
pediatric allergies, colorectal surgery, dental, sleep lab and
pulmonology services.

For
further information, visit www.healthcitycaymanislands.com