BLK Hospital (Now BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital) was established in 1959 by Dr. B.L.K Kapoor, a leading physician and obstetrician and gynaecologist and inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
This hospital is accredited by Joint Commission International (JCI), National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH) and National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL).
It is one of the largest private tertiary care hospitals in India spread over 5 acres of land and has a capacity of 650 beds and 80 consultation rooms spread over two floors dedicated to OPD services.
Critical care units are equipped with monitoring devices, ventilators and dedicated isolation rooms, and each room is equipped with CRRT, SLED, endoscopy, bronchoscopy and dialysis facilities, to meet the direct need of the patient. .
With one of the largest critical care programs, the hospital has 125 ICU beds dedicated to surgical units, medical units, neonatal units, cardiac units, paediatric units, neurosciences, and organ transplants. In addition to that it has 17 state-of-the-art modular operation theatres equipped with the latest technologies including 3-stage air purification and a gas cleaning system.
The hospital contains various specialties and has 11 centres of excellence, headed by the best doctors and surgeons in India.
Among the centres are: Centre for Liver Transplant, Centre for Kidney Transplant, Centre for Heart Transplant, Centre for Bone Marrow Transplant, Cancer Centre, Centre for Chest and Respiratory Diseases, Centre for Child Health, Centre for Critical Care, Institute for Digestive & Liver Diseases, Heart Centre, Centre for Neurosciences, Institute for Bone, Joint Replacement, Orthopaedics Spine and Sports Medicine, Centre for Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery and Radiology & Imaging Institute
The hospital's bone marrow transplant centre is one of the largest in Asia and has assisted in the first unrelated donor transplant in Delhi.
Liver and kidney transplant intensive care units are fitted with individual HEPA filters, Veno-venous bypass system, and dedicated anaesthesia equipment.
One of the advanced technologies has been installed in the hospital including Cyber Knife VSI System Neuro Vascular BiPlane Cath Lab, PET CT Scanner, TriologyTx Linear Accelerator with cone beam CT (Radiation Oncology) and Bone Mineral Density Scanner among several others technologies.
