Ashish Bhatia

Healthcare services in the country, both in the public and private sector are undergoing an era of transition for meeting the future needs. Though a lot of emphasis is being given on improvement of infrastructure and facilities, quality assurance and generating trained human resource, however, a wide gap is still being observed to fulfill the requirements to reach the national and international standards. In view of the above healthcare needs, Astron Group has been established as a comprehensive healthcare Consultancy organization focussing on hospital planning and design, quality and accreditation, academics in health care, public health and research. The planning and design vertical follows the concept of Design follows Function and provides services ranging from concept to commissioning of healthcare facilities be it a greenfield or brownfield projects and supports the organizations in equipment and manpower planning, due diligence and feasibility assessment of projects. The vertical on Quality and accreditation has been conceptualized by leading the team formulated for the development of NABH standards in the country with the undersigned being the Chairman of the National Task Force constituted for the formulation of NABH standards. The organization has been accredited by National Accreditation Board for Education & Training, Quality Council of India. In addition to having facilitated NABH accreditation of more than 200 healthcare settings in the country, Astron is humbled to submit being the sole consultancy organization to facilitate JCI accreditation (International accreditation) of more than 20 hospitals within the country and overseas. With the establishment of Astron Institute of Social Sciences, the group has ventured into healthcare academics and conceptualized the concept of participatory skill-building training programs through an innovative E-learning platform and also its Onsite Programs. For more info on this, visit www.astroninstitute.com.