The Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS Group of Hospitals) is an Indian multi-speciality hospital chain. It was founded by Dr. Bhaskar Rao Bollineni in 2000 in the city of Nellore. Currently, the KIMS Group of Hospitals operates 25 hospitals across the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Kerala, and Karnataka. The KIMS Group of Hospitals is certified by NABH and NABL. It is listed on BSE and the NSE.
Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS Group of Hospitals) is an Indian multi-speciality hospital chain that operates a network of hospitals across several states in southern and western India. The hospital group was founded in 2000 by cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Bhaskar Rao Bollineni, who opened the first hospital in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh with approximately 200 beds. The group has subsequently expanded its network to include multiple hospitals under the KIMS Hospitals brand with a combined capacity of over 8,300 beds.
In 2002, the group established another hospital in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, and in 2004, it opened its flagship facility in Secunderabad, Telangana, which has grown to a capacity of approximately 1,000 beds and serves as the headquarters of the hospital chain. The group expanded further throughout the 2000s and 2010s, adding hospitals in various cities including Srikakulam, Kondapur, Ongole, Visakhapatnam, Anantapur, and Kurnool.
KIMS Hospitals received the Association of Healthcare Providers India (AHPI) Award in the Patient-Friendly Hospital category in 2017. In 2021, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences launched its initial public offering (IPO) and became a publicly listed company on the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).
Throughout the 2020s, the group continued expanding its geographic footprint, adding new hospitals in states such as Maharashtra, Kerala, and Karnataka, including facilities in Nagpur, Nashik, Kannur, Kollam, Sangli, Thane, and Bengaluru.
As of 2026, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences operates a network of multi-specialty hospitals across five Indian states: Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Kerala and Karnataka, with a combined bed capacity exceeding 8,000 beds.
Notable hospitals in the network include:
The group has also announced plans for future expansion, including proposed super-specialty hospitals in other major Indian cities, as part of its long-term growth strategy.
Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS Group) offers a comprehensive range of healthcare services through its network of hospitals, providing integrated, multi-disciplinary care with a focus on tertiary and quaternary healthcare delivery.
The group provides medical and surgical services across more than 25 specialties and super-specialties, including cardiac sciences, oncology, neurosciences, gastroenterology, orthopaedics, organ transplantation, renal sciences, and mother and child care.
KIMS also delivers care in other domains such as pediatric cardiac services, perioperative care for gastrointestinal and liver transplants, and general pediatrics, among others, through dedicated specialty teams at its hospitals.
Across its network, the group emphasizes the use of advanced medical technology and multidisciplinary clinical protocols to support complex procedures, critical care, emergency care and chronic disease management.
KIMS Hospital has infrastructure to support organ transplantation and has created an organ donation swap registry. In 2019, KIMS Secunderabad recorded 1,000 kidney transplant surgeries. In a first of its kind procedure in India, KIMS Hospitals Lung Transplant Doctors successfully performed a double lung transplant surgery on a COVID-19 patient.
The KIMS Heart and Lung Transplant team has performed 12 Covid Double Lung transplants and overall 50 Lung and Heart transplant procedures between September 2020 and April 2021.
This is by far the highest number of procedures performed at a single healthcare institute in Asia in the past eight months as far as COVID Double Lung Transplants are concerned.
KIMS Group of Hospitals are one of the first few hospitals in India to focus on robotic surgeries and they set up South India's first robotic facility. In 2011, they performed the first robot-assisted colorectal surgery in India. The hospital performs robotic surgeries for oncology, gynaecology, urology and gastroenterology.
In 2017, the cardiology department held the 13th annual Cardiology Update programme. In 2019, the orthopaedic department held a course on knee replacement for orthopaedic surgeons across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The hospital also conducted a Lupus Awareness Ramp Walk and Deep Vein Thrombosis Awareness Walk in 2019. In 2019, they also held a conference on bone marrow transplant in paediatrics.