Even Hospital, Race Course Road, has secured accreditation under the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH) 6th Edition standards within its first year of operation. 

With this achievement, the hospital became the 9th in Bangalore to be accredited under NABH's 6th Edition standards, and the 59th to receive full NABH accreditation overall.

Unlike previous editions, NABH's 6th Edition marks a structural shift in how hospital quality is evaluated. While earlier editions largely measured whether the right processes were documented and followed, the new framework requires hospitals to demonstrate that those processes translate into better patient outcomes, stronger digital health infrastructure, and continuous clinical governance.

Even Hospital, Race Course Road, was evaluated across more than 570 parameters spanning patient safety, infection prevention, medication management, governance, clinical quality and operational excellence. 

The hospital said its proprietary Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system, AI-powered clinical governance platform, and managed care model were designed around this outcomes-first standard from the outset, rather than retrofitted to meet it. 

The EMR and governance platform digitally capture and audit each stage of the patient journey, from outpatient prescription to discharge summary, enabling real-time clinical oversight rather than retrospective compliance review.

A core requirement of the 6th Edition is demonstrating measurable, longitudinal improvement in patient outcomes. Even's managed care model follows patients after discharge and tracks Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), allowing the hospital to monitor recovery and long-term health outcomes beyond the point of discharge.

Over its first year, the hospital delivered 1,37,796 specialist consultations and tracked 1,255 hospital discharges. It supported more than 40,000 members through continuous, post-discharge care and helped avoid over 200 hospitalisations through early intervention.

The hospital maintained sub-1% unplanned readmissions among more than 1,000 claimants across insurance-linked care programmes, reduced average hospital stays by 40% relative to comparable benchmarks, and recorded zero post-operative infections across tracked surgical cohorts.

The accreditation also serves as validation for the company's expansion strategy, with Even set to launch four to five additional hospitals across Bengaluru over the next 12 months, using the NABH 6th Edition framework as the clinical and operational blueprint for each new facility from inception. 

Animesh Roy, CEO of Even Hospitals, said the NABH 6th Edition validates exactly that approach, as it recognises hospitals that can demonstrate better outcomes, stronger governance and continuous improvement rather than just better documentation. 

Roy called the accreditation an important milestone and validation that the systems the hospital has built are delivering better care for patients.