Frontier Lifeline, Chennai

This 120 bedded super-specialty Hospital which started in 2004, has created a niche in cardio-care. Frontier Lifeline is one of the few centres in India which focuses on the treatment of children with congenital heart defects.

Significant Achievements Last Year

Frontier Lifeline, in association with Madras Anchorage Round Table 100, a community service organisation, has launched 'heart to heart' project to emphasise the need of cardio care in children by conducting free heart care camps for them. “The Hospital has also forayed into North-East India through its collaboration with the North-East Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) in Shillong, Meghalaya,” says Dr KM Cherian, Chairman and CEO. The agreement was made for the purpose of setting up an independent cardiac surgery as well as cardiology department and to NEIGRIHMS staff.

New Initiatives

The Hospital owns 'Frontier Mobile Cardiac Diagnostic Unit,' a customised vehicle fully equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and instruments for the accurate and timely diagnosis of cardiac anomalies. Frontier Lifeline has signed an MoU with the World Heart Foundation (WHF), a non-profit organisation headquartered in the US. The MoU empanels Frontier Lifeline to share technology and resources with the network organisations affiliated with WHF.

Adopting New Technologies

Frontier Lifeline has imported Sphygmocor Px Pulse Wave Analysis System from Australia. The system will non-invasively measure the central aortic blood pressure and stiffness of the central arteries, which was so far possible only through invasive procedures.

Dr R Prem Sekar, Interventional Paediatric Cardiologist at the Hospital has successfully conducted Balloon Pulmonary Valvuloplasty (BPV) on one day old premature baby. BPV is a non-surgical, catheter-based interventional procedure to manage babies with certain birth defects in the heart.

CSR

As a part of outreach programme, a team of cardiac specialists from the Hospital have traveled to Fiji and Guyana and helped to set up the Kids First Fund in Guyana and the Children's Heart Foundation at Fiji.

Six women from the nearby villages of Chennai are given training in technical aspects of stem cell, tissue culture, tissue engineering and bio-technology from the Hospital. The Hospital has set up 'Frontier Lifeline Telemedicine Network Foundation' in its tertiary care rural Hospital in Parumala, Kerala. It offers the benefits of quality cardiac care at the door step of the rural population through telemedicine.

Long-term Vision

Frontier Lifeline is coming up with Frontier Mediville, a fully integrated medical village, on the outskirts of Chennai. On the vision of Frontier Lifeline, Dr Cherian says "Healthcare is an industry, but care of the sick is not an industry."