The Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Prasanthigram was inaugurated by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba along with former Prime Minister of India Sri. P.V. Narasimha Rao. The hospital as of today offers free tertiary care in seven specialties as described below:

Anesthesiology
The Department of Anaesthesiology was set up in 1991 November; all clinical departments are anchored to this speciality. Read more

Radiology
The department started its services on 22/11/1991 when X- ray radiographs were taken for patients who underwent Cardiac surgery on the inaugural day of the hospital. At that time the department was equipped with one 300 mA X-ray machine and one 100 mA portable X-ray machine. Read more

Nuclear Medicine
The  department  was  inaugurated  on 22nd  November, 1994 by the divine touch  of  Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai  Baba  switching on the  state of the art  single head  Siemen’s  DIACAM gamma camera  with  Single Photon Emission Computed  Tomographic  capability. Since then it  is  serving  the patients referred from various departments of the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Prasanthigram and Sri Sathya Sai General Hospital, Prasanthi Nilayam. Read more

Laboratory
The Department of  Hospital Laboratory Sciences  at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Prasanthigram, had its inception in 1991 to support the in patients with a wide range of Laboratory investigations necessary for patient care (diagnosis and treatment). Since then it has served the hospital as one of the most essential sections of the hospital. It consists of departments of clinical services, biochemistry, microbiology and transfusion services.Read more

Blood Bank
The blood bank attached to the hospital provides blood to all the patients undergoing surgery by bleeding voluntary donors only. Read more

Medical Records
Electronic Health Records (EHR) was started in our Hospital on November 23, 1991 with the opening of the hospital with a simple file server and network running a Dos based EHR. In the year 1996, windows based software was introduced with servers. In the year 2007 Enterprise Hospital Information Systems (eHIS ) was introduced. Read more

Dietary
The Dietary Services of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Prasanthigram commenced functioning from the inception of the Hospital i.e. 22nd November, 1991. Read more

Patient Correspondence Cell
Patient Correspondence Cell (PCC) is functioning in this institute to facilitate the poor and needy patients who are residing far away with a dual purpose to inform them about the departments available in this hospital and procedure to be adopted to get treatment here. Read more

Hospital Management Information Systems
The IT department was started in SSSIHMS in December 1991.   It was started with one server with 1GB disk space and 10 terminals. The server was running Novell Netware 3.11 operating system and clients used DOS 5.0.   The application used to maintain the hospital data was based on Foxpro 2.5 for DOS. Read more

Welfare Society
The Welfare Society (WS) was formed at the instance of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba in  February 1995 with the broad objectives of... Read more