Option One
Build your own.
Capital-intensive, operationally complex, hard to staff. Machines, water plant, accreditation, technician hiring, vascular access programme, QA — three years of building before you have what AKC delivers on day one.
For Hospitals · Institutional Partnership
Your hospital. Our dialysis.
One institution to your patient.
Bring world-class dialysis inside your hospital — without the capital, without the operations, and without the clinical risk of building it from scratch. The patient relationship stays with you. The institutional apparatus comes from AKC.
The Quiet Problem Most Hospitals Have
You serve CKD patients.
But where do they go
when they need dialysis?
Every multi-specialty hospital in India serves chronic kidney disease patients — as outpatients, as cardiac comorbidities, as diabetics. What most hospitals do not have is a specialised dialysis unit good enough to keep those patients when they progress to end-stage renal disease. The choice is usually between three uncomfortable options.
Option Two
Refer patients out.
Clinically clean — but you lose them. Once a patient is on dialysis at another centre three times a week, that centre owns the longitudinal relationship. Their family's other care often follows.
Option Three
Partner well.
Bring a specialised dialysis institution inside your hospital. The clinical, operational, and capital burden stays with the partner. The patient and the relationship stay with you. If — and only if — the partner is the right one.
AKC exists, in part, to be the right partner. 250 centres, ten states, eighteen years. The operational playbook is mature. The clinical standard is audited. The institutional infrastructure is built. What remains is to see if there is a fit between your hospital and ours.
AKC partners with hospitals by taking on the specialised clinical, operational, and capital work that dialysis demands — so that the hospital can offer a world-class renal service to its patients without becoming a dialysis company itself.The Partnership Thesis
250+
Centres operated
across the network
across the network
14
Indian states
and growing
and growing
18
Years of operational
and clinical learning
and clinical learning
3
Partnership models
for different hospitals
for different hospitals
Three Partnership Models
One framework, three ways to fit.
Every hospital is different. Different capital appetite, different operational bandwidth, different existing infrastructure. AKC structures partnerships to fit the institution — not the other way around.
I.
Most common · Turnkey
Full-Service Operation
AKC operates the dialysis unit inside your hospital, end to end. We bring everything — machines, water plant, technicians, nephrology coverage, QA, EHR, accreditation. You provide space, infrastructure, and the patient relationship. Revenue is shared on an aligned model.You don't run a dialysis unit; you offer one.
Best forHospitals that want a specialised dialysis service without taking on the operational and clinical complexity themselves.
II.
Asset-light · Upgrade
Clinical & Technical Services
For hospitals that already have a dialysis unit but want to raise the standard. AKC provides clinical leadership, validated protocols, the QA framework, technician training, and access to the Axis EHR.The hospital owns and operates; AKC supplies the institutional brain.
Best forHospitals with an existing unit that needs upgrading to network-grade clinical and operational standards.
III.
Greenfield · Strategic
Joint Venture & Greenfield Builds
For hospitals planning major capital investment in renal care — a new transplant centre, a regional dialysis hub, an integrated renal service line. Joint capital, joint operations, joint clinical leadership. AKC's institutional expertise meets the hospital's resources and ambition.Landmark projects, jointly built.
Best forLarger hospitals and hospital chains undertaking strategic capital projects in renal care.
What AKC Brings to the Table
Eighteen years of institutional building —
delivered inside your hospital.
Whichever partnership model you choose, what you gain access to is not a vendor — it is an institution. Below is the apparatus that comes with every AKC partnership.
Clinical Leadership
A founding-clinician network and a curated bench of nephrology consultants — covering your unit, supervising protocols, available for complex cases.
The Operational Playbook
Eighteen years of running 250 centres distilled into SOPs for every aspect of unit operation — from scheduling to crash management to NABH audit readiness.
Axis — Nephrology EHR
AKC's purpose-built electronic health record. Every session captured, every measure tracked, every audit instantly possible. Audit-ready from day one.
The Indian Renal Data System
Your unit's patients become part of India's first comprehensive renal registry — contributing to research, policy, and benchmarking against the network.
QA & Accreditation Support
NABH-ready operations, ISO-aligned QA, structured water testing, equipment audits, and accreditation documentation — handled.
Dialysis Simplified
“Dialysis Simplified” brings together leading experts and practicing dialysis professionals through insightful lectures and case-based discussions, fostering knowledge-sharing, clinical learning, and research.
The AKC Brand
Eighteen years of patient trust, regulator relationships, insurance empanelment, and corporate tie-ups — flowing into the renal service your hospital now offers.
A Word About Boundaries
AKC enhances your hospital.
It does not replace it.
A common concern from hospital boards: will partnering with AKC dilute our brand, our patient relationships, or our commercial control? The honest answer is no — and the partnership is structured to make that explicit.
AKC Brings
The specialised renal apparatus — clinical, operational, technological.
- Nephrology clinical leadership and consulting bench
- Trained technicians and operational staff
- Dialysis machines, water plant, infrastructure
- Validated protocols and QA framework
- The Axis EHR and IRDS data infrastructure
- Procurement scale and operational playbook
- NABH accreditation support and audit readiness
- Network brand association and patient trust signal
Stays Yours
Your patients, brand, and institutional relationship.
- The patient remains your hospital's patient
- Your hospital's brand is the primary brand at the front door
- Outpatient, inpatient, and specialty referrals stay within your system
- Commercial control over insurance tie-ups and corporate empanelment
- Long-term strategic direction of the renal service line
- Your reputation, strengthened by association — not absorbed
Different Hospitals · Different Value
The same partnership, read differently from where you sit.
Private hospitals, mission hospitals, government institutions and corporate chains all bring different priorities to the same conversation. Here is what AKC offers each.
Private Multi-Specialty
The natural fit. You have CKD and diabetic patients in volume; you are losing them to specialised dialysis centres at the moment they progress to ESRD. AKC partnership stops the leakage — and adds clinical and brand credibility to your existing renal offering.
Corporate Hospital Chains
Multi-site partnerships at scale — standardised across the chain, AKC-managed, centrally audited. One partnership conversation, one set of protocols, one institutional brand. Renal care, solved at the group level.
Our partners
The hospitals that build kidney care with us.
Apex Kidney Care delivers dialysis hand-in-hand with India's leading hospitals, charitable trusts, governments and mission-driven investors. Together, these partnerships carry world-class kidney care to the communities that need it most.
Hospital partners
PD Hinduja
Dr. LH Hiranandani
Wockhardt
Medipolis
Healthway
250+ centres · 65+ partner hospitals · 14 states across India
The First Conversation
The right partnership begins with the right conversation.
Tell us about your hospital, your patient base, your existing renal infrastructure, and what a successful partnership would look like from your side. The first conversation is free, confidential, and without obligation — the structure follows the fit, not the other way around.
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