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# Dr Chaitanya Pathania on Tal

## Headline

Cluster Director \| Manipal Hospitals ITPL Whitefield & Varthur Road \| IIM Lucknow \| P&L \|Transformational Leadership\| EBIDTA Enhancement\| Service Exc \| Digital \| People Management \| Business & Process Enhancement

## About

Cluster Director with Leadership experience of more than a decade with primary responsibility being but not limited to Strategy , Managing operations, enhancing business , expanding clinical programmes and engaging customer experience at Manipal Hospitals\. As the Cluster Director at Manipal Hospitals, I am responsible for managing the daily operations, overall quality, and finances of 2 Hospitals 500 plus beds multispecialty Hospitals alongside 3 community Clinics , building medical programs and people, and ensuring patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes\. I have successfully turned around underperforming hospitals, increased revenue and efficiency, developed and implemented quality improvement initiatives, and established positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders\. I have also leveraged my MSc in Health Care Managembt UK , One year course at IIM Lucknow in addition my certifications in Digital Transformation and Hospital Eminence from IIM Bangalore to enhance my skills and knowledge in hospital management, Digital transformation & team building, and quality improvement\. My mission is to provide leadership direction and support with all stakeholder, learning from varied talent of the hospital across and to create a culture of excellence and innovation in healthcare delivery\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

deepseek

gemini

## Work experience

Cluster Director Whitefield, Bangalore at Manipal Hospitals \(MHEPL\), Apr 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, In the capacity as Cluster Director responsible for Manipal Hospital Whitefield and Manipal Hospital Varthur alongside 3 established community clinics\.

Hospital Director Manipal Hospital Yeshwantpur at Manipal Hospitals \(MHEPL\), Nov 2022 \- Present · 3 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Managing Hospital Operations , building medical programs and people with the P&L head responsibility\. Patient centricity on service and clinical outcomes being the most integral part of our job\.

Hospital Director Manipal Hospital Varthur Road, Whitefield at Manipal Hospitals \(MHEPL\), May 2021 \- Oct 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

General Manager \(Hospital Head\) at Columbia Asia Hospitals Pvt\. Ltd\., Oct 2018 \- Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leadership Role in Heading the P&L of 165 beded multispeciality hospital and being rensponsible for guiding & mentoring the unit operations in various aspects of revenue enhancement, business strategy, supply chain management, pharmacy, radio diagnosis, lab, physiotherapy, margin analysis, improvement of patient care ,business development, sales & marketing, enhancement of clinical programmes, talent acquisition, cost optimisation, statuary legal and compliance process, and have special interest in emerging opportunities\. More importantly my aim is always in finding solutions to achieve the desired outcomes and finding all possible ways to build a community connect in bringing recognition of the hospital at all levels in Bangalore\. Outcomes of great teamwork & successful implementing all above has led to a great turnaround of the unit and further grow at all fronts of Revenue & EBIDTA levels\. The unit has achieved many allocates of best unit of month / year & further recognition by its highest ever performances in P&L since inception\.

General Manager \(Hospital Head\) at Columbia Asia Hospitals Pvt\. Ltd\., Dec 2017 \- Sep 2018 · 10 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Headed the P&L Role of 100 bedded multispeciality hospital in gurgaon and successfully managed to Turn around the unit at all fronts in its operations which led to a great recognition and promotion to move to a larger unit in the organisation as seen above\.

Facility Director for 2 Hospitals at Fortis Healthcare, Oct 2015 \- Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos, South Delhi, Delhi, India, \- Headed 2 Small Hospitals of Fortis in leadership role in South Delhi and was instrumental in delivering on below areas with key highlights as follows: \- Highest ever revenue of the hospital in the in my tenure \- P&L accountability \- Highest ever EBITDA of the hospital in my tenure \- Cost control measures taken whilst keeping patient centricity of utmost importance\. \- Renegotiated contracts of the hospital services and brought down the costs –Hence EBITDA improvement\. \- Successfully Leading the team in strategic decisions and management of critical issues within the hospital \- Overall increased profitability of the hospital significantly from prior losses\. \- Actively strategizing the sales and marketing initiatives to enhance clinical excellence and overall business\. \- Dealing with senior clinicians on day to day basis\. \- AUDIT & COMPLIANCE\.\. \- Overlooking and monitoring Inventory and stock management \- P&l anaylsis of business levers \- Establishing processes and systems as per highest quality benchmarks \- Reviewing Patient care tracker and initiatives for customer delight\. \- Exploring innovative ideas of partnership/association with service providers to ensure maximum benefit to the organisation\. \- Building of medical programmes\. \- In addition in the past role I have been actively involved in Medical Administration

Manager Operations NCR B region with Sr\. Vice President Operations Fortis Health Care Ltd\. at Fortis Healthcare, Sep 2014 \- Sep 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Working closely with the Sr\. Vice President Operations\(Regional COO\) for day to day work across NCR region consisting of 10 hospitals with a revenue of 2000 cr\. Looking at increasing productivity of the various components / levers , whilst patient centricity of utmost importance\.Worked closely with all functional heads and hospital directors\. Worked with BCG and Mckeanzie teams for hospital projects on 360 degree revamp and value proposition\. Focus on increasing efficiencies in the hospital with the best of medical talent and world class healthcare facilities across\. Analysing Monthly financial buckets and P&L\. Coordinating various operation initiatives across all hospitals of NCR region\. Deriving all that takes to optimise costs and increase profitability\.

Assistant Medical Superintendent Fortis Hospital Vasant kunj at Fortis Healthcare, May 2013 \- Aug 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Assistant Practice Manager at NHS England, Aug 2012 \- Dec 2012 · 5 mos

## Education

One Year Advance program on Leadership in Digital Era, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Programme, Hospital Eminence Version 3\.0, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

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