Has a history of seven decades of service. It was started on 9th Feb 1936 as a small dispensary with one doctor, one compounder , a nurse cum mid wife and a ward boy. At that time the inhabitance of Angamaly was struggling to have some facility for medical aid even at times of extreme necessity. When all the other attempts failed they appealed to the Archbishop of Ernakulam and he asked the parish priest of Angamaly to start a dispencery under the auspices of the Archdiocese.This fact is of at most importance regarding the conducting of the hospital.

It was started because of the felt need from the part of the people and not as a profit making concern. This aspect is being respected throughout. Even when it grew into a hospital with 800 beds, and 22 departments, some of them of global reputation, the need of the people were given priority.