Bangalore Baptist Hospital (BBH) was started as an outpatient clinic in a makeshift building, for rural Bangalore, in 1973. Today it is a 340 bed multispecialty mission hospital serving all socio-economic strata of the society and leading the way in quality healthcare in the country. BBH is the first mission hospital in India to be accredited with NABH and NABL. To enable quality healthcare, the hospital conducts many medical, nursing and allied health services educational programs at undergraduate and post-graduate levels. The hospital is governed by Christian Medical College, Vellore, since 1989.