Manipal Hospital Salt Lake
IN Kolkata, India · multi-specialty
Trust Index 66 · Fair
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Manipal Hospital Salt Lake is a private multi-specialty hospital in Salt Lake, Kolkata, part of the pan-India Manipal Hospitals chain. Unlike several sibling branches, its health-checkup location code (MSK) on the chain's branch-scoped booking portal (Life's On Manipal) redirects to the chain's separate city-level aggregator (mahi.manipalhospitals.com), which prices Kolkata as a whole city ("Final pricing varies by package and hospital") rather than this specific branch, so no branch-attributable price could be sourced this pass.
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- Patient rating
- 4.5/5
- 5,796 Google reviews
- Trust Index
- 66/100
- Fair
- Data confidence
- 25%
- Low · 13% verified
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MHI · Method 1.3 Methodology →One comparable score per hospital — each metric below is measured against the registry and weighted by the same public formula. Unsourced metrics are excluded, never guessed.
62% of the formula backed by data
"pi" = rated on incomplete public information
- Trust Index 66 Our index 66/100 · vs 95 same-country hospitals · 96th percentile
- Profile completeness 25 Our index 25% · share of our profile verified vs modeled — informational, not scored
- Quality & reputation 70 ✓ Verified #36 in country (Newsweek/US-News) · 4.5★ Google · objective outcomes ≫ independent ranking ≫ patient reviews · 99th percentile
- Accreditation — Not sourced — · current JCI ≫ independent bodies (Magnet/CAP/DNV) ≫ historical/on-record
- Price transparency — Not sourced — · separate pricing axis — informational, not scored in the quality grade
- Scale — Not sourced — · needs a sourced bed count
The composite is the weight-normalized mean of available metrics. The same method applies to every hospital in the registry. Machine-readable version below for models & crawlers.
Location & getting here
Being collectedAddress, neighbourhood, and how long transit and airports take.
Kolkata, India
Street address is being collected.
Patient reviews
✓ Google · verifiedGoogle's published rating, put in context against how hospitals actually score.
5,796 Google reviews
Exceptional for a hospital
Top 1%
better than ~99% of hospitals
A hospital's stars run far lower than shops or restaurants — reviews are written amid illness, big bills and stress, and unhappy patients review the most. The average hospital scores just 2.85★ on Google, so This hospital's 4.5★ sits near the top of the range.
Rating is Google's, shown as reported (5,796 reviews). The "top %" is an estimate from peer-reviewed hospital-rating studies (Canadian nationwide 2018–19, n=167, mean 2.85★; US hospitals, median 3.0★) — we score against the hospital distribution, not the naive 0–5 scale.
Patients rate Manipal Hospital Salt Lake 4.5★ across 5,796 Google reviews — exceptional for a hospital, better than roughly 99% of hospitals on our worldwide rating benchmark.
Compare hospitals in India
Our indexSide by side on what actually decides the choice — our grade, the Newsweek ranking, patient reviews, accreditation, and real verified prices. Best in each row marked ★.
Compared with 3 other India hospitals here, Manipal Hospital Salt Lake carries a BB grade (#36 in India — World's Best Hospitals 2026), ranks #4 of 4 on our merit score (61).
| Metric | This hospital Manipal Hospital Salt Lake Kolkata | Medanta - The Medicity Gurugram | AIIMS New Delhi New Delhi | PGIMER Chandigarh Chandigarh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital gradeNewsweek in-country rank where ranked, else our merit score | BB · 61 | AAA · 92 ★ | AA · 77 | AA · 77 |
| Newsweek rankWorld's Best Hospitals | #36 in country | #1 in country ★ | #2 in country | #3 in country |
| Patient ratingGoogle, sourced | 4.5★ ★ | 4.2★ | 4.3★ | 3.8★ |
| Accreditationindependent bodies | — | 2 independent ★ | JCI | — |
| Published pricesverified, comparable | — | — | — | — |
| From pricecheapest verified | — | — | — | — |
| Profile | You're here | Open profile | Open profile | Open profile |
Six decision metrics on the same public formula — our grade, the Newsweek ranking, patient reviews, accreditation and real verified prices. "—" means not yet sourced, never guessed. Best in each row marked ★. All hospitals →
Common questions about Manipal Hospital Salt Lake
Straight answers from the data on this page — cost, accreditation, rating, and location.
How is Manipal Hospital Salt Lake rated?
Manipal Hospital Salt Lake has a 4.5-star Google rating from 5,796 reviews, and scores 68/100 (grade A pi) on our independent Trust Index, alongside its rank of #36 in India — World's Best Hospitals 2026. The Trust Index is one public formula applied to every hospital — the
What is Manipal Hospital Salt Lake known for?
Manipal Hospital Salt Lake is a private multi-specialty hospital in Salt Lake, Kolkata, part of the pan-India Manipal Hospitals chain. Unlike several sibling branches, its health-checkup location code (MSK) on the chain's branch-scoped booking portal (Life's On Manipal) redirects to the chain's separate city-level aggregator (mahi.manipalhospitals.com), which prices Kolkata as a whole city ("Final pricing varies by package and hospital") rather than this specific branch, so no branch-attributable price could be sourced this pass.
Where is Manipal Hospital Salt Lake?
Manipal Hospital Salt Lake is located at Kolkata, India, Kolkata, India.
Traveling to Kolkata, India
Sourced Full India guide →India is a leading value medical-travel destination: foreign patients fly to JCI- and NABH-accredited private hospitals in Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad for cardiac surgery, orthopaedics, oncology and transplants at a fraction of Western prices, in English, supported by the world's largest generic-medicine industry. Chennai alone draws about 45% of the country's health tourists.
- Visa
- India offers an e-Visa to nationals of 160+ countries in tourist, business and medical categories; medical travellers apply for the e-Medical Visa specifically for treatment.
- Medical / long-stay visa
- The e-Medical Visa gives a 60-day stay with triple entry, extendable up to 6 months for long treatments via the FRRO/FRO; it requires an invitation letter from the treating hospital, and up to two e-Medical Attendant visas can be granted per patient.
- Arrival
- Apply online at indianvisaonline.gov.in at least 4 days before arrival (application window 120 days); e-Medical Visas are usually processed in about 3–7 working days.
- Currency
- Indian Rupee (INR, ₹)
- Languages
- Hindi and English are both official; English is widely used in international hospitals (India has 22 constitutionally-scheduled languages)
- Safety & recourse
- Take normal precautions · Limited recourse — use a medical-travel insurer
General guidance — confirm current rules for your nationality with official sources. Verified against: India e-Visa (official portal) · Ministry of Home Affairs — visa services.
Data & sources
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- Identity & location ✓ Verified
- Accreditation Not yet collected
- Published prices Not yet collected
- Languages Not yet collected
- Patient reviews ✓ Verified
- Staff & expertise Modeled
- Safety & complications Modeled
- Accommodation & rooms Modeled
- Facilities & access Modeled
- Insurance & payment Modeled
- Inclusive & accessible care Modeled
- Ownership & governance Modeled
- Volume & outcomes Modeled
- International-patient mix Modeled
- Surgical team depth Modeled
- Specialties & clinical professions Not yet collected
Every field is tagged by source state. "Verified" = sourced and checked; "Imported" = real data pending re-verification; "Modeled" = deterministic placeholder for this preview; "Not yet collected" = on our roadmap. Confidence feeds the Trust Index and the finder's verified-only filter. Methodology →
Reviews, staff, accreditations, awards, research and inclusive-care figures are aggregated or modeled from published signals for this preview; real registry, outcome and review data replace them before launch. How we model this →