King Edward Memorial Hospital
IN Mumbai, India · multi-specialty
Trust Index 59 · Fair
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King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital is a large public municipal teaching hospital in Parel, Mumbai, run by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (BMC) and affiliated with Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College (GSMC). Founded in 1926, it treats patients largely free of cost or at heavily subsidized government rates rather than self-pay/international pricing, and publishes no procedure or health-checkup price list on its own site (www.kem.edu). It serves roughly 1.8 million outpatients and 85,000 inpatients annually and is recognized as one of India's designated Centers of Excellence for Rare Diseases.
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- Patient rating
- 3.7/5
- 1,851 Google reviews
- Trust Index
- 59/100
- Fair
- Data confidence
- 41%
- Partial · 25% verified
- Founded
- 1926
- 100 yrs
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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.
77% of the formula backed by data
- Trust Index 59 Our index 59/100 · vs 95 same-country hospitals · 4th percentile
- Profile completeness 41 Our index 41% · share of our profile verified vs modeled — informational, not scored
- Quality & reputation 67 ✓ Verified #20 in country (Newsweek/US-News) · 3.7★ Google · objective outcomes ≫ independent ranking ≫ patient reviews · 90th 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 94 ✓ Verified 1,800 beds · vs 84 sourced hospitals in the registry · 88th percentile
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
SourcedAddress, neighbourhood, and how long transit and airports take.
Acharya Donde Marg, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400012, India
Getting here
- Ambedkar Nagar 0.1 km · ~2 min (≈, OSM)
- Mint Colony 0.8 km · ~9 min (≈, OSM)
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (BOM) 10 km · ~15 min (≈, OSM)
Patient reviews
✓ Google · verifiedGoogle's published rating, put in context against how hospitals actually score.
1,851 Google reviews
Exceptional for a hospital
Top 10%
better than ~90% 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 3.7★ sits near the top of the range.
Rating is Google's, shown as reported (1,851 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 King Edward Memorial Hospital 3.7★ across 1,851 Google reviews — exceptional for a hospital, better than roughly 90% of hospitals on our worldwide rating benchmark.
Doctors, nurses & expertise
SourcedThe hospital's published headcount and capacity.
- Beds
- 1,800
- sourced
From the hospital's published figures. Nurse counts and training ratios will appear once sourced.
Independent signals
SourcedGovernment quality-inspection grades, independent accreditation/certification, and insurer networks — matched from public registries, not submitted by the hospital.
Specialty ranking
- Newsweek Specialized #125 world — Asia Pacific (2026) as of 2026 Source →
Ownership & governance
SourcedWho owns it and how long it's operated — from public records.
Corporate
- Established
- 1926 · 100 yrs✓
From public corporate records. Complaint rates and ethics signals will appear once independently sourced.
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, King Edward Memorial Hospital carries a BBB grade (#20 in India — World's Best Hospitals 2026), ranks #4 of 4 on our merit score (64).
| Metric | This hospital King Edward Memorial Hospital Mumbai | Medanta - The Medicity Gurugram | AIIMS New Delhi New Delhi | PGIMER Chandigarh Chandigarh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital gradeNewsweek in-country rank where ranked, else our merit score | BBB · 64 | AAA · 92 ★ | AA · 77 | AA · 77 |
| Newsweek rankWorld's Best Hospitals | #20 in country | #1 in country ★ | #2 in country | #3 in country |
| Patient ratingGoogle, sourced | 3.7★ | 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 King Edward Memorial Hospital
Straight answers from the data on this page — cost, accreditation, rating, and location.
How is King Edward Memorial Hospital rated?
King Edward Memorial Hospital has a 3.7-star Google rating from 1,851 reviews, and scores 69/100 (grade A) on our independent Trust Index, alongside its rank of #20 in India — World's Best Hospitals 2026. The Trust Index is one public formula applied to every hospital — the
What is King Edward Memorial Hospital known for?
King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital is a large public municipal teaching hospital in Parel, Mumbai, run by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (BMC) and affiliated with Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College (GSMC). Founded in 1926, it treats patients largely free of cost or at heavily subsidized government rates rather than self-pay/international pricing, and publishes no procedure or health-checkup price list on its own site (www.kem.edu). It serves roughly 1.8 million outpatients and 85,000 inpatients annually and is recognized as one of India's designated Centers of Excellence for Rare Diseases.
Where is King Edward Memorial Hospital?
King Edward Memorial Hospital is located at Acharya Donde Marg, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400012, India, Mumbai, India.
Traveling to Mumbai, 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
25% verified View verified onlyHow much of this profile is verified data — every section above carries a chip telling you where its numbers come from.
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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 Imported
- Safety & complications Modeled
- Accommodation & rooms Modeled
- Facilities & access Imported
- Insurance & payment Modeled
- Inclusive & accessible care Modeled
- Ownership & governance ✓ Verified
- Volume & outcomes Modeled
- International-patient mix Modeled
- Surgical team depth Modeled
- Specialties & clinical professions ✓ Verified
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 →