The Nairobi Hospital

Opening its doors in 1954 as the European Hospital, the institution has grown from humble beginnings to a modern high-technology facility with more than 363 bed-capacity, six outpatient centers and a global medivac centre. In 1956, The Nairobi Hospital’s Cicely McDonnell School of Nursing was established. It was aptly named after Cicely McDonnell who had made immense personal contribution to the welfare and health Kenyans and set high professional standards for maternity nursing in Nairobi. Indeed, most graduates from the School of Nursing are absorbed into The Nairobi Hospital’s team. 

The combination of highly skilled medical specialists and modern medical and non-medical technology has placed the hospital in a position to undertake a wide range of routine and complex investigations and procedures including Open Heart Surgery, Kidney Transplants, Trauma Care, Orthopaedic Surgery, Neurosurgery, Laparoscopic Surgery, and Cancer Therapy among others. Today, The Nairobi Hospital is renowned for emergency and trauma care, disaster response and critical care and has excellent facilities for providing high-quality clinical and nursing care. The Anderson Specialty Centre opened in 2017 and has a variety of Specialty clinics including Orthopaedic, Well Baby and Executive Clinic.

The Nairobi Hospital is a pacesetter in medical practice in Kenya and has recorded several firsts locally and in the East and Central African region with milestones that include:
• First private nursing training college in Kenya.
• First institution to offer Diploma in Theatre Nursing.
• First hospital to fit a duo chamber pacemaker on a patient.
• First institution to offer hip replacement.
• First eye bank in East Africa.
• First complete video gastroenterology system.
• First human papillomavirus (HPV) i.e. cancer of the cervix testing.
• First tumour markers testing facility.
• First hospital enterprise resource management system.
• First brachytherapy centre.