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Pushpagiri Medical College

medical college in Thiruvalla, Kerala

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ7261842 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pushpagiri Medical College is a 678-bed, multidisciplinary, speciality hospital in Thiruvalla, Kerala, India. It is administered by Thiruvalla Archeparchy of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. The hospital began as an eight-bed clinic in 1959 and was recognized as a teaching hospital in 2002. The hospital is certified by the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO) 9001:2000 standards and India's National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH).

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Pushpagiri Medical College” as medical college in Thiruvalla, Kerala. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 2002, 2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Pushpagiri, Medical and College can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as medical college in Thiruvalla, Kerala. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7261842. Authority coordinates are 9.382, 76.580. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959, 2002 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pushpagiri Medical College” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.