Ms. Punitha Singh is the AVP – Nursing in HCG Group Hospitals. Previously she had worked as the Nursing Director and Head of Clinical Quality - at Health Care at Home (HCAH), as the Corporate head of nursing at Manipal Hospitals Group, Director of Nursing Services at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai. She had completed her B.SC in Nursing from CMC, Vellore, PG in Nursing Administration from Chennai, and MBA in Hospital Management from Anna University, Chennai. She is the recipient of various awards like the Award of Excellence from Dy. Premier Health Minister – Queensland, Australia for Outstanding services. Awarded 1st place by NHRD (National Human Resource Development) for planned Nursing Induction by reducing attrition, AHPI award for Nursing Excellence, Best Conference Advisor.
She has published many papers in international peer-reviewed indexed journals. She redesigned the designations of the nursing workforce and earmarked their roles and responsibilities, developed and displayed a written table of organization depicting the positions of the nursing department, channels of communication, and the relationship of the nursing department with other departments, developed acuity tool based on the NABH 5th edition requirement and implemented it successfully, created the Nursing manual exclusively for Oncology hospitals, developed Nurse led PICC line program across HCG hospitals.