The philosophy of the Apollo Hospitals Group – Department of Dietetics is to establish and encourage good nutritional practices and standards as an integral part of the health care provided. Being patient-centric is not a goal, it is the core of our existence.

Objectives of Our Department

• To provide the highest quality nutrition care and dietetic services
• To advance practice of clinical nutrition including developing specialist dietetic teams within the department
• To develop effective therapies and new treatments, using evidence-based practice and
• To educate future Dietitians and other healthcare providers.

Our Team

We have over 180 qualified Clinical Dietitians in our group to sustain quality in clinical nutrition practice. We recruit only Masters in Clinical Nutrition with 6 months internship from a multispeciality hospital for Clinical Dietitian at the entry-level.

Quality improvement initiatives

We pride ourselves on our commitment; single-minded passion and going the extra mile to stay relevant and revolutionary in clinical nutrition, which has helped us adopt innovations and technologies as “an approach for quality improvement to benchmark our nutrition practices”.

• Department of Dietetics, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai enrolled as an Ambassador of ASPEN Malnutrition Awareness Week (MAW) 2023 to create awareness about hospital malnutrition among healthcare professionals and improve clinical outcome. 
• Apollo Hospitals, Chennai is the 1st Indian Hospital to initiate the Nutrition Steering Committee (NSC) to improve clinical nutrition practices in February 2022.
• Department of Dietetics, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai participated in Malnutrition Awareness Week (MAW) 2021 conducted by ASPEN. 
• Digitization of Dietetics department, Apollo Hospitals Group by automating the workflow with technology and innovation in the nutrition care process in the year 2018.
• Awarded the CMO Asia Health Care Excellence award for best quality initiatives by Department of Dietetics, Chennai for the project – New Multidisciplinary Coalition to combat hospital malnutrition: A Dietitian Led Quality Improvement Initiative which was held in Singapore in 2018.
• Nutrition Day World Wide – Apollo Hospitals Group across India have been participating in the nutrition Day survey annually since 2013.
• The 1st Indian Hospital to have received the Best of the Best award in the International Nutrition Survey (INS) 2011 for Critical Care Nutrition practices in which 183 ICUs participated.