The Lifeline Group of Hospitals has signed an MoU with the University of Findlay, Ohio USA, to provide an MBA course in Hospital Management. With growing need for professionally trained healthcare personnel India, there is need to focus on quality and system efficiencies in healthcare deliverance. The international hospital management courses provided by the University of Findlay will become a consequential part of the Indian Healthcare system.

The University of Findlay, established in 1882 in Ohio introduced their first MBA programme in 1993. It was one of the early birds to use the Internet as a medium to deliver courses to students online offering four different concentrations, namely; Healthcare Management, Organization Leadership, Hospitality Management and Public Administration. Keeping an increase of approximately 0.8 per thousand doctors and 2 per thousand nurses, India would still need two lakh doctors and five lakh nurses in the immediate future. This apart there is an immediate requirement of over two lakh healthcare management personnel. These statistics prove the need for an efficient and specialised course designed specially keeping the industry needs in mind.

This MBA programme will be a two-year master's degree offered online. Lifeline will provide the infrastructural support for this programme and also provide support to the university's faculty during all its contact programmes. The course will first be open to Lifeline staff and also be extended all over Tamil Nadu. Students who have completed their graduation or postgraduation in either the science, pharmacy or medicine streams are eligible for this course. Students would do their work at their own pace and time of their own choosing. The university would offer one/two courses per term starting from January 2011