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Christian Medical College Vellore was started as a one-bedded clinic-cum-dispensary in 1900 by Dr. Ida Sophia Scudder, the daughter of second-generation medical missionaries. Today, this healthcare organization of international repute includes a network of primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary care hospitals, with around 3844 beds spread across six campuses in and around Vellore, and in the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh. The main hospital is situated in the 19-acre Town Campus (earlier referred to as the Thottappalayam Campus) in the heart of Vellore town. The hospital complex is the site for clinical training for all the students. The vast majority of the clinical departments are located on the hospital campus. From April 2016 to March 2017, the hospital, which has close to 2500 beds, received more than 21 lakh outpatients, more than a lakh inpatients and recorded more than 14, 500 births.