St. Thomas Hospital, Chethipuzha, Changanassery is a health care institution owned and run by the Archdiocese of Changanaseri, started in 1953 by Archbishop Mar Mathew Kavukattu. Now the hospital grew from 20 beds in the beginning to 400 beds distributed in 12 wards, some of which are general wards and the rest are semiprivate and private rooms and 38 doctors and 24 departments with CT scan, Doppler scan, Ultrasound scan, EEG, Endoscope and several other modern facilities. It is note worthy that many of our doctors are the leading figures in Kerala in their respective fields. Now this is one of the leading multispeciality hospitals in central Kerala.