Prem Reddy

Dr. Prem N. Reddy (born 1948) is a cardiologist and a major owner of Prime Healthcare Services, Inc., which owns several hospitals in California in the United States.

Reddy was born in a rural village called Niduguntapalem in southern India. He graduated from Sri Venkateswara University Medical College in 1973. In 1976 Prem and his wife immigrated to the United States.

Reddy, holding an MD, FACC, and FCCP, is a board-certified physician in internal medicine and cardiology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Chest Physicians. During two decades of practice, Dr. Reddy performed more than 5,000 cardiac procedures (such as coronary angiography and angioplasty, and permanent pacemaker implantations). Reddy is no longer licensed to practice medicine in California.

In the early 1980s, Dr. Reddy founded Desert Valley Medical Group in Victorville, CA and established Primecare Medical Group in 1992. He also founded PrimeRx, with 250,000 managed care patients, generating over $500 million in revenues a headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. He established Desert Valley Hospital in 1994 which today stands as the flagship hospital in the California healthcare system known as Prime Healthcare Services. Desert Valley Hospital has been recognized as a Top 100 Hospital in the Nation on numerous occasions.

In 2013 eight Prime Healthcare Hospitals were named in the "Top 100 Hospitals in the Nation" by Truven, formerly Thomson Reuters. Hospitals that receive these awards are noted for their high clinical standards, "that achieve the highest national scores based on 14 separate measures of hospital performance - operational, clinical and financial - that affect patients as well as the quality of care in the community." Prime Healthcare Services was recognized as a "Top 15 Health System" in 2013, the third time they have been on the list in five years.

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