TMM College of Nursing

TMM College of Nursing is a health care institution managed by the Christian Brethren Society and demonstrates the compassion and healing through excellence in education, service and research. With the vision to train nurses to give efficient healthc e vision to train nurses to give efficient healthcare in hospital and community, the first Nurses Training course started at TMM hospital in 1943 that progressed to the first GNM course in Kerala during 1944. This expanded with the start of B.Sc. Nursing in 2004 and M.Sc. Nursing in 2014. TMM is now a registered Charitable Society under the official name “The Dewan Bahadur Dr. V. Verghese Hospital Trust Association”. INC (Indian Nursing Council) and KNMC (Kerala Nurses and Midwifery Council) recognizes the courses offered which runs under KUHS (Kerala University of Health Sciences). Currently the annual student intake under GNM is 20, B.Sc. (N) is 50 and M.Sc. (N) is 14. Tiruvalla Medical Mission began as a dream in the heart of Dewan Bahadur Dr. V. Varghese the personal physician of the Maharaja of the State of Cochin at the time of his retirement. As an ardent Christian, he read and studied closely the works of early missionaries. Drawing a page from George Mueller a prayer warrior and a leader of the orphanage movement in England, Dewan Bahadur dedicated his life, resources and skills for the betterment of society. Dr Verghese retired from the royal service and immediately began to give shape and structure to his vision. In 1935,Dewan Bahadur Dr. V. Verghese, established a small hospital on a small wooded hillock near the Tiruvalla railway station, Kerala, India.The same is the present site occupied by the main hospital of Tiruvalla Medical Mission (TMM).Along with laying the foundation for the hospital, he also laid the principles for service and administration; all decisions had to be in accordance with ethical and Christian principles. Thus, TMM began as a small step of faith for Dewan Bahadur, but a giant leap for the people of Central Travancore. In 1940,Dewan Bahadur Dr. V. Verghese constituted a Charitable Trust for this hospital and handed over to the medical missionaries of Brethren persuasion. The Trust began to be popularly known as ‘Tiruvalla Medical Mission’ (SaippinteAsupathry) with Dr. R.S.Churchward, an eminent missionary doctor from England taking over as Medical Superintendent. In those days’ hospitals were few and far between and nursing study courses unheard of in the State of Travancore or in Malabar. However, in the State of Cochin a 3- year course in nursing was in existence from 1928 but midwifery training for nurses was not compulsory. ...view more