History — Hospital

Dr. R. N. Cooper Municipal General Hospital was inaugurated in 1969 as a maternity home to serve the rapidly-growing JVPD scheme and the western suburbs of Mumbai. It was quickly upgraded to a general hospital and, by 1977, was recognised as a teaching hospital affiliated to medical colleges in the city.

A landmark redevelopment, completed in 2013, gave the institution a brand-new 636-bed facility with modern operation theatres, intensive-care units, diagnostics and outpatient infrastructure. In August 2015, the Government of Maharashtra and the MCGM upgraded the hospital into a full medical college — naming it after the late Shri Bal Thackeray as Hinduhridaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Medical College (HBTMC) — making it the fourth medical college owned by the MCGM.