The Karen Hospital Medical Training College (TKHMTC) was started on 2nd September 2013 with the first batch of nine (9) students. The college was envisioned, proposed and facilitated by the Karen Hospital Limited Board of Directors (BOD) under the able leadership of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Betty Gikonyo. This was in her bid to realize one of her dreams of training and developing competent healthcare professionals not only for the local but regional and international market consumption. She was elated when her dream to facilitate leadership in healthcare training came to fruition on 17th March 2017 when the college held its first graduation ceremony hosted by Prof. George Magoha (The chairman of Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board-KMPDB and the Current Cabinet secretary, Ministry of Education). Three months before, on June 19th 2013, the Nursing Council of Kenya (REF: NCK/ST/2013) officially authorized TKHMTC to operate as a training institution.

With the approval, came the implementation of the Kenya Registered Nursing (KRN) program. The college was also approved by the Ministry of Higher Education through the Technical and Vocational Education Training Authority (TVETA) on 19th June 2017 to offer diploma courses. We now offer Higher Diploma in Cardiology, Higher Diploma in Cardiopulmonary Perfusion and Diploma in Perioperative Theatre Engineering. The college was also approved by the Nursing Council of Kenya (NCK) in the same Month to be a CPD (Continuous Professional Development) Centre for short courses such as Basic Life support (BLS), Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS), Advanced Life Support in Obstetric (ALSO) among others. The institution was officially launched and opened by the then Kajiado County Governor, Hon. David Nkendianye and the building consecrated by Rev. Paul Wanjau of the Presbyterian Churches of Kenya on 8th November 2013.

The Karen Hospital Medical Training College is an innovative medical school that is committed to excellence and leadership in health and education with a business administration angle, medical research and service to the society. This has been evidenced by the consistent excellence in academic performance that has seen the college rated as one of the best performing training institution in the Kenya Registered Nursing (KRN) programme in Kenya. Initially situated at Anselim Building in Ngong Town, the college relocated its classrooms to The Karen Hospital grounds along Lang’ata-Karen Road in Nairobi in November 2015. The move from Ngong was necessitated by the tremendous growth in the students population. On 1st July 2017, the college relocated accommodation facilities to the Karen hospital which has a capacity of 100 students.

MISSION:  To train and develop nationally and internationally competent health care professionals who are ready to offer quality nursing care.

VISION: To be a model faculty of excellence in the training and development of competent healthcare professionals within Kenya and beyond.

CORE VALUES:

• Sharing of knowledge and skills
• Respect for policies and standards of care
• Integrity and ethics
• Professionalism
• Patriotism
• Innovation
• Team work       – Read TKHMTC Full History