Society of Sisters of the Holy Cross established their mission at kamagere, Kollegal taluk, Chamarajanagr District, Mysore Diocese in the year 1970 with the charism of their Founders Fr Theodosius Florentini and Mother Bernarda heigmgartner a swiss monk and a Swiss Nun. They carried out the mission of Jesus through Health care both at Hospital and community. During the year 1997 a School of Nursing was established with Government order in order to prepare professional Nurses and improve standards of nursing service through quality education. We have grown to be one among the best hospital and nursing institution in the Chamarajangar District and Karnataka state under the management of Holy Cross Sisters at Central Indian province.
Since its inception, the Nursing School has trained hundreds of nurses whose outstanding skills and competence have won praise not only in India but in several countries abroad. The unique characteristics of the training imparted in this institution is that it seeks to imbue the Nurses with compassionate love of Jesus for the sick and the suffering and enabling them to be outstanding in human qualities.
In 2019 being the golden jubilee year of Holy cross Hospital Kamagere Sisters decided to upgrade the existing Nursing School to keep pace with the rapid advancement in Medical and Nursing Sciences. Thus Holy Cross College of Nursing came into existence with the Four Year B.Sc. Nursing Degree Course. Our School and college has recognition from Karnataka State Nursing Council and Indian Nursing council and Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore.
College is equipped with qualified and competent teachers, good physical infrastructure, Library and most importantly students get opportunity for clinical learning in parent teaching hospital . College has excellent, efficient and highly motivated faculty who plan meticulously all the curricular and co-curricular activities for the students. Nursing students do have benefit of contributions from interdisciplinary teaching faculty and ample opportunity for extra- curricular activities as our College has excellent facilities for the same. We are proud to say that all our alumni’s are on job in various hospitals and nursing institutes in India and abroad.
With a long history of achievements in nursing education the Holy Cross Nursing institution continues to move forward with compassion, dedication and commitment and widen it service with B.Sc Nursing Programme.
Sr Lucy John the eminent person is the Founding principal of both School of Nursing and College of Nursing. I warmly invite you to be a proud nursing student of Holy Cross College of Nursing.
Sr. Lucy John
PRINCIPAL