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KIMS Hospital is a private hospital in Maidstone built by VINCI Construction UK at a cost of £90 million which opened in 2014.
It has 99 beds, five theatres, two endoscopy suites and two cardiac labs. In April 2015 only 25% of the beds were occupied. It is the first private tertiary-level hospital in Kent.
The chairman is Peter Goddard, a lawyer who started the project with Dr Phyllis Holt, Franz Dickmann and his son James in 2006. The Hospital CEO is Simon James.
It was intended to provide highly specialised services, some of which were not available elsewhere in the county, but the extreme range of services offered resulted in very low numbers of some procedures. The Care Quality Commission inspected it in September 2015 and complained that it website offered "a huge range of services and treatments that it cannot provide safely and creates an image that is inaccurate,” rating its safety standards as inadequate, though it was rated “good” for caring, responsiveness and effectiveness, and its radiology and catheterisation laboratories were praised.