AIG Hospitals and Mayo Clinic announced Thursday that AIG Hospitals has joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network.

AIG Hospitals is the first health care facility in India to become a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, a group of carefully vetted, independent health care systems that have special access to Mayo Clinic’s knowledge and expertise. Physicians from AIG Hospitals will be able to combine their understanding of their patients’ medical needs with Mayo Clinic expertise, so patients get exactly the care they need close to home. There is no additional cost to patients.

AIG Hospitals is a unit of Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, one of India’s leading gastroenterology hospitals. Spread across 1.7 million square feet, AIG Hospitals is one of the largest hospitals in India today, serving over 600,000 patients annually. Tertiary care services include organ transplantation, oncology, cardiology, nephrology, urology, obesity and metabolic therapy, pulmonology, liver sciences and hepatology.

Mayo Clinic developed the first integrated multispecialty group practice more than 150 years ago. Today, Mayo Clinic is the largest nonprofit group practice in the world, serving about 1.3 million patients annually.