Health Care Institute (HCI) is a voluntary Organization initiated by a group of progressive, secular and service minded citizens in May 1998. HCI is located at the historical town, Kodungallur in Thrissur District. , Registered under the Charitable Societies Registration Act, HCI is the first Non-Governmental Organization in Kerala in the field of Palliative Care.

HCI is the satellite unit of Pain and Palliative Care Clinic, Kozhikode and Nodal Center of Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram.

Here the patient is the most important consideration. HCI stands for a Culture where the SOOTHED but not the SOOTHER is the Hero.