Healthcare BPO/KPO firm, Omega Healthcare Management Services, have opened their state of the art facility in Chennai. The new spans nearly 45,000 sq ft and can accommodate 2,100 employees in multiple shifts.

Currently, Omega Healthcare employs a total of 2,600 people of which 1,900 are located in Bangalore and 700 in Chennai. The company is expanding rapidly in Chennai and plans to hire an additional 1,400 employees by July 2010, bringing the total Omega team to 4,000.

“This is a very important milestone for us to establish a scalable infrastructure in Chennai and allow us to harness the incredible talent available here,” Gopi Natarajan, Co-Founder & CEO, Omega Healthcare said in a statement.

Anurag Mehta, Co-Founder & Executive VP of Omega Healthcare said, “The US healthcare sector is relatively immune to recessions and our expansion plans are in line with the growth that this industry continues to offer.”

Employees hired in the Chennai campus of Omega Healthcare will work on medical coding, accounts receivable management and data entry into various client application systems. Graduates and post graduates in the life sciences area including doctors, dentists, nurses, and physical therapists will be hired for medical coding. Graduates with excellent communication and typing skills will be hired for the other functions.