The hospital is run by the Tirur Co-operatrive Hospital and Research Center Ltd Founded in 2002,[1] the hospital is named after and dedicated to the memory of Shihab Thangal, a philanthropist and a former president of the Kerala state committee of the Indian Union Muslim League.

[2] The Shihab Thangal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre was registered in 2001 under the Kerala Government Cooperative Societies Act of 1969.

It has over 6000 shareholders and is governed by a board of directors.

It has six theatres for operations, several intensive care units, including a neonatal unit, and an air ambulance facility.

The hospital's web site says the building has five floors, and will have nine when completed.