ANMT School Kupwara was established in 2000 and school of Nursing was established in 2007. Since then this institute has been working both as ANMT & School of Nursing . This School is situated at district Headquarter Kupwara in the premises of Sub District Hospital. Kupwara is a border and hilly District of Jammu and Kashmir state. District headquarter is about 100 Kms away from Srinagar, the summer capital of the state. District Kupwara is rated as most backward District of Jammu and Kashmir so far as Socio-economic & education is concerned. This District is bounded by District Baramulla on South, District Bandipora on its east and on West and North the District is covered by POK , hence it is very sensitive district. The terrains are very difficult and many areas remain cut off with the District headquarter during winter season because of heavy snowfall. There are also some tourist places like Lolab valley - Dringarie & Bangus Valley.
The Health Setup in district Kupwara needs proper attention in order to provide health facilities to the masses at gross route level. Productive efforts are being made to augment the health infrastructure in the district by incorporating the same in the routine district plans. District Kupwara is comprising of ten medical Blocks having 244 Medical Institutions.