Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore

Gleneagles Hospital, opened in 1959, is one of Singapore's largest private hospitals. Gleneagles Hospital is a private tertiary acute care hospital located right next to the Singapore Botanic Gardens on the border of the Orchard Road shopping belt. It is a regional centre for medical referrals for the Parkway Health group.

Gleneagles Hospital today is a 380-bed private tertiary acute care hospital with 164 consulting suites, a cardiac centre, a cancer centre called Parkway Cancer Centre @ Gleneagles, a coronary care unit, an in-vitro fertilisation centre and an eye centre. It offers a full range of medical and surgical specialities and sub-specialties. In 1998, Gleneagles entered into a joint venture with Akira Wu and Nippon Meden Pte Ltd to set up clinics for the Japanese expatriate community in Singapore through a company called Nippon Medical Care Pte Ltd. In the same year, Gleneagles Hospital also began offering home healthcare services for patients wishing to recuperate at home.

          Over the years, the hospital has continued to invest heavily in the latest and the best medical equipment. It is equipped with the latest diagnostic imaging systems such as linear accelerators, cancer therapy systems, planning systems and simulators, angiographic systems and a magnetic resonance imager. To facilitate the development of medical, nursing and technical education and research in Singapore and the region, Gleneagles Hospital has tie-ups with well-known institutions across the world: the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital in the Unites States; the Thames Valley University in the United Kingdom; Curtin University of Technology; and La Trobe University in Australia. The hospital also set up a teleconference link in 1995 with Johns Hopkins University and Hospital for doctors and patients seeking clarifications or second opinions from doctors based there. Gleneagles Hospital won the National Training Award (Service Category) in November 2000 and was also awarded the People Developer Standard in the same year.

 

     Hightlights
  • First hospital in Southeast Asia to perform a living donor liver transplant (LDLT) for children.
  • First hospital in Asia to successfully perform closure of atrial septal defects using the amplatz occluder.
  • First hospital in Asia to successfully perform laparoscopic assisted ventricular peritoneal placement on a newborn.
  • First hospital in Southeast Asia to use the state-of-the-art robotic surgiscope for neurosurgery, ear nose and throat (ENT) and spinal surgeries (shortens surgery and recovery time by 30%).
  • First hospital in Singapore to successfully perform closure of ventricular septal defect.

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