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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