Gleneagles Hospital and Medical Centre

Gleneagles Hospital and Medical Centre
Geography
Location Singapore
Coordinates 1°18′26.0″N 103°49′11.0″E / 1.307222°N 103.819722°ECoordinates: 1°18′26.0″N 103°49′11.0″E / 1.307222°N 103.819722°E
Services
Beds 270
History
Founded 1957
Links
Website http://www.gleneagles.com.sg/
Lists Hospitals in Singapore

Gleneagles Hospital and Medical Centre (Chinese: 鹰阁医院) is a 270 bed[1] private hospital, located at Napier Road, Singapore. It provides medical and surgical services.[2]

History

Gleneagles Hospital started out as a 45-bed nursing home in 1957. The British Association was the original founder of Glenagles Hospital, during a time where Singapore was slowly gaining independence from the British.[3]

On 16 January 1958, Gleneagles Nursing Home was incorporated as a private company that came to be known as Gleneagles Hospital Limited. The hospital first opened its doors to the public on 8 June 1959. In 1979, it evolved into a 126 bed hospital that provides a wider range of medical services. From 1979 to 1980, the small 45-bed nursing home was slowly expanded into a 126-bed "medical center".

Parkway Holdings then acquired Glenagles Hospital on May 1987 for S$46 million.[4] Parkway Holdings continued the expansion from 1988 to 1991.[4] Spending S$150 million, Gleneagles Hospital was transformed into a modern hospital. The new additions were a new 10-storey hospital block, 14 operating theaters and 150 consulting suites. Parkway Holdings did not stop at superficial improvements. Gleneagles Hospital also expanded its range of services to include hospital management and consultancy services.[5]

In 1993, Gleneagles transformed into a tertiary care hospital. A year later, Gleneagles Hospital was commissioned with 150 medical specialists. In 1997, the hospital had expanded to a 380-bed institution.

At present, there are more than 160 specialists specializing in more than 30 specialties. It is renowned for attracting many foreigners around the region due to its excellent patient care record.[6]

Location

The current address of the hospital at 6A Napier Road, Singapore 258500 is where the old Gleneagles Hotel was located. Located across the Singapore Botanical Gardens, Gleneagles Hotel was built as a luxury, leisure hotel. It had long lounges and wide windows. These features were adapted into the current hospital layout, allowing for a relatively different hospital environment, as compared to the other hospitals in Singapore.

Infrastructure and Facilities

Gleneagles offers a range of accommodation from suites to single rooms, 2 bedded, and 4 bedded rooms. It also offers maternity wards.[7]

Gleneagles has an Accident & Emergency department.[8]

Gleneagles has a multi-disciplinary team of specialists in the areas of:[9]

It has 2 categories of Intensive care unit:[10]

  1. Parkway Asian Transplant Unit, which is solely dedicated to the care of patients with various liver conditions that required special care.
  2. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, which provides specialised care to premature infants.

Medical and Clinical Support Services

Other services provided by Gleneagles include:

Major Milestones/Achievements

Gleneagles Hospital has many accolades under its belt. It was first awarded the prestigious Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCI) in 2006. This accreditation certifies that the hospital satisfies the international standard of care and hospital management, with the Gold Seal of Approval.[14]

As early as 1999, Gleneagles was already at the forefront of medical robotics. It became the first hospital in Southeast Asia to use the state-of-the-art Robotic SurgiScope for neurosurgery, ENT and spinal surgeries. This shortens both surgery and recovery time by 30%.

In 2002, the Asian American Liver Center [15] in Gleneagles Hospital became the first hospital in South East Asia to perform a living donor liver transplant for children. It is a high risk operation that is often a life-saving procedure. [16]The Asian American Liver Center uses state of the art technology which helps doctors reconstruct liver anatomy from CT scans, allowing for more accurate diagnosis and precision in operations. To date, it is the only South East Asian medical center to use this technology.

First hospital[5]

Her achievements include:[5]

Partnerships

Gleneagles has forged partnerships with a few institutions including Johns Hopkins University and Hospital (US), Thames Valley University (UK), Curtin University of Technology and La Trobe University (Australia).[5] Besides working with international institutions, Gleneagles collaborates locally with other hospitals in times of crisis. In July 2013, seeing the surge in dengue cases, Gleneagles Hospital collaborated with Changi General Hospital, a public hospital, initiating the idea of using the private sector bed capacity to house patients who are subsidized by the government in public hospitals.[17]

Controversies

In 2013, Mr Li Siu Lun, 54, successfully sued Gleneagles Hospital and was awarded $250,000 in damages. He claimed that the hospital has conspired with a private practitioner Dr. Looi Kok Poh, to make the patient undergo additional surgery in order to cover up a botched hand operation. Mr. Li alleged that Gleneagles Hospital had altered his consent form and medical records in order to help Dr. Looi avoid responsibility. [18]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Parkway Hospitals
  2. ↑ Gleneagles Hospital
  3. ↑ British Association
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 National Library Board
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Health Base
  6. ↑ Medical Travel Quality Alliance
  7. ↑ Gleneagles Hospital Facilities
  8. ↑ Gleneagles Hospital Accident & Emergency Department
  9. ↑ Gleneagles Hospital Surgery
  10. ↑ Gleneagles Hospital ICU
  11. ↑ Gleneagles Hospital Endoscopy Centre
  12. ↑ Gleneagles Hospital Parkway Cancer Centre
  13. ↑ Gleneagles Hospital Parkway Gynaecology Screening & Treatment Centre
  14. ↑ Joint Commission International Accreditation
  15. ↑
  16. ↑
  17. ↑ Changi General Hospital
  18. ↑ Looi Kok Poh

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