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It serves mainly the population of northeast Singapore, in particular Sengkang, Punggol, Hougang and Pasir Ris. The hospital is managed by Sengkang Health. [1] Offering general hospital services with community-based care, the hospitals are part of Singapore's master plan in providing quality and accessible healthcare to all Singaporeans.
Name Opened District Ownership Beds Staff Outram Community Hospital: 2019 Bukit Merah: Public () 550 [18]: 350 [3]: Sengkang Community Hospital: 2018 Sengkang: 400 [19]: 407 [3]: Woodlands Health Campus
Singapore Health Services, commonly known as SingHealth, is the largest group of healthcare institutions in Singapore. Established in 2000, the group consists of four public hospitals , two community hospitals, five national specialty centres and a network of eight polyclinics .
The building, which was completed in 2004, houses a neighbourhood police centre, [1] a Singapore Post post office, a People's Association community club, a SingHealth polyclinic, [2] a Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children's Hospital women's clinic, [3] and a Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association office. [4] [5]
In November 1999, then-Minister for Health Lim Hng Kiang announced that Singapore's public healthcare institutions would be reorganized into two delivery networks, or clusters. [2] In October 2000, the formation of the two clusters - National Healthcare Group and SingHealth - was officially completed. [ 3 ]
Guided by its vision, "Towards seamless quality care – together", it sought to gradually reshape Singapore's model of healthcare to meet the challenges of a growing and ageing population. [ 4 ] In Jan 2018, the Eastern Health Alliance merged with SingHealth as part of a public health restructuring exercise.
In 2000, Singapore was ranked 6th in the World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems. [1] Bloomberg ranked Singapore's healthcare system the most efficient in the world in 2014. [2] The Economist Intelligence Unit placed Singapore 2nd out of 166 countries for health-care outcomes. [3]
IMH is the only tertiary hospital in Singapore that specialises in psychiatry. It has over 50 wards and 2010 beds for inpatients and seven specialist clinics for outpatients. Apart from its hospital-based services, IMH runs satellite clinics at different locations in Singapore and executes community mental healthcare programmes.