Singapore General Hospital
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Singapore General Hospital (SGH)[lower-alpha 1] is an academic health science centre and tertiary referral hospital in Singapore. It is located next to the Bukit Merah and Chinatown districts of the Central Region, close to the Outram Community Hospital (OCH), which functions as a supplementary community and rehabilitation hospital to SGH for newly discharged patients.[1] There is also the Outram Polyclinic to complement outpatient care. All of these institutions are operated by SingHealth, which comes under the purview of the Ministry of Health (MOH).
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Location | Bukit Merah, Central Region, Singapore | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 1°16′43.2″N 103°50′03.7″E | ||||||||||
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Funding | Public hospital | ||||||||||
Type | Teaching | ||||||||||
Affiliated university | Duke–NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore (NUS) | ||||||||||
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Emergency department | Yes Accident & Emergency | ||||||||||
Beds | 2,000 | ||||||||||
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Opened | 1821; 203 years ago (1821) | ||||||||||
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Website | www | ||||||||||
Lists | Hospitals in Singapore |
It is the largest and oldest hospital in Singapore and functions as the country's national hospital. The foundation of its first building was laid in 1821, before its first major expansion in 1926.[2] Subsequent expansions as well as renovations were also made in the following decades.
SGH is the flagship hospital of SingHealth, the country's largest group of public healthcare institutions and the principal teaching hospital for the Duke–NUS Medical School, which is affiliated with the National University of Singapore. Its campus includes four national speciality centres, namely the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC), the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS), the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS), and the National Dental Centre Singapore (NDCS). A fifth speciality centre, the Elective Care Centre Singapore (ECC), is currently under construction and it is expected to be completed in 2025.
SGH has been considered as being one of the best hospitals in the world, being consistently ranked in the top 10 by Newsweek, reaching its highest of 3rd in 2019.[3][4] Subsequently, it is the highest ranked hospital in Asia, drawing in patients from around the region, with SGH performing near the highest number of transplants in the country, including both solid hematologic and organ transplantation.[5]