Farrer Park Hospital
| Farrer Park Hospital | |
|---|---|
| The Farrer Park Company | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 1 Farrer Park Station Road, #02-01, Connexion, Singapore 217562 |
| Coordinates | 1°18′46″N 103°51′16″E / 1.3127619°N 103.8545562°E |
| Organisation | |
| Funding | For-profit hospital |
| Type | General |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 145 |
| History | |
| Opened | 16 March 2016 |
| Links | |
| Website | https://www.farrerpark.com/ |
Farrer Park Hospital is a private tertiary healthcare institution in Farrer Park, Singapore. Located above the Farrer Park MRT station at the Connexion building, the hospital has a capacity of 220 beds across four inpatient suites and 18 operating theaters including major surgery, cardiovascular and endoscopic suites.[1] It is interconnected with the Farrer Park Medical Centre, where there are 10 floors of suites for over 200 medical specialists,[2][3] as well as One Farrer Hotel.
Equipped with smart systems, the hospital is built to be future-proof.[1] Doctors have electronic tablets and/or phones linked to the hospital systems, allowing them to get real-time updates of patients' scans and test results. This also helps them in ordering medication for patients on the go. Technology is woven into "every facet of treatment and patient experience."[4]
Notable treatments include the Transurethral microwave thermotherapy to treat benign prostate hyperplasia, the enlargement of the prostate as well as the introduction of pressurized intraperitoneal aerosolized chemotherapy treatment[5] for late-stage peritoneal cancer.
History[edit]
Farrer Park Hospital was opened on March 16, 2016 by Health Minister Gan Kim Yong.[6] Plans for the hospital were first announced in 2008. Construction took place from 2009 through 2014, with the first clinic opening at Farrer Park Medical Centre in May 2014. Other facilities in the hospital opened in phases.
The hospital was founded, developed and managed by physicians where their collective clinical and patient-fronting experiences led to the creation of a patient-centric and clinically functional private healthcare facility.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Tan, Wei Zhen (2016-02-27). "New Farrer Park Hospital aims to offer 'affordable' private care". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
- ^ "Prevention is Protection: Farrer Park Hospital and Comprehensive Program of Cancer Prevention". Indonesia Tatler. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
- ^ "'Hospital of the Future' Farrer Park Hospital opens in Singapore". AsiaOne Health. Archived from the original on February 11, 2017. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
- ^ "How this hospital is fighting hackers with AI". GovInsider. 2018-07-25. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
- ^ Girshally, Ramy; Demtröder, Cedric; Albayrak, Nurettin; Zieren, Jürgen; Tempfer, Clemens; Reymond, Marc A. (2016-09-27). "Pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC) as a neoadjuvant therapy before cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy". World Journal of Surgical Oncology. 14 (1): 253. doi:10.1186/s12957-016-1008-0. ISSN 1477-7819. PMC 5039790. PMID 27678344.
- ^ "Speech by Mr Gan Kim Yong, Minister for Health, at the official opening of Farrer Park Hospital, 16 March 2016 | Ministry of Health". Archived from the original on 7 March 2017. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
- ^ "How we built a data-driven hospital". GovInsider. 2018-11-14. Retrieved 2020-08-14.