Farrer Park Hospital

Farrer Park Hospital
Farrer Park Hospital
Geography
Location	1 Farrer Park Station Road, #02-01, Connexion, Singapore 217562, Singapore
Coordinates	1.3127619°N 103.8545562°E
Organisation
Type	Private
Services
Emergency department	Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds	220
Helipad	No
History
Opened	16 March 2016
Links
Website	https://www.farrerpark.com/hospital/Pages/Home.aspx
Lists	Hospitals in Singapore

Farrer Park Hospital is a private tertiary healthcare institution in Farrer Park, Singapore opened on 16 March 2016 by Health Minister Gan Kim Yong.[1]

Located above the Farrer Park MRT station, the hospital has a capacity of 220 beds, 18 operating theatres and is connected to Farrer Park Medical Centre which houses 10 floors of suites for over 400 medical specialists.[2][3]

It plans to operate in a niche below top-end private hospitals and expects half the patients to be medical tourists.[4]

History

Plans for the hospital were first announced in 2008.[5]

In early 2019, the hospital was noted as having a lack of patients, with about 50 to 60 per week at most times, and 50 percent of the medical suites were unoccupied. This was mainly due to the reduced numbers of medical tourists in Singapore, which had halved over the past decade, as well as the hospital's inconvenient location.[5]

References

"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.
"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. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
"New Farrer Park Hospital aims to offer 'affordable' private care". Straits Times. 27 February 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
Lim, Joyce (9 May 2019). "Where are the patients? Farrer Park Hospital sees about 60 inpatients most weeks". The Straits Times. Singapore. Retrieved 8 August 2019.

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[1] "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.

[2] "Prevention is Protection: Farrer Park Hospital and Comprehensive Program of Cancer Prevention". Indonesia Tatler. Retrieved 2017-03-07.

[3] "'Hospital of the Future' Farrer Park Hospital opens in Singapore". AsiaOne Health. Retrieved 2017-03-07.

[4] "New Farrer Park Hospital aims to offer 'affordable' private care". Straits Times. 27 February 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2017.

[:0-5] Lim, Joyce (9 May 2019). "Where are the patients? Farrer Park Hospital sees about 60 inpatients most weeks". The Straits Times. Singapore. Retrieved 8 August 2019.