Tan Tock Seng Hospital 陈笃生医院 (Chinese) Hospital Tan Tock Seng (Malay) தன் டாக் செங் மருத்துவமனை (Tamil) | |
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National Healthcare Group | |
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The new 15-story Tan Tock Seng Hospital was marked as a historic institution on 25 July 2001. | |
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Geography | |
Location | 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore 308433, Singapore |
Coordinates | 1°19′17.8″N 103°50′45.4″E / 1.321611°N 103.845944°E |
Organisation | |
Funding | Public hospital |
Type | Teaching |
Affiliated university | Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU |
Services | |
Emergency department | Adult Level I |
Beds | 1,700 |
Public transit access | Novena |
History | |
Opened | 25 July 1844 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in Singapore |
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Traditional Chinese | 陳篤生醫院 | ||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 陈笃生医院 | ||||||||||||||||
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Tan Tock Seng Hospital (abbreviation: TTSH) is a tertiary referral hospital in Singapore, located in Novena. The hospital has 45 clinical and allied health departments, 16 specialist centres and is powered by more than 8,000 healthcare staff. Tan Tock Seng Hospital is Singapore's second-largest acute care general hospital with over 1,500 beds (second only to Singapore General Hospital).[1] TTSH has the busiest trauma centre in the country; 100 trauma cases are seen every day and 100 trauma surgeries are performed daily.[2]
TTSH is the flagship hospital of the National Healthcare Group and the principal teaching hospital for the NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. Its campus includes the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and two national specialty centres, namely the National Skin Centre (NSC) and the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI).