Tan Tock Seng Hospital

Tan Tock Seng Hospital
陈笃生医院 (Chinese)
Hospital Tan Tock Seng (Malay)
தன் டாக் செங் மருத்துவமனை (Tamil)
National Healthcare Group
The new 15-story Tan Tock Seng Hospital was marked as a historic institution on 25 July 2001.
Map
Geography
Location11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore 308433, Singapore
Coordinates1°19′17.8″N 103°50′45.4″E / 1.321611°N 103.845944°E / 1.321611; 103.845944
Organisation
FundingPublic hospital
TypeTeaching
Affiliated universityLee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU
Services
Emergency departmentAdult Level I
Beds1,700
Public transit accessNovena
History
Opened25 July 1844
Links
Websitewww.ttsh.com.sg
ListsHospitals in Singapore
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Traditional Chinese陳篤生醫院
Simplified Chinese陈笃生医院
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinChén Dǔshēng yīyuàn
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingCan4 Duk1 Saang1 Ji1 Jyun6
Southern Min
Hokkien POJTân Tok-seng I-īⁿ
Tâi-lôTân Tok-sing I-īnn

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).

  1. ^ "Tan Tock Seng Hospital". corp.nhg.com.sg. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  2. ^ "The operating theatre: An inside look". TODAY. Retrieved 29 April 2022.

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