Mount Elizabeth Hospital: International Cardiology Center

  By Lucas Lee

 As a leading private healthcare services hub in Asia, the international city of Singapore attracts approximately 400,000 international patients every year. Singapore is a world-class, cosmopolitan, and culturally vibrant city of grace that is stable, peaceful, and safe. Many international patients place their confidence in its world-class healthcare system, which is at the forefront of medical technology and has safety as its top priority. In the heart of Singapore's prime shopping district of Orchard Road lies Mount Elizabeth Hospital, one of the region's largest hospitals, providing a wide range of medical and surgical services.

In-depth expertise
Mount Elizabeth Hospital is renowned for the in-depth expertise of its specialists and state-of-the-art technology. Its reputation goes beyond Asia, as it continues to perform the largest number of cardiac surgeries and neurosurgeries in the private sector regionally. This 345-bed private tertiary acute care hospital has Asia's highest concentration of cardiologists and cardiac surgeons, neurologists and neurosurgeons, as well as general surgeons and many other tertiary services. It is the first private hospital in Singapore to offer cardiac catheterization, cardiac surgery and neurosurgery, and other advanced procedures. The hospital currently holds the record for performing the most number of open- heart surgeries and neurosurgeries in the private sector in Singapore. In 1993, it was the first hospital in Asia to successfully perform a cardiomyoplasty procedure and transmyocardial revascularization procedure with the heart laser. In 2004, Mount Elizabeth Hospital was the first hospital in Southeast Asia to install and use the PET-CT scanner, a highly advanced diagnostic tool for scanning tumors. In 2008, it became the first hospital in Asia outside of Japan to use the state-of-the-art 320-slice CT scanner. In 2010, it was the first hospital in Singapore to perform robotic thyroidectomy.

Best healthcare experience
Mount Elizabeth Hospital received accreditation since 2006 from the international accreditation arm of the U.S.-based Joint Commissions on Accreditation of Healthcare Organisations, which represents a worldwide consensus on quality patient care. The hospital also received the Singapore Experience Awards 2010 (Best Healthcare Experience), which recognizes healthcare institutions that provide medical services to local and international patients and promote Singapore as a healthcare hub. It recognizes the contribution to tourism through the provision of good medical services, technology, facilities, and support services for patients.
A total of 1,174 doctors are accredited with Mount Elizabeth Hospital. There are 442 doctors and clinics at the Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre. Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre is Asia's largest private medical center with the highest concentration of private specialists, including cardiologists and cardiac surgeons, neurologists and neurosurgeons, and general surgeons.

Contact information
Mount Elizabeth Hospital
3 Mount Elizabeth, Singapore 228510
Tel: +65-6737-2666
Fax: +65-6737-1189
Web: www.mountelizabeth.com.sg