The Outram Community Hospital (OCH) is a 545-bed

community hospital A community hospital can be purely a nominal designation or have a more specific meaning. When specific, it refers to a hospital that is accessible to the general public, and provides a general or specific medical care which is usually short-term, ...

in Bukit Merah,

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

. It is located adjacent to, and complements, the

Singapore General Hospital Singapore General Hospital (SGH) is an academic health science centre and tertiary referral hospital in Singapore. It is located next to the Bukit Merah and Chinatown districts of the Central Region, close to the Outram Community Hospital (OC ...

(SGH).

History

The Outram Community Hospital was first announced by Minister for Health Mr

Gan Kim Yong Gan Kim Yong ( zh, s=颜金勇, p=Yán Jīnyǒng; born 9 February 1959) is a Singaporean politician who has been serving as Minister for Trade and Industry since 2021. A member of the governing People's Action Party, he has been the Member of P ...

as part of the Healthcare 2020 plan during the Committee of Supply (COS) speech in 2012, which aims to increase the number of hospital beds by 3,700 around Singapore by 2020, of which 1,800 will be Community Hospital beds. The hospital is located within the

campus. On 21 May 2015, the hospital held its ground-breaking ceremony with the actual details unveiled. There will be 550 beds, of which 500 are for sub-acute patients with 50 beds for palliative care patients. The hospital opened its doors on 7 December 2019, with the rest of the hospital opening fully over the next three years. The SingHealth Tower and Outram Community Hospital held their opening ceremony on 24 January 2022, with a speech by Health Minister Ong Ye Kung.

Key Milestones

*6 March 2012: Announcement of community hospital in Outram *21 May 2015: Groundbreaking ceremony of Outram Community Hospital *7 December 2019: Opening of Outram Community Hospital

References

External links

SingHealth Community Hospitals
2019 establishments in Singapore Hospitals in Singapore Bukit Merah Buildings and structures in Central Region, Singapore {{Singapore-hospital-stub