Our Beginnings
It might surprise some that the hospital grew to its present stature from modest beginnings. Founded in 1957, it was a 45-bed nursing home, which expanded to become a 126-bed hospital offering a complete range of services and facilities in 1979.
Parkway Holdings Ltd bought the hospital in 1987 and extended its healthcare services to
encompass hospital management and consultancy services. At the end of 1990, the Sleep Laboratory and Rehabilitation Therapy Units were introduced, followed soon by the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
The growth was rapid. By 1993, Gleneagles had become a tertiary healthcare hospital with a ten-storey hospital building and growing subsidiaries in the healthcare business. The Gleneagles Medical Centre was commissioned in 1994. Housing 150 medical specialists, it has established itself as a premier tertiary acute care hospital. By 1997, it had expanded to 380 beds.
Recognising its transformation, the Singapore Productivity & Standards Board (PSB) (now known as SPRING Singapore) awarded the hospital with the Singapore Quality Class in April 2000.
With its strong focus on learning healthcare services, Gleneagles has tied up with renowned international institutions such as Johns Hopkins University and Hospital in the United States (US), Thames Valley University in United Kingdom (UK), and Curtin University of Technology and La Trobe University in Australia.
Gleneagles also places a strong emphasis on staff development. No effort is spared in continuing education, and training for staff career development and systems are put in place to monitor their skill development and service improvement.
Reflecting its exceptional and best practices in staff training and development, Gleneagles won the National Training Award (Service Sector Category) in November 2000. In the same year, the hospital was also awarded the People Developer Standard for its commitment to human resource development.
Gleneagles will pursue its vision to be the most customer friendly leading edge tertiary hospital in the region while maintaining its contributions to Singapore early in the 21st Century. As part of its relentless efforts to raise quality standards, it has continued to participate actively in the National Quality Circles Convention.
Gleneagles' more recent developments include the opening of Gleneagles Clinical Research Centre to facilitate clinical trials and research within the Parkway Group hospitals. With this initiative, physicians and patients have increased access to cutting-edge medicine, promising new treatments before they become widely available.
We continue to march forward in the knowledge that we are among the cream of the crop in medical healthcare.
