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Our dedicated medical team with post-graduate training in family and geriatric medicine is augmented by visiting specialists. Working with our partners improves coordinated care.
Wound care is a major reason why patients are referred to St Luke’s Hospital, for healing of diabetic, pressure, venous and artificial ulcers, and surgical, traumatic and other wounds in a dedicated wound ward.
Rehabilitation, with physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists, helps patients regain their ability to carry out activities of daily living, such as balance and walking, eating, speech and toileting, eg after stroke, operation and amputation.
To care for persons in the last stages of their lives, we care for mind, body and spirit to comfort and provide the best quality of life possible for patients and their caregivers, helping them to live well before leaving.
A multi-disciplinary, dedicated dementia care team looks after patients with dementia and supports their caregivers, in a purpose-built ward.
Rehabilitation, with physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists, helps patients regain their ability to carry out activities of daily living, such as balance and walking, eating, speech and toileting, eg after stroke, operation and amputation.
Outpatient rehabilitation at our Day Rehabilitation Centre helps to restore functional ability or delay deterioration due to disease and ageing.
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A one-stop clinic to meet community healthcare needs. St Luke’s Community Clinic provides comprehensive care, with a wide range of services and a multi-disciplinary team. Services include:
• Family physician clinic (including management of geriatric syndromes, osteoporosis, stroke and chronic disease)
• Diabetes care services
• Community psychiatry clinic
• Dementia care programme
• Wound care
• Primary care eye clinic
• Dietician counselling
• Dental clinic
• X-ray
For the home-bound who need home medical, home nursing (eg wound care, changing of urinary catheters and feeding tubes) and home therapy (eg physiotherapy, occupational and speech therapy).
A home-based dementia intervention programme (up to six months) providing support to persons with dementia, as well as equipping family members and caregivers with skills and knowledge to cope better.
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Our Community Response Team (CRT) provides early intervention, clinical support and Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia management for persons with dementia and geriatric mental health conditions in the western region of Singapore.
Click here for the CRT referral form.
“Jin Jia Ho! Bagus!” is a community frailty and screening programme to help Bukit Batok residents aged 60 and above to stay physically, mentally and socially healthy. There will be health screening by our nurses, exercises by our physiotherapist and health coaches, and a range of other activities onsite at our partnering Senior Activity Centres.
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Eye screening for diabetic patients is available with the Mobile Diabetic Retinal Photography (MDRP) team which is carried out monthly.
Radiological and laboratory services are available. These services, like the outpatient clinic, improve access to services at one place instead of multiple places, saving patients and their caregivers transport time, cost and effort.
Dental care services are available on a weekly basis. Geriatric dentistry may help to restore patients’ ability to eat and speak effectively.
Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation is available for chronic heart and lung conditions.
Dieticians assess the nutritional status of patients and recommend appropriate dietary treatment. They provide nutrition counselling to inpatients, outpatients and their caregivers, as well as advice on hospital kitchen services.
The answers to some struggles are beyond the reach of medicine and physical therapy. A listening ear with emotional and spiritual support help to lift the spirits of patients and their families.
2 Bukit Batok Street 11 Singapore 659674
Tel: +65 6563 2281
Fax: +65 6561 8205