Hoping to tap a foreign pool of nurses and allied health professionals to staff its upcoming hospital and specialist centre in Novena is Parkway Holdings.
This, the health care provider can do through its new shareholder, Indian hospital chain Fortis Healthcare, said Parkway chief executive-designate Dr Tan See Leng.
"We hope to have access to their resources in terms of allied healthcare as well as nursing to support the opening (of the Novena hospital)," he said on Friday at a press briefing to announce that all 100 medical suites released in Parkway Novena hospital had been booked.
"What we can look at is a better understanding of (Fortis') training colleges, in terms of how they can supplement ours, how they can truncate and shorten the learning curve for us."
When operational in the second quarter of 2012, Parkway Novena expects to have 700 to 800 staff including 150 doctors. When fully operational, staff strength could go up to 1,300. The complex will house a 333-bed hospital and 259 medical suites catering primarily to specialists in neurology, heart and vascular medicine, orthopaedics and general surgery. It will be the first hospital with fully single-bed patient rooms.
Many of the specialists who have booked the 100 units in Parkway Novena's Phase One launch - with estimated sales exceeding $200 million - are now leasing spaces out of Lucky Plaza, Camden Medical Centre and Paragon, Dr Tan said.
The bulk of the remaining medical suites will be launched in a few days.
[SOURCE: http://www.todayonline.com]
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