I N T R O D U C T I O N

The St. Andrew’s Medical Mission, founded in 1913, is a testimony of faith and vision, as well as a living miracle of God's love and compassion for mankind. Inspired and guided by God, many different hands have sterred the course of the Medical Mission.

The Mission was initiated by Dr. Charlotte Ferguson-Davie, a medical doctor and wife of the first Anglican Bishop of Singapore. Her compassion for the sick poor and her tireless effort led to the opening of a dispensary at Bencoolen Street on St. Luke's Day, 18 October 1913. More healthcare services followed. Over the years, it set up and consolidated various health services ranging from dispensaries in the early years, St. Andrew’s Mission Hospital in 1923, St. Andrew’s Orthopaedic Hospital for Children in 1939 and more recently, St. Andrew’s Community Hospital in 1992. The work of the Medical Mission has had one common thread - meeting the healthcare needs of the underserved and the disadvantaged.

Today, St. Andrew's Mission Hospital is a non-profit voluntary welfare organisation. Its services have expanded and evolved so as to minister not just to the physcial well-being but also to the emotional, social and special needs of the community. It has been repositioned to be the corporate headquarters that oversees the operations of:

• St. Andrew’s Community Hospital - for rehabilitative and sub-acute care;
• St. Andrew’s Mission Hospital Clinics - general outpatient services located at Simei (within St. Andrew's Community Hospital) and Elliot Road (within St. Andrew's Autism Centre), and mobile medical services to communities-in-need;
• St. Andrew’s Lifestreams – providing training and education in counselling and pastoral care; and
• St. Andrew's Autism Centre - a one-stop centre for autism care.

Our Vision

To be a light in a dark place,

that ignorance would be replaced by knowledge and understanding,

physical distress by comfort and healing.