Johns Hopkins Singapore International Medical Centre
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Johns Hopkins Singapore International Medical Centre is a hospital
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....

 and a member of the National Healthcare Group
National Healthcare Group
National Healthcare Group is a Singapore group of healthcare institutions. The group was formed in 2000 and has one public hospital across the island, three specialist centres and runs eight polyclinics as well. The group operates Tan Tock Seng Hospital and the Institute of Mental Health...

 in Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. Located in Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
The Tan Tock Seng Hospital is the second-largest hospital in Singapore after the Singapore General Hospital, but its accident and emergency department is the busiest in the country largely due to its geographically centralised location...

, it was opened in 2000 and is the only facility owned and managed by Johns Hopkins Medicine International
Johns Hopkins Medicine International
Johns Hopkins Medicine International is a partnership program established by the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to raise the standard of health care through long-term, mission-driven agreements.-Hospital Management:...

 outside the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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The centre has 30 inpatient beds, including a high-end presidential suite for dignitaries and an outpatient unit for chemotherapy. It services local and foreign patients from Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

Johns Hopkins Singapore International Medical Centre is part of the Cancer Therapeutics Research Group (CTRG), a research collaboration to engage the expertise of member institutions in developing novel therapies for cancer through clinical trials. The other members of the CTRG are the National University Hospital
National University Hospital
The National University Hospital , established in 1985, is Singapore's only university hospital. It serves as a tertiary hospital as well as a clinical training centre and a research centre for the medical and dental faculties of the National University of Singapore...

 (NUH), National University of Singapore
National University of Singapore
The National University of Singapore is Singapore's oldest university. It is the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum offered....

 (NUS), Sydney Cancer Centre / University of Sydney
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong is a research-led university in Hong Kong.CUHK is the only tertiary education institution in Hong Kong with Nobel Prize winners on its faculty, including Chen Ning Yang, James Mirrlees, Robert Alexander Mundell and Charles K. Kao...

 (CUHK) and National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS).
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