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St Luke’s Hospital (SLH) is a 185-bed Christian community hospital, providing medical, nursing and rehabilitative services. Every year, the hospital provides quality service and compassionate care to over 1,900 elderly inpatients, regardless of race and religion. More than 90% of our patients are highly subsidised. Our outpatient clinics, day rehabilitation services and home care services are also popular with the community and have registered 20,000 attendance a year. To serve more patients, the hospital is expanding with the building of a new wing to add 48 beds and a bigger, better-equipped inpatient gym, day rehabilitation centre and outpatient clinic. St Luke’s Hospital still needs to raise over $4 million this year in order to meet our operating deficit.

St Luke’s Eldercare (SLEC) runs 12 eldercare centres across Singapore to serve the elderly in Ayer Rajah, Bukit Timah, Clementi, Hougang, Hougang Central, Jurong East, Serangoon, Tampines, Telok Blangah, Whampoa, Yishun and Changkat. These centres provide services in social day care to care for frail and lonely elderly, rehabilitation services to help those elderly recovering from stroke and wellness programme to promote active aging for more than 1,200 elderly. As SLEC continues to expand to serve the increasing aging population in the community, there is an immediate call to raise another $520,000 to equip the centres with new vans retrofitted with wheelchair lifters to transfer the elderly. In addition, with 90% of our elderly being heavily subsidised by us, SLEC will need to raise more than $1.5 million every year to cover its operating deficits.