Eastern General Hospital Campus Commences Main Construction and Gears Up for Virtual Services

Artist’s impression of the new Eastern General Hospital Campus in Bedok North.

• Obayashi-Santarli Joint Venture is appointed as the main contractor for the development of the Eastern General Hospital Campus.

• Eastern General Hospital delivers virtual healthcare services through the SingHealth@Home initiative and primary care-to-specialist teleconsultations.

Singapore, 5 August 2025 – The Eastern General and Community Hospitals in Bedok North, collectively known as the Eastern General Hospital (EGH) Campus, have successfully completed piling works and started on main construction. This marks a significant construction milestone in the development of the EGH Campus and brings it a step closer to augmenting Singapore’s healthcare capacity in the East.

Obayashi-Santarli Joint Venture (OSJV), a partnership between Obayashi Singapore and Santarli Construction, is the appointed main contractor for the EGH Campus. OSJV will drive the construction of the campus, including working with nominated specialist contractors and system integrators to set up smart building systems, to ready the campus for its progressive opening from 2029.

When completed, the EGH Campus will have about 1,400 beds, with about 1,000 acute care beds under the Eastern General Hospital (EGH) and 400 community care beds under the Eastern Community Hospital (ECH). EGH will offer emergency, inpatient and outpatient services across a comprehensive range of clinical specialties, while ECH will provide sub-acute and rehabilitative care services, including specialised programmes for palliative and dementia care. Together, the hospitals will care for patients through multidisciplinary services and seamless care pathways, and work closely with community partners to engage residents and keep them well in the community.

Building up the EGH Campus

The nine-storey high campus will have around 250,000 square metres of floor space to house inpatient wards, specialist outpatient clinics, operating theatres, diagnostic imaging facilities, clinical support services and other healthcare facilities.

The hospital campus is designed to be digitally enabled and sustainable. It will incorporate digital solutions and smart technologies to enhance patient care, safety and efficiency. Its infrastructure will also be flexible in adapting to pandemic and emergency scenarios. For example, its spaces are designed to work well in peacetime with the option of being converted and scaled up quickly to meet evolving needs during disease outbreaks and emergencies. Clinical teams will also be able to close off specific hospital areas while maintaining operational continuity to prevent the spread of pathogens during an outbreak.

As part of EGH Campus’ commitment to environmental sustainability, the use of Singapore Green Mark products for the development of the campus is being planned. This includes using building materials, systems or components during construction to achieve sustainability goals such as energy efficiency, water conservation or low environmental impact.

“The commencement of main construction is a major step forward in the development of the EGH Campus. It brings us nearer to our goal of building a patient-centric and future-ready hospital campus that not only supports excellent and innovative care but also provides a welcoming and healing environment for our patients and the community,” said Professor Lee Chien Earn, Chairman, EGH Campus Hospital Planning Committee. “As we build the physical hospital, the EGH Campus team also continues in our efforts to design our healthcare services and test new technologies, so as to transform care delivery and improve treatment outcomes.”

EGH runs virtual healthcare services

As a hospital that embraces innovation, EGH staff will serve patients even before its physical campus is ready. It will do so through virtual healthcare services, beginning with the Mobile Inpatient Care at Home (MIC@Home) programme and primary care-to-specialist telecollaboration.

Under SingHealth@Home, which is SingHealth’s MIC@Home programme, EGH staff will augment Changi General Hospital (CGH)’s team in treating its virtual ward patients for acute inpatient conditions in the comfort of their own homes. The SingHealth@Home programme leverages teleconsultations and remote monitoring capabilities, combined with home visits, to care for the patients.

EGH is also part of a pioneering team in SingHealth implementing a primary care-to-specialist telecollaboration service known as Virtual Professional Consultation (VPC), which connects medical specialists with primary care providers such as family physicians in SingHealth Polyclinics and general practitioners. Under the VPC, EGH’s medical specialists engage in timely, two-way communication with primary care doctors on clinical consultations and specialist advice. This enhances care planning and decision-making for complex or specialised cases that may arise in the community and ensures timely clinical management for patients without necessarily requiring a specialist referral for a hospital clinic visit. Additionally, it builds patient confidence in primary care services and supports holistic healthcare provision in the community.

Within the VPC service, EGH has been actively involved in implementing various medical specialities such as respiratory medicine, cardiology, endocrinology and renal medicine. EGH plans to work with SingHealth to expand the service to cover more clinical specialties and conditions, and to reach a wider network of primary care providers.

EGH’s clinical and non-clinical teams will soon begin “nesting” in SingHealth’s hospitals such as CGH, Sengkang General Hospital (SKH), Singapore General Hospital (SGH), and SingHealth’s national specialty centres from 2026. The nesting initiative will allow the EGH workforce to build up its work processes, train new staff and gain invaluable experience of running hospital operations as a new team. The EGH workforce can then be operationally ready when the EGH Campus construction is completed.