{"id":386375,"date":"2026-01-02T07:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386375\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T07:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:27:06","slug":"woodlands-health-renamed-as-woodlands-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386375\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodlands Health renamed as Woodlands Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 Public hospital Woodlands Health has been officially renamed as Woodlands Hospital, with effect from Jan 2. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The change is part of healthcare group NHG Health\u2019s initiative to unify branding across all its institutions, said the hospital in a statement on the same day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Apart from the name change, there will be no changes to the hospital\u2019s location, services or operations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Opened in 2024, Woodlands Hospital has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/opening-of-woodlands-health-has-eased-load-on-ktph-sets-standard-for-future-hospitals-ong-ye-kung?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">eased the load<\/p>\n<p><\/a> on the nearby Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, which had been the sole public hospital serving most of northern Singapore since 2010. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Woodlands is set to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/health\/woodlands-to-become-first-singapore-town-to-customise-health-activities-for-its-residents?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">Singapore\u2019s first Health Promoting Town<\/p>\n<p><\/a>, a pilot scheme under Healthier SG that aims to implement health initiatives specifically tailored to its residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Healthier SG is a national initiative focusing on preventive healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>SingaporePublic hospitalsHospitalsHealthcareNHG Health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE \u2013 Public hospital Woodlands Health has been officially renamed as Woodlands Hospital, with effect from Jan 2.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-386375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}