Phone +65 6665 2035 | ||
Address 31 Bukit Batok Street 52, Singapore 650540 Similar Bright Vision Hospital, St Luke's Hospital - Singapore, Ang Mo Kio ‑ Thye Hua Kwan Ho, Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital, Alexandra Hospital Profiles | ||
Ren Ci Hospital (Chinese: 仁慈医院), formerly known as Ren Ci Hospital and Medicare Centre, is one of the first few charity healthcare institutions in Singapore to provide affordable healthcare and rehabilitative services in Singapore. Established in 1994, Ren Ci Hospital currently has three facilities Ren Ci Community Hospital (Irrawaddy), Ren Ci Nursing Home (Moulmein) and Ren Ci@Bukit Batok St. 52 (Nursing Home). Ren Ci Long Term Care (Hougang) has been shifted to Communuity Hospital in December 2014 under a specialised unit called Chronic Sick Unit. Besides government subvention, Ren Ci Hospital also relies heavily on public support and donation.
The hospital's CEO Shi Ming Yi performed stunts to help the patients to raise funds in the annual charity programme on Channel U since the first charity programme started in 2003.
Ren Ci made headlines when the Ministry of Health (MOH) announced that the charity is being probed for 'possible irregularities in certain financial transactions'. An audit found that the charity had made interest-free loans amounting to a few million dollars to various companies since 1996. There were discrepancies between what the charity recorded it lent and what the companies involved recorded as having borrowed. In 2009, Ming Yi was convicted on four charges for misappropriating Ren Ci funds, making unauthorized loans and giving false information to the Commissioner for Charities. The Charity's Institute of Public Character (IPC) status was not renewed as a result of the outcome of the investigation. It regained its IPC status on 5 August 2008.