KPJ Healthcare Berhad’s Managing Director, Datin Paduka Siti Sa’diah Sheikh Bakir and other members visting the hospital.
Due to an anticipated increased in demand for private hospitals in the
northern region, KPJ has identified the need for another new hospital at
Bandar Perda to complement the current KPJ hospital namely Bukit
Mertajam Specialist Hospital (BMSH). BMSH is a six-storey building
located at Jalan Sungai Rambai Bukit Mertajam which is formerly known as
Medicare Specialist Centre. Established in 1994, the hospital was built
to fulfill the objectives of providing comprehensive and quality
healthcare services to the population of Bukit Mertajam and its
surrounding areas. The hospital has been achieving many success stories
and is currently recognized as the leading specialist hospital in Bukit
Mertajam. Managed by the experienced KPJ management team and equipped
with state-of-the-art medical facilities and equipment, the hospital’s
name was then subsequently changed to Bukit Mertajam Specialist
Hospital, to reflect the new ownership and management.
Staff sitting in the ceremony of the placement of its last piece of brick.
According to the KPJ’s Managing Director, Datin Paduka Siti Sa’diah
Sheikh Bakir, the building of the new hospital is timely, due to the
increased expectation of customers who need bigger capacity hospital
with better facilities. The decision to choose Bandar PERDA for another
KPJ hospital is substantiated by the fact that this new hospital needs
to cater to customers in the northern peninsular and to complement the
current capacity of BMSH. With a number of 20 consultants and more than
200 staff, this hospital is poised to achieve more ground breaking
success in the near future.
Staff sitting in the ceremony
KPJ currently has achieved many milestones in its more than 25 years of
involvement in Malaysia’s healthcare industry, having started with only
one hospital in Johor (Johor Specialist Hospital) in 1981. With the new
addition of Taiping Medical Centre at the end of 2007, KPJ now has 18
hospitals in Malaysia, 3 hospitals in Indonesia, 1 in Bangladesh and 2
in Saudi Arabia as well as an international college, the PNC
International College of Nursing and Health Sciences (PNC) in Nilai,
Negeri Sembilan. A new PNC branch will be opened in Johor Bahru within
the first quarter of this year to cater to an increasing demand for
nursing education. To date, PNC has produced more than 1500 trained
nurses to meet global requirements under the banner “Nurses for the
World’.
Staff in the ceremony.
KPJ Healthcare Berhad is the first homegrown healthcare group in Malaysia listed on the Main Board of Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange on 29 November 1994. With more than RM1.2 billion in assets and shareholders’ funds in excess of RM491 million, KPJ is now leading the largest group of healthcare provider in the country with paid up capital of RM207 million.
KPJ embarked on many initiatives to improve the Quality of Care to customers including the accreditation by Malaysian Society for Quality in Health (MSQH). Presently five hospitals in the Group have been accredited by MSQH, namely Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospitals, Damansara Specialist Hospital, Ipoh Specialist Hospital, Johor Specialist Centre and Selangor Medical Centre.
KPJ portfolio includes hospital management, healthcare technical services, hospital development and commissioning, nursing, health sciences and continuous professional healthcare education, pathology services, central procurement and retail pharmacy.
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