Tung Shin Hospital

Tung Shin Hospital (simplified, traditional, pinyin: Tóngshàn Yīyuàn), formerly known as Pooi Shin Thong, is a 221-bed tertiary acute care hospital in Jalan Pudu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia established by Kapitan Yap Kwan Seng. The not-for-profit private hospital is accredited by the Malaysian Society for Quality in Health. It started as a provider of Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment in 1881, later it was called the Tung Shin Hospital from 1894 as it was converted to a non-profit organisation, the Western Medicine division commenced operations in 1985. Additional buildings and renovations were made in 1917 - with prominent tycoon Cheong Yoke Choy donating a large sum to the hospital to build a new single-storey ward building, which was what was then Ward 1 - and again between 1959 and the early 1960s. It owns and operates Tung Shin Academy of Nursing, a private nursing college located in Pudu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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