HCA Day Hospice Reopens Following Major Fire
HCA’s Day Hospice has officially reopened following a devastating fire on 5 January 2021, that damaged most of its main office and left the Day Hospice nonoperational.
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27 Mar 2025
“A place of warmth, laughter, and life – far from what most expect of a day hospice.” This is how Assistant Nurse Manager Serene describes HCA Oasis@Outram Day Hospice, a place that prioritises dignity, diversity and development, while challenging the traditional notion of palliative care. Beyond nursing care, Serene celebrates life at the centre, singing with patients and even serving cocktails on rollerblades. Seeing her patients daily, her bonds run deep, and she often visits discharged patients during their final moments at home.
Watch Before You Go – HCA Oasis@Outram Day Hospice
13 Mar 2025
HCA’s What does it take to pivot from flying in the skies to serving on the ground? HCA’s Operations & Admin Manager, Lim Sing Hui, shares her inspiring story on how she made the leap from airforce pilot to hospice care.
Motivated by her father’s experience in a hospice, she is driven by a deeply personal mission to create good days by bringing comfort and joy at the end-of-life. Share her journey as Sing Hui opens up about her purpose and passion, and the advice she would give her younger self.
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7 Mar 2025
Support patients and families through grief and complex psychosocial needs can be emotionally demanding for palliative care professionals too. HCA Medical Social Worker Shannon Sim also went through a difficult period at the start of her career, with signs pointing to her being burnt out. Yet, she is thankful that HCA Hospice provides access to external therapists and in-house counselling and allows workers to take sabbatical leave.
5 Mar 2025
At the end of life, some struggle with finding connection, peace and purpose. As HCA’s only spiritual care counsellor, Irene helps patients and families navigate this journey, transforming grief into strength. Spiritual care goes beyond religious beliefs. It is about finding meaning, healing unresolved emotions and embracing enduring love. Through Irene’s guidance, cherished memories become a source of comfort, a celebration of a life well lived.
Watch Before You Go – Spiritual Care Counsellor
27 Feb 2025
HCA Hospice’s Medical Director, Dr Chong Poh Heng, was a guest on The Financial Coconut, a local financial literacy podcast. The episode discussed retirement and Dr Chong shared about how end-of-life planning should be included in retirement discussions.
26 Feb 2025
HCA Hospice’s volunteer, Janet Lee, was featured in the second episode of Before You Go. As a Vigil Angel, Janet helps to give patients in their final days a dignified departure by cleaning and massaging their bodies. Despite the emotional challenges she faces, Janet continues to press on as she derives meaning from helping her patients pass on peacefully. The episode also highlights how the compassion of a Vigil Angel works hand in hand with the medical expertise of nurses like Yen Ein, creating a network of care for families in their most vulnerable moments.
Watch Before You Go – Vigil Angels
19 Feb 2025
HCA Hospice MSWs, Jia Sen and Shannon, were featured in Before You Go, a documentary spotlighting palliative care providers and how they journey alongside patients and their families through the final chapter of life. Shannon organised a living funeral on behalf of 48-year-old Carolyn, allowing her to have a heartfelt farewell and reunion with her loved ones. Meanwhile, Jia Sen helped 96-year-old Madam Kamala to create memories with her family, despite the struggles caused by her declining health.
Watch Before You Go – Medical Social Workers
19 Jan 2025
HCA Hospice collaborated with NTU undergraduates to launch a grief literacy campaign for young adults. This was done through the provision of physical and digital resources on supporting the bereaved as well as grief management from HCA’s Psychosocial Services team.
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15 Jan 2025
In an inspiring show of community support, HCA Hospice (HCA) celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2024 and concluded the year with a fundraising milestone of $5.5M that will go towards serving patients with life-limiting conditions and their families. The funds raised will help ensure that HCA can continue providing vital care, support, and comfort to those in need, while sustaining our essential services and day-to-day operations.
3 Jan 2025
HCA Hospice was awarded the Special Merit Award at the Singapore Prestige Brand Awards, a new sub-category of the award which recognises public and non-profit agencies that make significant efforts in branding.
27 Nov 2024
We wish to inform the public about a recent recruitment scam involving HCA Hospice (HCA) that has been circulating on TikTok. It has come to our attention that an individual has posed as a HCA recruitment officer, misleading a victim into making financial transactions in exchange for a job.
On 3 September, a TikTok account under the name ‘mai’ posted a fraudulent advertisement for a role with HCA. The scammer requested for a $500 down payment from the victim – a foreign domestic worker – to register her name for an interview. Shortly after payment, an interview was conducted via WhatsApp. The victim then received a message claiming to be from HCA, offering her the role on the pretext that she spoke Mandarin, while also falsely identifying HCA as a nursing home. The victim was asked to pay two separate payments of $1,000 and $1,500 and to fly to Bangkok for two weeks while awaiting for the in-principle approval from the Ministry of Manpower.
The TikTok account has since been taken down and a police report has been filed. HCA will also be logging the case with the authorities.
HCA would like to clarify the following and urge all job seekers to be cautious of such scams:
– HCA does not have an official TikTok account and is not affiliated with the account in any way. We have not posted any job opportunities on the platform.
– HCA will not request for any form of payment from job applicants for job placement, application processing, or training at any point.
– HCA does not conduct interviews via WhatsApp.
– HCA is not a nursing home.
– HCA will not request for job applicants to fly overseas for any purpose during the application process.
Job applicants may verify the authenticity of any job openings with HCA at [email protected].
4 Apr 2023
Naughty or nice? Jade Seah proves you can be both, with her Naughty Forty birthday celebration. The TV personality, who turns 40 on 6 April, held an intimate birthday party with her family and friends last Saturday.
In lieu of gifts, the veteran media personality invited her loved ones to share her joy by making a donation to three charities of her choice, one of which is HCA Hospice (HCA).
1 Mar 2023
HCA Hospice (HCA) has transitioned to an integrated, one-stop model for its equipment loan service, which continues to be offered at no charge to all terminally ill patients under its care.
28 Sep 2022
HCA Hospice (HCA) has collaborated with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra (SCO) to bring an afternoon of music and fun to its Day Hospice patients and their loved ones.
06 Sep 2022
HCA Hospice Limited (HCA) has appointed Ms Tan Soh Keng as its new Chairperson, who was selected by a majority vote following HCA’s 1st Annual General Meeting (AGM), on 20 August 2022, with immediate effect.
31 May 2022
本地肖战粉丝后援会‘小飞侠’前日（5月29日）携手慈善机构HCA慈怀护理，为癌末病患岑慧琴（62岁）筹办了一场意义非凡的肖战粉丝聚会，圆了她的心愿，也让她最后的时光里留下了美好的回忆。
10 Mar 2022
HCA Hospice Care (HCA) has launched the Taking Flight Exhibition at i12 Katong to fulfil a late patient’s final wish to showcase her works and share her passion for art.
03 Jan 2022
HCA Hospice Care (HCA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Karen Lee as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
09 Apr 2021
HCA Hospice Care (HCA) has launched The Seasons of Art Virtual Charity Exhibition to fulfil a patient’s final wish to showcase his works. For HCA patient Lee How Son, 67, art is a great source of joy that has accompanied him through the trials of life.
08 Feb 2021
HCA’s Day Hospice has officially reopened following a devastating fire on 5 January 2021, that damaged most of its main office and left the Day Hospice nonoperational.
26 Jan 2021
A new ground-up initiative dubbed “The Life Art” has been launched by Singaporean IT professional, Tracy Quah, with the support of homegrown art platform Sound of Art. Together, they started an art fundraiser to raise funds for HCA Hospice Care (HCA), Singapore’s largest home hospice care provider, through the sale of co-created paintings with the hospice patients.
06 Jan 2021
On 5 January 2021 at 8.26pm, a fire broke out at HCA Hospice Headquarters, located at Block A of Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital on Serangoon Road.
09 Nov 2020
HCA Hospice Care (HCA) is organising The Vertical Challenge 2020 to raise $300,000, which will fund 1,000 home visits to provide care and comfort to patients with life-limiting illnesses.
12 Oct 2020
追星并不稀奇，但是近年来更多粉丝以明星的名义为慈善献力，让追星活动更添意义。31岁的宋美玲是中国当红艺人肖战的忠实粉丝，为庆祝肖战29岁生日，美玲在网上发起募款行动为本地慈善机构HCA慈怀护理筹款。
12 Oct 2019
Nurse Ya Nee truly exemplifies the spirit of going beyond the call of duty. A marketing professional-turned-nurse, she was one of the first riders and staff to sign up for The Dandelion Ride, dedicating time and effort outside of work to raise awareness of the cause among her friends and family.
10 May 2019
HCA Hospice Care (HCA), Singapore’s largest home hospice provider, officially opened its doors at the Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital (KWSH) today.
15 Mar 2019
HCA Hospice Care (HCA) celebrates 30 years of providing hospice care to support people who are terminally ill, regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, nationality and financial status, to spend the last moments of their lives with dignity and comfort, among their loved ones.
21 Sep 2018
Abu Samah Bin Mohamed’s days are numbered. The 62 year old, a patient of HCA Hospice Care (HCA), was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer in February this year. Despite the shock of the devastating diagnosis, Abu Samah Bin Mohamed remains positive and optimistic, fuelled by his love for his family. The cheerful man is also an enthusiastic musician, a lifelong passion that began when he first picked up the guitar at 16.
10 Jul 2017
HCA Hospice Care (HCA) is again privileged to have the support of Singapore’s renowned ultra-distance runner Mr Lim Ngee Huat (age 64) as he takes on this gruelling challenge in the United Kingdom, between 19 to 23 August 2017.
22 Feb 2017
HCA Hospice Care (HCA) and The Sapling today hosted a 3-course lunch at the café forabout 80 guests to launch the cookbook A lifetime’s legacy of Home Cooked Favourites.
09 Sep 2016
A group of 30 ultramarathoners from Trailblazers100 conquered a combined distance of 1,456km around Singapore and raised a total of S$268,000 for HCA Hospice Care.
25 Aug 2016
Lim Nghee Huat, Ultramarathoner came in 5th across England at the Ultra Great Britain, after running 320km coast-to-coast along the Trans-Pennine Trail to raise funds and awareness for HCA Hospice Care’s patients.
21 Apr 2016
Life took a turn for the worst when happy-go-lucky and out-going art student Muhammad Khairul Ikwan, 23, was diagnosed with Stage 4 colorectal cancer and two months to live, in October 2015.
