SINGAPORE – A total of S$1.4 million was been raised for the JurongHealth Fund (JHF), which supports Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NTFGH) and Jurong Community Hospital (JCH) through the funding of programmes that promote medical and health-related services for the benefit of the Singapore community. The funds were raised through an 8-month long campaign comprising various fundraising efforts, including many staff-driven events, culminating in the NTFGH Benefit Dinner 2025, held on Thursday, 16 October 2025 at The Ballroom, The Fullerton Hotel Singapore. Graced by Minister for Health Mr Ong Ye Kung as Guest-of-Honour, the Dinner was held in commemoration of the official opening of NTFGH and JCH 10 years ago.
The theme of the Benefit Dinner, “A Symphony of Care – Changing Lives Together”, reflects the hospitals’ efforts over the past decade in extending care beyond the traditional boundaries of medical treatment – from the hospital into the community. Proceeds from the dinner, together with the staff-led campaigns, go towards JHF.
JHF supports programmes under four key objectives: needy patients, community care, education, and research. These initiatives are made possible through passionate healthcare workers and the strong support of partners who share the vision of helping residents stay healthy, recover from illness, and age well and gracefully at home. In addition to providing financial and social support to needy patients, JHF has also enabled staff development and empowerment, and supported new models of transitional, integrative, and preventive care to close gaps and improve quality of life for the community.
The Benefit Dinner will cap the “Symphony of Care” fundraising campaign, involving hundreds of staff and featuring a series of creative, staff-driven activities. Highlights included a Nurses’ Day celebration and fundraising activity; an art event and exhibition which invited staff to paint canvases commemorating a decade of memories; and a fitness challenge where our senior leaders collectively ran 300km in 10 weeks. More than 30 staff-led initiatives, such as a Bukit Timah Hill clean-up held over 10 weeks, a charity car wash and staff bazaars further rallied staff and stakeholders in meaningful ways.
A silent auction featuring pieces by prominent artists, including works by the late Cultural Medallion recipient Mr Lim Tze Peng, concluded at the dinner event. In addition, donation pledge cards and outright contributions were also collected during the dinner. Proceeds from the auction, along with those from all fundraising activities, go towards JHF.
As a registered charity and Institution of a Public Character (IPC), JHF has championed more than 50 programmes, impacting over 80,000 beneficiaries in the western region of Singapore to date.
At the Benefit Dinner, Associate Professor Dan Yock Young, CEO of NTFGH and JCH shared about the Jurong Ageing Resilience Project. As Singapore reaches super aged status next year, frailty prevalence is expected to increase. With frailty associated with higher mortality and disability rates, as well as poorer quality of life, the hospitals will be doubling down on efforts to enable healthy ageing in place, to optimise intrinsic capacity and functional ability. Designed as a “health trampoline” to help seniors bounce back from illness and remain well in the community, the project dovetails with NUHS’ Care Plan which aims to strengthen care in the community to meet diverse health needs across different life stages. The project will endeavour to make care convenient and closer to home, through a premise neutral health eco-system to provide personalised and holistic support for ageing in place. Using Smart AI to define high-risk groups with acute illness trajectory, as well as physical and cognitive frailty, the project aims to pre-empt individualised support for such high-risk groups, to improve patient outcomes and reduce avoidable hospital visits. The project will also pursue novel care models of intervention beyond the hospital, to include social intervention and monitoring.
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