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60Th Anniversary Issue 60 years frame version.pdf 1 19/3/21 11:33 AM 60TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE C M Y CM MY CY CMY K HSC_60th Anniversary Poster_02 A4.pdf 1 25/3/21 3:39 PM After 60 years, we’re still going strong and serving all with love! Here’s to Contents more healthy years with CEO's Message 4 COVER STORIES MEDICINE TODAY Our 60th Anniversary Logo 5 Celebrating 60 Years of 16 COVID-19 Vaccines 50 Dear Doc 7 Serving All with Love Your Questions Answered us with these An Anniversary 21 Midwifery Then and Now 54 Gift, Delivered SHORT TAKES Looking at Floaters 56 Celebrating Their 22 health screening packages. New Years, New Lives 8 Diamond Jubilee BABY & YOU Prime Package Singapore Health Quality 10 Congratulations to 24 60 Service Awards 2021 Our Long Service Breastfeeding for Beginners 58 Men ($556.40 nett) Women ($556.40 nett) COVID-19 Vaccination 11 Award Recipients How to Emotionally Prepare 60 for Parenthood When You Other Packages: We're Getting Better 12 Kind Words 28 • Chest X-ray • Chest X-ray Are Expecting • Full Blood Count • Full Blood Count All the Time Look How Far We've 40 • Glucose • Glucose Blood Donation Drive 14 • Bone Mineral Screen • Bone Mineral Screen Exclusive Come Together JUNIOR & MUMMY • Uric Acid • Uric Acid $1,027.20 nett Men A Commemorative 15 Community Outreach 42 C • Renal Function Test • Renal Function Test Anniversary Gift Through the Years Fussy? Gassy? Crying? 62 $1,155.60 nett Women M • Liver Function Test • Liver Function Test • Lipid Profile • Lipid Profile A Caregiver's Advice on 64 Y • Thyroid Screen • Thyroid Screen Knowing When to Items in package are non- CONVERSATION WITH • Treponema Pallidium (Syphilis) Total Antibody • Treponema Pallidium (Syphilis) Total Antibody CM refundable if declined. Health Seek Help • Cancer Marker - Colon • Cancer Marker - Colon screenings are strictly by Dr Julian Theng and 46 MY • Cancer Marker - Liver • Cancer Marker - Liver appointment only. Dr Colin Theng • Hepatitis B Antibody • Hepatitis A Screen CY SENIOR LIVING • Hepatitis B Antigen • Hepatitis B Antibody CMY • Anthropometry (Height, Weight, Fat Analysis) • Hepatitis B Antigen At 60 66 • Resting ECG • HIV Screen K • Urine FEME • Anthropometry (Height, Weight, Fat Analysis) • Stool for Occult Blood • Ultrasound - Abdomen IN THE PINK • Hepatitis A Screen • Resting ECG Building Resilience 68 • HIV Screen • Urine FEME • Ultrasound - Abdomen • Stool for Occult Blood 15 11 Living Longer, Living Better 71 Premier Men ($725.88 nett) Women ($854.29 nett) Additional test for Premier Package Additional test for Premier Package • Cancer Marker - Prostate • Cancer Marker - Ovarian • Cancer Marker - Pancreas • Cancer Marker - Pancreas • Ultrasound - Abdomen • Bone Mineral Screen • Ultrasound - Prostate • Ultrasound - Pelvis • Rheumatoid Factor • Mammogram Scan the QR code • Bone Mineral Screen • Rheumatoid Factor for more details 46 Mount Alvernia Hospital reserves the right to make changes to the package without prior notice. Make an appointment or find out more by contacting us at: Mount Alvernia Hospital Health Screening Centr e Operating Hours Tel: 6347 6215 | Email: [email protected] Monday to Friday: 8am – 5pm | Saturday: 8am – 1pm | Sunday & Public Holidays: Closed 41 www.mtalvernia.sg 820 Thomson Road Tel: 6347 6688 www.facebook.com/mtalverniahospital Singapore 574623 Email: [email protected] www.instagram.com/mtalverniahospital t has been 60 years since the hospital was first This year, we also celebrate the diamond jubilee of two of our opened by the Franciscan Missionaries of the FMDM sisters, Sister Bernadette and Sister Florence. We salute Divine Motherhood (FMDM) Sisters in 1961. them for 60 years of religious life in mission. Originally known as a maternity and paediatric hospital, Mount Alvernia Hospital has transformed Sister Bernadette was a nurse in the maternity wards in the itself into a 319-bedder multi-disciplinary general 1960s, during which she served many patients. Later, she hospital to serve the changing healthcare needs of worked for many years in the Pastoral Care Department, where the community over the years. she touched many lives with her love and compassion for the patients and their relatives. In April 2015, Sister Bernadette In the near future, more hospital developments like the new received the Healthcare Humanity Awards presented to maternity and paediatric centre and an integrated oncology Healthcare workers who have inspired the public with their services centre will further define and shape our services to exemplary compassion and commitment to deliver quality care meet the ever-evolving medical needs of the population. with empathy for their patients. We were very happy to hold our 2-hour ‘live’ 60th Anniversary Trained as a nurse, Sister Florence served many years in the virtual event on 4 March 2021, where close to 300 guests tuned hospital and managed the hospital from 1980 to 1983 as the in to join in the celebrations. The virtual event was also aired on Hospital Administrator. By that time, there were already more than our hospital’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. 200 beds in the hospital. She assisted in numerous surgeries, served many patients, and did a lot of work fundraising for needy After a warm welcome and a trip down memory lane, during patients in both Mount Alvernia Hospital and Assisi Hospice. which the milestones of the hospital’s 60 years of journey were recapped, a series of pre-recorded congratulatory messages While the hospital continues to grow in both capabilities and were shared. The messages hailed from far and wide, and capacities, the Mount Alvernia Hospital family will always aim to included greetings from the Archbishop of Singapore and the live our core principles and values – to provide excellent medical th Minister for Health. services with compassion and care for everyone who enters Our 60 Anniversary Logo our doors. Another highlight of the event was the debut of an original song, ‘The Alvernia Way’. The moving piece was specially Let us continue to serve all with love and touch many more lives We share some insights on the symbolism of our anniversary logo. composed, arranged and performed by colleagues and friends in the years ahead. of the hospital to commemorate our 60th Anniversary. It tells THE GRAPHIC the story of our hospital’s heritage, paying tribute to how our Happy 60th Anniversary! The line drawing depicts Mount Alvernia Hospital’s first building in Singapore, while the use of handwritten fonts and staff have continued to live the values of our FMDM Sisters nature-inspired graphics adds warmth and nostalgia. The five doves circling the logo represent Mount Alvernia Hospital’s while embracing change and moving forward during these fundamental values of Compassion, Humility, Integrity, Respect and Peace. Their strategic arrangement in a circular formation unprecedented times. suggests the synergy between these values, and how together they enable our people to go the extra mile for one another, patients, their families, and the underserved in the community. Dr James Lam Kian Ming CEO THE TAGLINE Mount Alvernia Hospital The anniversary tagline ‘Serving all with Love’ reflects the wisdom and inspiration of our founding Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood (FMDM) Sisters, which we embrace and perpetuate daily. More significantly, it expresses our hospital’s commitment to providing holistic healthcare, raising the quality of care, and serving patients with love – 60 years and beyond. 4 60TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE 60TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE 5 Dear D C About Giddiness Editor Kenice Tay THE RIGHT NUTRITIONAL What are the possible or prolonged vomiting or diarrhoea, Writers causes of giddiness? especially with poor oral intake; and Weena Lim Q significantly high or low blood pressure Suzanne Lauridsen SUPPORT IS KEY FOR A Conditions which may cause or blood sugar readings. Contributor giddiness include the following: A Anthony Goh Tee Kow 1-3 conditions of the brain such as What if I still feel giddy even STRONGER IMMUNE SYSTEM stroke, bleed, tumour and migraine; after lying down? What if I Editorial Advisor vestibular or inner ear disorders; Qconstantly feel giddy? 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