Mr Foo Hee Jug is the Chief Executive Officer of Jurong Health Services (JurongHealth), a new public healthcare cluster in the western region of Singapore that manages the 700-bed Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, the 400-bed Jurong Community Hospital as well as Jurong Medical Centre.

With 23 years of experience in public healthcare, Mr Foo has helmed several key positions including Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Changi General Hospital, COO at Singapore General Hospital, with concurrent appointments as SingHealth’s Group COO and Group Chief Procurement Officer. At these institutions, he was responsible for driving infrastructure development, operations effectiveness and efficiency and quality at the organisational level. For his key role during the SARS outbreak in 2003, he was conferred the National Day Commendation by the President of Singapore.

He also serves on various public sector committees and boards, such as the Workplace Safety and Health Council, The JurongHealth Fund Board, the South West Development Council, the HomeTeamNS Board of Governors and the Nanyang Polytechnic’s School of Health Sciences Advisory Committee.

Mr Foo holds Master in Business Administration and Master in Public Health  (Health Services Management) degrees from the Anderson School, University of California, Los Angeles. In 2007, he attended the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School.

Synopsis - The Journey To Pioneer Singapore's First Integrated Development Of An Acute General Hospital And Community Hospital
Singapore’s newest public hospitals, the 700-bed Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NTFGH) and 400-bed Jurong Community Hospital (JCH), are the country’s first integrated healthcare development of an acute and community hospital, designed and built together from ground up as a single project, to complement each other to deliver hassle-free and patient-centred care.

This is the story of the team at JurongHealth, helmed by Mr Foo Hee Jug, Chief Executive Officer, who came together with a collective vision to build a regional healthcare ecosystem for the community in the west.  Centred around the needs of the patients and their caregivers, the twinning concept of NTFGH and JCH aims to streamline the patient’s journey and set a new benchmark with the patient-centred design.

Pioneering several firsts, the design saw many innovations that make a difference to patient care, comfort, safety and convenience along with new systems and streamlined processes to transform the delivery of care not just within the hospital but between the two hospitals as well as beyond the walls of the hospitals, working with partners in the whole care continuum as a Regional Healthcare System.