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Hospital Bintulu

MY Bintulu, Malaysia · Multi-specialty

57/100 BBB Grade

Trust Index 58 · Fair

World's Best Hospitals 2026 #49 in Malaysia
How this score is built
Accreditation 30% 52
Clinical outcomes 25% 71
Reputation 20% 52
Transparency 10% 63
Track record 10% 60
Reviews 5% 45

75% of the score is objective and verifiable; the same public formula applies to every clinic.

#49 in Malaysia — World's Best Hospitals 2026 2.8★

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Sourced facts

Hospital Bintulu is a public district/regional hospital under Malaysia's Ministry of Health, opened in 2000 in Bintulu, Sarawak, and the fourth-largest hospital in the state with 292 beds (2017 figure); it offers general care plus specialist services in obstetrics & gynaecology, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, surgery and paediatrics. In September 2022 it became the first hospital in East Malaysia to achieve LEED v4 O+M Gold certification for its building.

Verified against: Wikipedia — Bintulu Hospital · IEN Consultancy — Hospital Bintulu project page (established date, LEED v4 O+M Gold certification 2022) · hospital.com.my directory — Hospital Bintulu (address, contact) · OpenStreetMap / Nominatim — Hospital Bintulu (Jalan Nyabau) geocode · existing · rankings.newsweek.com · google.com

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Patient rating
2.8/5
151 Google reviews
Trust Index
58/100
Fair
Data confidence
41%
Partial · 25% verified
Founded
2000
26 yrs

Medical Travel Cost Hospital Index

MHI · Method 1.3 Methodology →

One comparable score per hospital — each metric below is measured against the registry and weighted by the same public formula. Unsourced metrics are excluded, never guessed.

57
BBB
Newsweek World's Best #49 in Malaysia

77% of the formula backed by data

  • Trust Index 58 Our index 58/100 · vs 49 same-country hospitals · 0th percentile
  • Profile completeness 41 Our index 41% · share of our profile verified vs modeled — informational, not scored
  • Quality & reputation 52 ✓ Verified #49 in country (Newsweek/US-News) · 2.8★ Google · objective outcomes ≫ independent ranking ≫ patient reviews · 45th percentile
  • Accreditation Not sourced — · current JCI ≫ independent bodies (Magnet/CAP/DNV) ≫ historical/on-record
  • Price transparency Not sourced — · separate pricing axis — informational, not scored in the quality grade
  • Scale 63 ✓ Verified 292 beds · vs 84 sourced hospitals in the registry · 26th percentile

The composite is the weight-normalized mean of available metrics. The same method applies to every hospital in the registry. Machine-readable version below for models & crawlers.

Location & getting here

Verified 2026-07-14

Address, neighbourhood, and how long transit and airports take.

1, Jalan Nyabau, 97000 Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia

Getting here

  • Lapangan Terbang Bintulu 14.6 km · ~22 min (≈, OSM)

Patient reviews

✓ Google · verified

Google's published rating, put in context against how hospitals actually score.

2.8 / 5

151 Google reviews

Around the hospital average

Top 55%

better than ~45% of hospitals

A hospital's stars run far lower than shops or restaurants — reviews are written amid illness, big bills and stress, and unhappy patients review the most. The average hospital scores just 2.85★ on Google, so This hospital's 2.8★ sits near the top of the range.

Typical hospital2.85★
This hospital2.8★
worst hospital 1.4★best 4.6★

Rating is Google's, shown as reported (151 reviews). The "top %" is an estimate from peer-reviewed hospital-rating studies (Canadian nationwide 2018–19, n=167, mean 2.85★; US hospitals, median 3.0★) — we score against the hospital distribution, not the naive 0–5 scale.

Patients rate Hospital Bintulu 2.8★ across 151 Google reviews — around the hospital average, better than roughly 45% of hospitals on our worldwide rating benchmark.

Doctors, nurses & expertise

Sourced

The hospital's published headcount and capacity.

Beds
292
sourced

From the hospital's published figures. Nurse counts and training ratios will appear once sourced.

Independent signals

Sourced

Government quality-inspection grades, independent accreditation/certification, and insurer networks — matched from public registries, not submitted by the hospital.

Government quality grade

  • MSQH MSQH (Malaysian Society for Quality in Health) Hospital Accreditation: accredited, public hospital, Sarawak. Accreditation period 01/12/2021 - 01/12/2025. MSQH-listed range has already ended as of this collection (2026-07-19) — accreditation may be lapsed or pending renewal, not confirmed current. as of 2026 Source →

Ownership & governance

Sourced

Who owns it and how long it's operated — from public records.

Corporate

Ownership
Public · Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH)
Established
2000 · 26 yrs

From public corporate records. Complaint rates and ethics signals will appear once independently sourced.

Compare hospitals in Malaysia

Our index

Side by side on what actually decides the choice — our grade, the Newsweek ranking, patient reviews, accreditation, and real verified prices. Best in each row marked ★.

Compared with 3 other Malaysia hospitals here, Hospital Bintulu carries a B grade (#49 in Malaysia — World's Best Hospitals 2026), ranks #4 of 4 on our merit score (58).

Metric This hospital Hospital Bintulu Bintulu Sunway Medical Centre Subang Jaya Gleneagles Hospital Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Subang Jaya Medical Centre Subang Jaya
Hospital gradeNewsweek in-country rank where ranked, else our merit score B · 58 AAA · 91 AA · 86 AA · 84
Newsweek rankWorld's Best Hospitals #49 in country #1 in country #2 in country #3 in country
Patient ratingGoogle, sourced 2.8★ 4.7★ 4.4★ 4.5★
Accreditationindependent bodies 2 independent JCI JCI
Published pricesverified, comparable
From pricecheapest verified
Profile You're here Open profile Open profile Open profile

Six decision metrics on the same public formula — our grade, the Newsweek ranking, patient reviews, accreditation and real verified prices. "—" means not yet sourced, never guessed. Best in each row marked ★. All hospitals →

Common questions about Hospital Bintulu

Straight answers from the data on this page — cost, accreditation, rating, and location.

How is Hospital Bintulu rated?

Hospital Bintulu has a 2.8-star Google rating from 151 reviews, and scores 57/100 (grade BBB) on our independent Trust Index, alongside its rank of #49 in Malaysia — World's Best Hospitals 2026. The Trust Index is one public formula applied to every hospital — the

What is Hospital Bintulu known for?

Hospital Bintulu is a public district/regional hospital under Malaysia's Ministry of Health, opened in 2000 in Bintulu, Sarawak, and the fourth-largest hospital in the state with 292 beds (2017 figure); it offers general care plus specialist services in obstetrics & gynaecology, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, surgery and paediatrics. In September 2022 it became the first hospital in East Malaysia to achieve LEED v4 O+M Gold certification for its building.

Where is Hospital Bintulu?

Hospital Bintulu is located at 1, Jalan Nyabau, 97000 Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia, Bintulu, Malaysia.

Traveling to Bintulu, Malaysia

Sourced Full Malaysia guide →

Malaysia is a value-leading, English-speaking medical-travel hub coordinated by the government's Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC). Foreign patients — many from Indonesia and the wider region — come to internationally-accredited private hospitals in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Johor for cardiology, fertility, orthopaedics and screening at prices well below Singapore and the West.

Visa
Most Western nationalities (US, UK, EU, Australia) enter visa-free for 30–90 days for tourism or business; travel purely for treatment uses a medical visa.
Medical / long-stay visa
Malaysia issues a Medical Tourism e-Visa for treatment longer than the visa-free window, granted on an invitation letter from an MHTC-registered hospital via the immigration eVISA portal.
Arrival
Most travellers must complete the free Malaysia Digital Arrival Card (MDAC) online within 3 days before arrival.
Currency
Malaysian Ringgit (RM / MYR)
Languages
Malay and English are official; English is widely spoken and staff at international hospitals are English-speaking
Safety & recourse
Generally safe · Limited recourse — use a medical-travel insurer

General guidance — confirm current rules for your nationality with official sources. Verified against: Malaysia MyVISA (immigration eVISA — Medical) · Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC).

Data & sources

25% verified View verified only

How much of this profile is verified data — every section above carries a chip telling you where its numbers come from.

41%
data confidence · Partial
Verified facts25%
Profile filled81%
All 16 data fields — what's verified, imported or modeled Show more
  • Identity & location ✓ Verified
  • Accreditation Not yet collected
  • Published prices Not yet collected
  • Languages Not yet collected
  • Patient reviews ✓ Verified
  • Staff & expertise Imported
  • Safety & complications Modeled
  • Accommodation & rooms Modeled
  • Facilities & access Imported
  • Insurance & payment Modeled
  • Inclusive & accessible care Modeled
  • Ownership & governance ✓ Verified
  • Volume & outcomes Modeled
  • International-patient mix Modeled
  • Surgical team depth Modeled
  • Specialties & clinical professions ✓ Verified

Every field is tagged by source state. "Verified" = sourced and checked; "Imported" = real data pending re-verification; "Modeled" = deterministic placeholder for this preview; "Not yet collected" = on our roadmap. Confidence feeds the Trust Index and the finder's verified-only filter. Methodology →

Reviews, staff, accreditations, awards, research and inclusive-care figures are aggregated or modeled from published signals for this preview; real registry, outcome and review data replace them before launch. How we model this →

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