Hospital Umum Sarawak
MY Kuching, Malaysia · Multi-specialty
Trust Index 58 · Fair
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Hospital Umum Sarawak (Sarawak General Hospital) is the largest hospital in Sarawak and, alongside Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu, one of East Malaysia's two main tertiary referral centres. A public Ministry of Health facility in Kuching tracing its origins to 1870, it has grown to 1,005 beds with subspecialty medicine units (nephrology, cardiology, neurology, rheumatology, respiratory, gastroenterology, haematology, infectious diseases) and a Clinical Research Centre running Phase I trials.
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- Patient rating
- 2.9/5
- 616 Google reviews
- Trust Index
- 58/100
- Fair
- Data confidence
- 41%
- Partial · 25% verified
- Founded
- 1870
- 156 yrs
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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.
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 55 ✓ Verified #30 in country (Newsweek/US-News) · 2.9★ Google · objective outcomes ≫ independent ranking ≫ patient reviews · 55th 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 88 ✓ Verified 1,005 beds · vs 84 sourced hospitals in the registry · 76th 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 2026-07-14Address, neighbourhood, and how long transit and airports take.
Jalan Hospital, 93586 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Getting here
- Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuching 6.3 km · ~10 min (≈, OSM)
Patient reviews
✓ Google · verifiedGoogle's published rating, put in context against how hospitals actually score.
616 Google reviews
Above the typical hospital
Top 45%
better than ~55% 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 2.9★ sits near the top of the range.
Rating is Google's, shown as reported (616 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 Umum Sarawak 2.9★ across 616 Google reviews — above the typical hospital, better than roughly 55% of hospitals on our worldwide rating benchmark.
Doctors, nurses & expertise
SourcedThe hospital's published headcount and capacity.
- Beds
- 1,005
- sourced
From the hospital's published figures. Nurse counts and training ratios will appear once sourced.
Independent signals
SourcedGovernment quality-inspection grades, independent accreditation/certification, and insurer networks — matched from public registries, not submitted by the hospital.
Ownership & governance
SourcedWho owns it and how long it's operated — from public records.
Corporate
- Ownership
- Public · Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH)✓
- Established
- 1870 · 156 yrs✓
From public corporate records. Complaint rates and ethics signals will appear once independently sourced.
Compare hospitals in Malaysia
Our indexSide 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 Umum Sarawak carries a BB grade (#30 in Malaysia — World's Best Hospitals 2026), ranks #4 of 4 on our merit score (63).
| Metric | This hospital Hospital Umum Sarawak Kuching | 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 | BB · 63 | AAA · 91 ★ | AA · 86 | AA · 84 |
| Newsweek rankWorld's Best Hospitals | #30 in country | #1 in country ★ | #2 in country | #3 in country |
| Patient ratingGoogle, sourced | 2.9★ | 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 Umum Sarawak
Straight answers from the data on this page — cost, accreditation, rating, and location.
How is Hospital Umum Sarawak rated?
Hospital Umum Sarawak has a 2.9-star Google rating from 616 reviews, and scores 63/100 (grade BBB) on our independent Trust Index, alongside its rank of #30 in Malaysia — World's Best Hospitals 2026. The Trust Index is one public formula applied to every hospital — the
What is Hospital Umum Sarawak known for?
Hospital Umum Sarawak (Sarawak General Hospital) is the largest hospital in Sarawak and, alongside Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu, one of East Malaysia's two main tertiary referral centres. A public Ministry of Health facility in Kuching tracing its origins to 1870, it has grown to 1,005 beds with subspecialty medicine units (nephrology, cardiology, neurology, rheumatology, respiratory, gastroenterology, haematology, infectious diseases) and a Clinical Research Centre running Phase I trials.
Where is Hospital Umum Sarawak?
Hospital Umum Sarawak is located at Jalan Hospital, 93586 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, Kuching, Malaysia.
Traveling to Kuching, 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 onlyHow much of this profile is verified data — every section above carries a chip telling you where its numbers come from.
All 16 data fields — what's verified, imported or modeled Show more Hide
- 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 →