Emergency 24/70117 84 84 84229/10 St. Joseph Street, Negombo
St. Joseph Hospital, to live is a privilege

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Same-day slots at the OPD, and online booking around the clock.

Free OPD consultation. Corporate insurance accepted at the OPD.
Twin operating theatre lights above a surgical table
HomeFacilities

Built like a
US facility.

Six purpose built floors in Negombo: operating theatres with the recovery bay next door, monitored critical care beside them, a laboratory that never closes, and rooms where your family can actually stay the night.

Floors
Six, purpose built
Cleaning cycle
Every two hours
Laboratory
Open 24 hours
Rooms from
10,000 LKR
Covered ambulance bay✦Laboratory open 24 hours✦Sterile instrument tracking✦Attendant space in every room✦Free parking and wifi✦Cleaned every two hours✦
01 / The building

Six floors, one
building

Departments that work together sit together, so a scan ordered in a clinic does not become a journey across town.

01

Emergency & arrival

Covered ambulance entrance, resuscitation bay, admissions desk, 24 hour pharmacy and parking beside the main door.

02

Clinics & outpatients

Consulting suites for every specialty, an outpatient department open 24 hours, and physiotherapy.

03

Diagnostics

A 24 hour laboratory, digital X-ray, ultrasound, ECG and echocardiography, and the endoscopy unit.

04

Theatres & recovery

Operating theatres with a recovery bay alongside, a dedicated obstetric theatre kept separate from general lists, and sterile services.

05

Critical care

Intensive care beds placed beside the theatres and the emergency department, with neonatal support for newborns who need it.

06

Wards & rooms

Standard, deluxe and super deluxe rooms, shared wards with bed separators, nursing stations and family waiting space.

St. Joseph Hospital exterior and ambulance entrance
01

Ambulance bay

A covered entrance with the resuscitation bay directly behind it, staffed at every hour of the day.

Accident & Emergency
Hospital reception desk
02

Reception & admissions

One desk for registration and admission, with seating that is a waiting area rather than a corridor.

How admission works
Clinical team reviewing a patient's results
03

Diagnostic corridor

The laboratory, digital X-ray and ultrasound sit metres from the consulting suites and the emergency bay.

Diagnostics & radiology
An operating theatre prepared for surgery
04

Theatres & recovery

Operating suites with the recovery bay next door and one nurse assigned to each patient coming out of theatre.

Inside the theatres
02 / Operating theatres

Tracked steel,
single use,
one nurse each

Our theatres run to US surgical protocol, with tracking on every instrument set. Instruments and consumables are single use for each patient, without exception.

A recovery nurse is assigned to watch over you from the moment you leave theatre until you are ready for a ward bed or for home. Surgical and anaesthetic teams stay on call, so emergency surgery happens here rather than after a transfer.

Recovery nursing
1:0Recovery nursing
Reused consumables
0Reused consumables
On call theatre cover
0hOn call theatre cover
Protocol
US standard
Instrument sets
Tracked per set
Consumables
Single use, per patient
Anaesthesia
Consultant led
Recovery bay
Beside the theatres
Recovery nursing
One to one
Obstetric theatre
Kept separate
Emergency cover
On call, 24 hours
03 / Critical care

Beds that watch
you all night

Monitored beds for patients who need ventilation, close observation after surgery, or stabilising before anything else can happen.

ICU

Intensive care

Monitored beds for patients who need ventilation or close observation, placed beside the theatres and the emergency department.

Consultant led
PACU

Post-operative recovery

A recovery bay adjoining the operating theatres, where one nurse is assigned to each patient until they are ready to move.

One to one nursing
NEO

Newborn support

Neonatal support present at delivery whenever the baby's condition calls for it, alongside the obstetric theatre.

Paediatric team

No transfer out

Because the unit sits beside the operating theatres and the emergency department, a patient who deteriorates on the ward or after surgery is moved straight in rather than transferred to another hospital.

Visiting

Visiting the unit is kept to fixed hours so patients can rest and the team can work without interruption. The ICU desk will tell you the current times.

Family updates

A family member is called with an update once a day, and the unit coordinator handles visiting arrangements and the move back to a ward bed.

04 / Rooms & wards

Four ways to
spend the night

Every category is cleaned on the same two hour cycle. What changes is space, privacy and how much room your family gets.

Super Deluxe Rooms

1 bed

Bystander bed, sofa and chair, pantry with tea station, coffee table, kettle, morning papers, separate steward service

On request

Deluxe Rooms

1 bed

Bystander bed and sofa, pantry area with tea station, coffee table, hot water kettle

On request

Standard Rooms

1 bed

Bystander bed and chair, air conditioning, television, necessary medical support

From 10,000 LKR

Wards

2 or 3 beds

Individual bystander beds and chairs, bed separators for privacy, air conditioning, day visiting

On request

In every category

  • Hot & cool water
  • Television
  • Free wifi
  • Air conditioning
  • Bystander bed & chair
  • Cleaned every two hours
  • Medical support on call

Small things that help

  • A separate steward service in super deluxe rooms
  • A pantry area with a tea station in deluxe and super deluxe rooms
  • Morning papers in super deluxe rooms
  • A complimentary fruit or chocolate basket on discharge from the wards
See the rooms

Room rates cover accommodation and nursing care. Doctor visits, medicine, tests and procedures are billed separately and appear on your interim bill.

05 / Diagnostics

The machines,
and who
reads them

Equipment is worth nothing without the discipline around it. Every laboratory report is checked by two doctors before it is released, and X-rays are read and reported by a radiologist within the hour.

Diagnostic services

Digital X-ray

Read and reported by a radiologist

Within an hour

Ultrasound

Abdominal, antenatal and soft tissue scanning

At the visit

Haematology & biochemistry

Full blood count, metabolic and biochemistry panels

Same day

Microbiology & cultures

Infection screening and culture testing

As cultures complete

Histopathology

Tissue and biopsy analysis

Via our service

ECG & echocardiography

Resting ECG and cardiac risk assessment

Same day

Endoscopy

Gastroscopy and colonoscopy, with biopsy at the same sitting

Same day

CT & MRI

Not performed on site; sent to a partner imaging centre

By referral
06 / Ambulance & transfers

Treatment
starts in the
vehicle

Our own ambulances are on call around the clock and dispatched from the same covered bay that patients arrive through, so care begins before you reach the door.

The laboratory and digital X-ray sit metres from that bay, so bloods and films come back while you are still being assessed. We are ten minutes from Bandaranaike International, and our own ambulance is available for transfer.

Call an ambulance: 0117 84 84 84
Availability
24 hours
Fleet
Our own
Dispatched from
Our own bay
Arrival bay
Covered
Lab & X-ray
Metres away
Airport
Ten minutes
07 / Around the clock

Open when you
need it open

A hospital is judged at three in the morning. These eight are staffed or on call whenever you arrive.

01

Accident & emergency

A resuscitation bay staffed around the clock, where triage starts before any paperwork does.

02

Laboratory

Open at every hour, with every report checked by two doctors before it is released.

03

Digital X-ray

Available overnight as well as in clinic hours, read and reported within the hour.

04

Outpatient department

Consulting suites open 24 hours, staffed alongside the emergency entrance whenever you arrive.

05

Pharmacy

A 24 hour dispensary on site, so a prescription written at night can be filled the same night.

06

Ambulance dispatch

Our own fleet on call and dispatched from the same covered bay that patients arrive through.

07

Sterile services

Tracking on every instrument set, with consumables single use for each patient without exception.

08

On call surgical cover

Surgical and anaesthetic teams on call, so emergency surgery happens here rather than after a transfer.

08 / Hygiene & safety

Cleaned every
two hours,
by the clock

Infection control is a schedule, not a slogan. Every surface in the building is cleaned on a two hour cycle to US specification.

Cleaning cycle
Every two hours
Standard
US specification
Consumables
Single use, never reused
Instrument sets
Tracked per set
Obstetric theatre
Separate from general lists
Laboratory reports
Checked by two doctors
A sterile instrument set laid out on a drape before surgery

Consumables are single use, and never reused

09 / For visitors

Getting here,
and waiting well

Ten minutes from Bandaranaike International Airport, on St. Joseph Street in central Negombo.

Visiting

General wards
Day visiting
Critical care
Fixed hours
Family update
Once a day from the unit
Attendant
May stay overnight

The ward or unit desk will confirm the current times before you travel.

Getting here

  • 229/10 St. Joseph Street, Negombo
  • Ten minutes from Bandaranaike International Airport
  • Free parking beside the main entrance
  • Our own ambulance available for transfer

While you wait

  • Free parking
  • Free wifi
  • Cafeteria
  • Patient lounge
  • Wheelchair access
  • 24 hour pharmacy
  • Card payments
  • Quiet visiting hours
10 / Come and look

See the rooms
before you
need them.

Ask at reception and we will show you a room and the ward. No appointment, and no sales talk.

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