Helping Health Recovery and Return to Work... Daedong Hospital Selected as an Excellent Industrial Accident Insurance Medical Institution in 2021

Busan Daedong Hospital.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Intern Reporter Lee Seryeong] Busan Daedong Hospital announced on the 27th that it was selected as an excellent institution in the 2021 Industrial Accident Insurance Medical Institution Evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Employment and Labor's Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service.

The Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service evaluates industrial accident insurance medical institutions annually on matters related to the quality of care, such as personnel, facilities, and medical services, aiming to improve the quality of medical services for work-related injuries.

The evaluation targets include the institution's personnel, facilities, scale, medical treatment performance for workers injured in work-related accidents, medical expense claims, or previous evaluation results related to care benefits.

About 40 items are evaluated, including personnel, facilities and equipment, content and level of medical services, satisfaction of treated workers, medical treatment performance for workers injured in work-related accidents, and other matters related to the quality of care for workers injured in work-related accidents, and excellent institutions are selected and announced.

When selected as an excellent medical institution, benefits such as exemption from regular on-site medical expense investigations and an additional 5% payment on the medical institution's classification rate for one year are provided.

Daedong Hospital, which will celebrate its 77th anniversary next year, operates a regional emergency medical center and has established a 24-hour specialist medical treatment system for industrial accident emergency patients, including emergency surgery systems in orthopedics, neurosurgery, and surgery.

The administration department has dedicated staff for industrial accident insurance, providing quick social reintegration and convenience for industrial accident patients.

Choi Minhwan, head of the administration department, said, “We provide customized industrial accident medical services from outpatient care to hospitalization, discharge, and rehabilitation to help local industrial accident patients recover their health and quickly return to society and work,” adding, “We will continue to strive to improve medical services steadily.”

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