Gwangju City Announces Call for Bids for Trustees of Municipal Psychiatric Hospital and No.1 Nursing Hospital Until the 28th

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 7th that it will invite bids for a trustee to operate Gwangju Municipal Psychiatric Hospital and Gwangju Municipal No.1 Nursing Hospital until the 28th.

Gwangju Municipal Psychiatric Hospital and Gwangju Municipal No.1 Nursing Hospital, located in Samgeo-dong, Gwangsan-gu, currently have 248 beds and 257 beds respectively as of the announcement date, and the consignment period is five years from February 2023 to January 2028.

Eligibility requirements include corporations with more than three years of experience operating hospital-level medical institutions regardless of region as of the announcement date; individuals who are specialists in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, or Korean neuropsychiatry with more than three years of experience operating hospital-level medical institutions; quasi-governmental institutions operating hospital-level medical institutions; and veterans hospitals.

The consignment condition is that the same trustee operates both hospitals, and the operating funds due to consignment must be self-funded by the trustee through medical income, etc., to ensure responsible operation.

However, to strengthen the public nature and improve management of municipal hospitals, the city plans to support operating deficits incurred regardless of the trustee’s management responsibility within the budget after evaluation, based on the project costs for public health care projects proposed by the city.

Also, although Gwangju has restricted the establishment of new medical corporations and branch offices since 2014, it plans to permit the establishment of medical corporations according to related ordinances only if selected as the trustee of the municipal hospitals in a personal capacity this time.

Gwangju will hold a briefing session for the bidding project in the city hall’s medium conference room on the 14th, and only those who attend the briefing session will be eligible to apply.

Applications will be accepted in person at the Health Policy Division of City Hall on the 25th and 28th. Detailed information can be found on the city’s website under notices and announcements.

Ryu Misu, Director of the Welfare and Health Bureau of the city, said, “We expect that a trustee with expertise and rich experience in hospital operation will be selected to serve as a key regional medical institution managing dementia and other geriatric diseases and mental illnesses.”

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