Public Tender for Consignee to Operate Gwangju City Second Nursing Hospital

October 19-20 Two-Day In-Person Registration at City Health Policy Division

Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Kang Ki-jung) announced on the 26th that it will open a public contest to select a new trustee to operate the Gwangju Municipal Second Nursing Hospital by October 20.

The Gwangju Municipal Second Nursing Hospital, located in Deoknam-dong, Nam-gu, currently has 196 beds as of the announcement date, and the consignment period is five years from January 2024 to December 2028.

Gwangju Metropolitan City Hall.

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

The trustee must implement public health medical projects such as rehabilitation therapy specialization projects, free caregiving services for low-income groups, operation of social work offices to promote public health medical projects, and management of inpatient care for infectious disease patients.

To strengthen the public nature and improve the management of municipal hospitals, Gwangju City plans to support project expenses and public interest costs according to the public health medical projects proposed by the city within the budget.

Although Gwangju City 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 hospital in a personal capacity this time.

Applications can be submitted in person to the Health Policy Division over two days, October 19-20. Detailed information can be found on the Gwangju City website under Notices and Announcements.

Jung Young-hwa, Director of the Welfare and Health Bureau, said, “We hope that medical institutions with expertise and rich experience will participate to provide medical treatment and nursing care services for patients with dementia and geriatric diseases.”

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