“Expansion of Public Health Care Infrastructure”… Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service and Taebaek City Sign MOU to Operate Taebaek Nursing Hospital

Strengthening Essential Medical Services at Taebaek City's First Public Long-Term Care Hospital

The Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service (Director Park Jong-gil) signed a business agreement with Taebaek City (Mayor Lee Sang-ho) to ensure the successful operation and revitalization of Taebaek Nursing Hospital, scheduled to open in January next year.

Through this agreement, the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service will support the realization of a healthy city without medically underserved areas by providing high-quality medical services to Taebaek citizens. Taebaek City pledged administrative and financial support for the successful operation of Taebaek Nursing Hospital.

On the 18th, at the headquarters of the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service, Park Jong-gil, Director of the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service (6th from the left), and Lee Sang-ho, Mayor of Taebaek (7th from the left), signed a business agreement.

So far, the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service and Taebaek City have continuously cooperated from the feasibility study stage to licensing and budget securing from various perspectives, and this agreement is expected to further strengthen the cooperative relationship between the two parties.

Taebaek Nursing Hospital, the first nursing hospital in Taebaek City, will open within Taebaek Hospital, a general hospital, utilizing its facilities and personnel, with a capacity of 55 beds. It is regarded as an innovative hospital model for the aging era, where patients can receive comprehensive hospital-level treatment promptly when ill while receiving care services.

With the opening of Taebaek Nursing Hospital, essential medical services will be further strengthened by providing nursing services for industrial accident patients and local residents with elderly and chronic diseases in the Taebaek area, which is expected to contribute to the health promotion of residents.

Park Jong-gil, Director of the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service, who led the agreement, said, “Through the successful operation of Taebaek Nursing Hospital, we will strengthen essential medical guarantees such as long-term nursing services, creating a turning point for a remarkable improvement in medical services and becoming a corporation more loved by local residents.”

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