Samsung Changwon Hospital Designated Consecutively as a Tertiary General Hospital for the 5th Term

Effective Treatment for Critical Patients: Cancer Center Opens

Excelling in Liver Transplant, Stomach Cancer, and Robotic Surgery Fields

Sungkyunkwan University Samsung Changwon Hospital has been consecutively re-designated as a ‘5th-term Tertiary General Hospital’ by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

With this, Samsung Changwon Hospital will serve as the only tertiary general hospital in Changwon Special City, Gyeongnam, fulfilling the role of a tertiary general hospital for six years from 2021 to 2026.

Tertiary general hospitals are the top-level medical institutions in Korea that specialize in performing highly complex medical procedures for severe diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and rare diseases. The Ministry of Health and Welfare comprehensively evaluates manpower, facilities, equipment, treatment, and education in 11 medical service areas and re-designates hospitals every three years.

Sungkyunkwan University Samsung Changwon Hospital.

Samsung Changwon Hospital has systematically strengthened its system for treating severe patients. To provide integrated cancer treatment services, it established a Cancer Center where professors from multiple departments collaboratively develop treatment plans for individual cancer patients through multidisciplinary care.

It is evaluated that the hospital has built a system that cares for all stages of treatment by integrating major cancer-related departments, expanding the endoscopy unit, and establishing a specialized counseling room for cancer patients. Based on the strengthened system, treatment outcomes have also rapidly improved.

The Organ Transplant Center, opened by recruiting Professor Jae-won Cho from Samsung Seoul Hospital, successfully performed 10 high-difficulty liver transplants this year alone. The Gastric Cancer Center, with Professor Sung Kim from Samsung Seoul Hospital, has surpassed 1,000 gastric tumor surgeries. The Robotic Surgery Center, opened in 2016, introduced the da Vinci Xi and SP (Single Port) robotic surgical systems, surpassing 2,000 integrated surgeries.

Director Kwang-chul Ko said, “As a tertiary general hospital responsible for the region’s highest-level medical delivery system, our goal is to work together with the local medical community to create a healthy society,” adding, “We will continue to do our best so that severe patients can conveniently recover their health in the region.”

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