Yongsan-gu Sends 'Visiting Doctors' to Long-term Care Recipients

Two Clinics, Daehanminguk Clinic and Himchan Sesang Kyunghee Korean Medicine Clinic,
to Participate in the Long-term Care Home Medical Center Pilot Project

A ‘home visit’ system has been established to ensure that local elderly residents receive adequate medical services at home instead of hospitals or facilities. Yongsan-gu, Seoul (District Mayor Park Hee-young) announced on the 23rd that it will conduct the ‘2025 Long-term Care Home Medical Center Pilot Project’ until the end of this year.

Yongsan District Office building. Provided by Yongsan District Office.

The home medical care will be carried out by Daehanminguk Clinic (Chief Director Bae Jae-won, Cheongpa-ro 47-gil 7) and Himchan Sesang Kyunghee Korean Medicine Clinic (Chief Director Park Seok-gyu, Hangang-daero 109), which have signed business agreements with the district.

The target recipients of home medical care are those among long-term care home benefit users who have mobility difficulties and are deemed by a doctor to require home medical care. Priority is given to those classified as levels 1 to 2 among long-term care grades 1 to 5.

Yongsan-gu explained, “Long-term care recipients with mobility difficulties sometimes have no choice but to select nursing hospitals or facilities due to difficulty visiting hospitals,” and added, “Providing home medical services is necessary to support elderly residents to live in the community as long as possible.”

At Daehanminguk Clinic and Himchan Sesang Kyunghee Korean Medicine Clinic, teams of three or more, including doctors, nurses, and social workers, will visit the homes of the recipients once or twice a month to provide medical services and connect them with necessary community care services such as visiting nursing.

The costs will apply health insurance fees for home visits and long-term care insurance fees. Service applications can be made at one of Daehanminguk Clinic, Himchan Sesang Kyunghee Korean Medicine Clinic, or the National Health Insurance Corporation.

District Mayor Park Hee-young said, “I am grateful to Daehanminguk Clinic and Himchan Sesang Kyunghee Korean Medicine Clinic for participating in the pilot project for the elderly in this super-aged era,” and added, “The district will also carefully oversee so that the elderly can spend a healthy old age in Yongsan for a long time.”

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