National Cancer Center Implements 100% Integrated Nursing and Caregiving Service in General Wards

Full Transition of 539 Beds
Expected to Improve Satisfaction for Patients and Families

The National Cancer Center announced that, starting from May 15, it will expand the "Integrated Nursing and Caregiving Service" to 100% of its general wards in order to strengthen a patient-centered medical environment and substantially alleviate the burden of caregiving.

Medical staff are caring for a patient in the Integrated Nursing Care Service ward at the National Cancer Center. National Cancer Center

The Integrated Nursing and Caregiving Service is a system in which professional nursing staff provide systematic, round-the-clock care for patients without the need for family members or private caregivers. For patients with severe cancer, it allows for immediate observation and response to complex treatment reactions, enabling the delivery of more specialized and safe intensive cancer care. This is expected not only to improve satisfaction for patients and their families, but also to significantly reduce the economic and psychological burden caused by high caregiving costs.

With this expansion, the service will now cover the Thyroid Cancer Center and Sarcoma Cancer Center wards, and all 539 general ward beds—except those in special wards and hospice/palliative care wards—will be operated by professional nursing staff. Consequently, as a public medical institution, the National Cancer Center is actively participating in national health policy while also establishing a close-contact care system in which professional medical staff remain by the patient's side 24 hours a day.

The National Cancer Center has steadily expanded the scope of this service since launching the integrated nursing and caregiving ward in 2016. For this full-scale implementation, the center completed investments in increasing nursing staff and improving ward environments. Going forward, it plans to further enhance service quality through continuous monitoring and patient satisfaction surveys.

Yang Han-Kwang, President of the National Cancer Center, stated, "We made the decision for this full-scale expansion with a sense of responsibility as a public medical institution, in order to help alleviate the greatest hardship for patients and families fighting cancer—the burden of caregiving." He added, "We will continue to provide high-quality nursing services and create an optimal environment where patients can focus solely on their treatment and recovery."

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