Best Gastroenterology Hospitals in South Korea

• Soon Chun Hyang University Hospital – Cheonan is a leading super-specaility, tertiary-care hospital of the central region of Korea and was founded in 1982. In its 38 years of existence, the hospital has some firsts to its credit, viz; it became the first among Korea's university hospitals to start free onsite cancer education in 2001. In 2011, the hospital opened the first day clinic of the region, followed by the first hospital in the country to launch 8-channel multi-detect spiral CT in 2003. 
• In its first two decades of operations, the hospital was deisgnated as an internship institute for medical technicians, as a training facility for millitary and also for certified personnel for mental healthcare. 
• Some of its important milestones include, being designated as the Occupational Environment Measurement Institute, a dedicated ward for cancer patients with aseptic ward, introducing the 4^th generation extracorporeal shock wave lithotriptor, specialised hospital for diabetes among others. 
• It has also added many specialities over the years such as gastroenterology, PET-CT, developing surgical treatment for funnel chest with a transilluminated introducer, speical emergency diseases, testing service on development of premature infants and stroke among a few others.  
• It has a registered patent on treatment for Pectus Carinatum (pigeon breast).
• Soon Chun Hyang University Hospital – Cheonan has 24 departments, 736 beds and +1,000 medical staff including 130 faculty with national and international training. 
• It has latest digital equipments such as MRIs, CTs, OCS and PACS, SPECT and a radiation device for cancer treatment.
• The hospital has an adjacent ananex building and a wing, a college of medicine, two education wings, a dedicated parking tower and a secretary office. Thers is an outpatient clinic and a cancer center. 
• The hospital offers outstanding hospital stay for its patients. 
• The hospital is a leading medical-training institute that also has a Clinical Medical Research Center.   

• Keimyung University – Dongsan Medical Center (KUDMC) took its current name after the Dongsan Medical Center was merged with the Keimyung University in 1980. In 1982, officially it came to be known as  Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center. It is a multi-specialty hospital offering treatments for major medical conditions. 
• Keimyung University – Dongsan Medical Center has 26 clinical departments, 915 beds for inpatients, 50 beds in emergency ward and 40 incubators in the neonatal ward.
• It is equipped with the state-of-the-art medical equipment and has expert and talented medical professionals on board. 
• The hospital premises also house a Daegu Dongsan Medical Center, nursing college and Kyungju Dongsan Hospital and a medical college. 
• In 2011, the hospital was recognised as a Medical Center for Excellence in foreign patient attraction. 
• The hospital provides comfortable stay for patients. 
• The KUDMC's Biobank sources human bioresources during clinical practice for distributing to researchers to provide personalised medicine in future. 

• The Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong is a huge multi-speciality hospital comprising of a Western medical school hospital, an Oriental medical school hospital and a dental school hospital. 
• The hospital is equipped with a 3.0T MRI, EMR system and 64MD CT, RapidArc and robot navigaton. The hospital's specialised centers treat stroke and brain diseases, rheumatism and spine. 
• The medical complex is spacious and comprises a 14-storey building with four basement floors and an additional wing has three flours and five basement flours, together having a capacity of 800 beds.
•  The Kyung Hee University – Hospital at Gangdong has a dedicated team  along with interpreters to tap foreign patients and it has formed a global network for medical co-operation to contribute to its domestic and international competitiveness. 
• The hospital is surrounded by lush greenery and beauty and is a preferred choice of patients due to the cozy and comfortable environment which resembles receiving treatment at home.
• The hospital is very modern and its rooms are simple and comfortably spacious.
• It is on course to become a paperless hospital with digitalised documents and charts. 

• Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) is a member of the network of hospitals in Seoul National University, within the Southern suburb of Seoul.
• It was established in 2003 with a CPOE (computerized physician order entry) system allowing fully digitized and paperless treatment of its patients in virtually every area of medicine.
• Korea Brand Power Index has consistently awarded SNUBH 1^st rank for the last 13 years in terms of quality of general hospitals.
• Furthermore, in 2012, SNUBH was entitled “1st Class in all categories” of quality measurements based on customer satisfaction, patient safety, and overall outcomes the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (a subsidiary of the National Insurance company of Korea).
• SNUBH is a research powerhouse with an annual research budget of more than 25 million USD.
• SNUBH accommodated around 3000 medical interns, residents, and clinical fellows.

• Established in 1983, the Yeungnam University Medical Centre (YUMC) is located in the southeastern part of South Korea aiming to provide the best medical services with about 2500 employees.
• With 26 major Clinical departments and 13 Specialised Centres, it is a multispeciality Hospital particularly noted for the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRAS) report on the successful numbers of major cancer surgeries in Korea based on operations from 2006 to February 2007. Having a high chance of survival for the many numbers of cancer surgeries, it has become one of the top-notched Hospitals in Korea. In fact, it was ranked 1st in the  Yeungnam Region of Korea as "The World Best Hospital", selected by Newsweek, USA in April 2020.
• The Hospital invests in state of the art medical technologies namely like an advanced Dual 192 channel SOMATOM Force, 3D Mammography Unit ‘Selenia Dimensions 3D’, MRI 'Magnetom Vida', PET-MR (the first in Asia), etc to get the most accurate diagnosis and treatment along with the best medical care.
• YUMC was designated the best hospital in ‘Acute Stroke Appropriateness test’ in Daegu 6 times in a row.
• In 2017, it had the first successful "Arm Transplant Surgery" in Korea. In the same year, the Ministry of Health and Welfare nominated YUMC as the "3rd Superior General Hospital." 
• In 2019, YUMC got the 1st-grade adequacy test in breast cancer 6 times in a row and stomach cancer 4 times in a row and in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 3 times in a row. It also got 1st grades in adequacy test in infantile acute mesenteritis anti-biotic and in adequacy test in ‘Coronary Artery Bypass Graft’ along with adequacy test in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The General Hospital Nursing system also received the 1st grade for the first time among superior general hospitals in Daegu.
• It was designated a "National Safety Hospital" in 2020.
• The Hospital also has a Health Promotion Centre to perform early diagnosis and prevention through precise examination and diagnosis.
• The International Health Service Centre has been in operation since September 2006 to serve foreign patients with high-quality services and patient-oriented care. It provides a "One-Stop Service System." It has Korean and English speaking coordinators for assistance. 

• The Pusan National University Hospital (PNUH) was set up in 1956 under the South Korea's education policy to offer public health and to contribute to medical knowledge by carrying out research in dentistry, pharmacology, nursing science and medicine.  
• PNUH is a leading super-speciality hospital with a capacity of +2,000 beds and +3,000 employees. 
• It runs 20 speciality centres for heart disease and heart attack. It offers treatment of PET/CT and other diagnostic imaging services with the most-advanced medical equipment. It has 23 medical departments, eight dental departments and a subsidiary research institute.  It also houses the Cancer center and the Trauma center.
• In 2013, it ranked first among the grade given for hospitals in Public Health and Medical Business Assessment. Some of its other accomplishments include, starting the Pusan Cancer Center in 2009, recognition by the  Ministry of Health and Welfare in 2011, second rank for 'brand power' among general hospitals in 2012. 
• The hospital houses a departmental store, a chemist shop and a cafeteria. 
• Ever since its inception as a corporate in 1994, the medical staff at the hospital offers world-class client-centered services. 
• The International Health Center of PNUH was set up to offer medical services to local foreign residents and services. 
• The PNUH's Biobank is a depository of bioresources and is on course to become a dedicated bank for personalised diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular and colon cancer. 

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• Seoul National University (SNU) Hospital is a tertiary hospital that was set up in 1885.
• SNU has been at the helm of medical research and development within the Republic of Korea as well as globally for the past 130 years.
• SNUH comprises a network of hospitals: SNU Bundang Hospital, SNUH Healthcare System Gangnam Center, SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center, and Sheikh Khalifa Specialty Hospital (SKSH), United Arab Emirates (UAE)   
• It is one of the biggest hospitals in South Korea
• Modern medicine was first introduced by SNUH into Korea
• The hospital has the best medical staff, best medical devices, and a tremendous medical information system
• Ranked No.1 in National Brand Competitiveness Index (NBCI).
• To facilitate better service to international patients the hospital offers language and interpretation services in Mandarin, Russian, English, Mongolian, and Arabic.
• SNUH was the first hospital outside US to receive 7th Class certification from HIMSS Analytics, i.e. the highest grade possible for medical informatization.

• Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital (SSMH) was opened in 2009 as a part of Catholic Medical Center (CMC) with core values of unchanging spirit of respect for life.

• SSMH is the flagship hospital of CMC employing world-class medical staff and state-of-the-art medical equipment.

• Just one year after its opening SSMH received the prestigious JCI accreditation in 2010, and was fully re-accredited in 2013.

• SSMH has the distinction of being the largest single-building hospital in Korea owing to its 22 floors above and 6 floors under ground consisting of 1,356 beds.

• The hospital employs more than 800 medical doctors and 1,800 nurses in its 25 departments.

• SSMH provides reliable top-quality medical services to more than 6,700 outpatients and about 1,200 in-patients in addition to performing about 130 surgeries per day on an average.

• SSMH ranks number 5 for blood marrow transplantation (BMT) globally.

• In-line with its commitment for international patients SSMH provides interpretation service in five languages namely English, French, Japanese, Russian and Mandarin. 

• Ranked Number 1 in Korean Standard Service - Quality Index (KS-SQI) (category: General Hospital Evaluation) for 3 consecutive years since 2018 by Korean Standards Association.

• Member of International Hospital Federation (IHF).

• KyungHee University Medical Center (KHUMC) was set up in 1971 with the spirit of “Rehabilitation of Mankind”.

• KUHMC has all medical facilities concentrated in one location, such that its structure comprises of:

1. Kyung Hee University Hospital

2. Kyung Hee University Dental Hospital

3. Kyung Hee University Korean Medicine Hospital

4. Kyung Hee University East-West medical Center

5. Medical Science Research Institute

• KUHMC is the first such center that offers treatment by combining dental, eastern, western, and eastern-western medicine.

• The center houses ultramodern equipment for efficient treatments with the highest quality medical staff and world-class operation rooms.

• Some of the advanced treatment and diagnostic equipment include EMR, 3.0-Tesla MRI, 64-slice CT, robotic surgery (Da Vinci Robot system), and RapidArc (cancer treatment)

• Moreover, the entire center follows practices toward dispensing completely paperless medical facilities.

• For facilitating treatment of international patients the center provides services in English, Russian, Mandarin, and Japanese.

• Ranked No. 1 in 2005 for customer satisfaction by the medicine industry

• The highest rating of “Quality of Medicine and Patient Safety" by the Ministry of Health and Welfare

• The hospital handles over 1,200 surgical cases per year.

• In 2008 KHUMC was recognized for the largest number of successfully performed complex surgical operations by the medical institution.

• KHUMC successfully conducted world’s first foot, hand finger transplantation surgery.