Best General Surgery Hospitals in South Korea

• Chungnam National University Hospital (CNUH) was established in 1972 and has come a long way in fulfilling the needs of the current healthcare scenario through its latest healthcare technologies, theories, and principles along with advanced business management. It aims to become a “competitive hospital,” “patient-oriented hospital,” and “specialised hospital.”
• Being a multispeciality Hospital, it has 33 Medical departments and 17 Specialised Centres. It is also the largest hospital in central Korea.
• It is the first Centre for rheumatoid and degenerative arthritis to be designated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. It has comprehensive facilities for rehabilitation therapy including Korea’s one and only underwater exercise facilities as well as anti-gravity treadmills. There are outdoor trails and an outdoor sports field for rehabilitation and therapy for arthritis patients.
• CNUH was the first hospital in the Daejeon and Chungcheong-do area to successfully perform kidney transplantation from a living donor to a patient with kidney failure in 1986. Since then, it has been performing many kidney and liver transplants each year. 
• Its Dialysis Centre was designated as an “Excellent Dialysis Unit” by the Korean Society of Nephrology having specialised and systematic patient care and management including dialysis, nursing, education for patients as well as nutrition, vascular, drug administration management.
• CNUH is also equipped with state-of-the-art medical facilities like PET-CT, Tomotherapy, Gamma Knife etc to fulfill its mission of quality healthcare.

• 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. 

• Honoured as the most respected hospital in Korea for 14 consecutive years by Korean Management Association Consulting (KMAC) (2007 to 2019)
• Honored as the best workplaces in Korea - KMAC, 2012
• Honored as the best global customer satisfaction survey for four consecutive years by the Japanese Management Association Consulting (JMAC) (2008 to 2011)
• Won the prize for global standard management in the social responsibility category - KMAR, 2010
• Honored as the best in national customer satisfaction index (NCSI) by KPC, 2010
• Selected as a highly research-driven hospital that customizes in anticancer therapy, medical robot system and medical equipment, U-healthcare, chronic diseases, development of molecular imaging technology, development of infectious disease treatment, adult stem cell-based cell therapy by Ministry of Health and Welfare, 2013.
• Honored as the best hospital in successful organ transplantations on liver, kidney, pancreas, and heart by Korea Network for Organ Sharing (KONOS), 2012.
• Selected as the best in the operative mortality rate of gastric cancer, colon cancer, liver cancer by Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service, 2012.
• Honored as the best in performing surgeries on 30 major diseases by National Health Insurance Corporation, 2006.     

• Samsung Medical Center is one of the most pathologically advanced and patien- oriented hospitals.
• It was established in the year 1994.
• It is based on the philosophy of contributing to the health of the nation, to provide the best medical services and medical research facilities.
• The hospital has won first place 14 times for the National Customer Satisfaction Index - NCSI.
• 16 times the leader in the value of the Korean Customer Satisfaction Index – KCSI.
• It has been honored 12 times as the main medical brand of Korea.
• It has been honored 12 times consecutively in the first place in the Quality of Service index – KS-SQI.
• It has one of the best innovative medical practices in the world.
• It has approximately 1400 doctors, 2600 nurses, 200 researchers, 3700 pharmacists and medical engineers (as per 2016 data)

• Severance hospital is a division within of Yonsei University Health System.

• There are approximately 7,000 employees throughout the Health System (including ~ 2000 physicians and ~5000 support personnel).

• The hospitals have more than 3700 beds and treat ~ 3 million outpatients and 1 million inpatients annually.

• The total lot size is 77 acres with a building size of 640,538ft².

• The institute enables state-of-the-art medical treatments throughout majority of clinical specialties with its 5 Specialized Hospitals housing 67 clinical departments, 27 specialty centers, 16 cancer clinics, and a Dental Hospital.

• Severance Hospital is South Korea's first hospital to introduce robotic surgical system.  

• The hospital has an excellent record of exceeding 16,000 cases of robotic surgery

• The center offers very specialized robotic surgical training for surgeons around the world including the USA. Till date, more than 1,000 surgeons from 28 different countries have got hands-on surgical training on the same.

• Severance Hospital received the prestigious accreditation by the Joint Commission International in 2007 and thereby became the first Korean medical institution to have done so.

• The hospital offers language support in English, Chinese, and Japanese languages.

   

   
   

   

   

• 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 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).