Best Transplant Surgery Hospitals in South Korea

• The Chonnam National University Hospital (CNUH) started in 1910 as Jahye Clinic with just 10 employees. After 110 years, it has grown into the largest multi-hospital system having 3000 employees. It has also gained respect as Koreas's top tier general hospital and a global hospital.
• Being a multispeciality hospital, it has 38 clinical departments and 7 Specialised Centres.
• CNUH opened a clinic for international patients in 1998. Over the years, with an increase in foreign patients, the clinic gradually expanded to become an International Medical Centre which was created in 2014. It aims to increase convenience and efficacy of service to meet the growing needs of international patients. The International Medical Centre is located in the Children's Hospital on the 1st Floor.
• In 2017, CNUH is designated as the best hospital for colorectal cancer surgery for 5 consecutive years. In the same year, it was designated as an excellent emergency medical service hospital and an excellent hospital for gastric cancer for 2 consecutive years. It also received the first-rate in the assessment of appropriateness of hemodialysis. Moreover, the Regional Cardio-cerebrovascular Center was designated as the best institution. 
• In 2016, CNUH was designated as the first-rate hospital in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft.
• In 2015, CNUH was designated as the first-rate among 316 hospitals nationwide. It was also designated as the first-rate hospital in the assessment of appropriate treatment of the acute stroke by HIRA for 5 consecutive times. By the end of the year, it received the first-rate for 4 consecutive years in the assessment of appropriate use of antibiotics when acute otitis media occurs in infants and children.
• CNUH Trauma Center is entitled as Regional Trauma Center in 2013. In fact, in 2010, it was selected as a severe trauma centre by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
• CNUH has cutting-edge technologies and equipment.
• To enhance its research studies, CNUH has agreements with many universities in Europe, America, and Asia.
• It also provides volunteer medical services to countries like Uzbekistan and Malaysia to mention a few.

• The Inha University Hospital was opened in May 1996, the first university hospital in the greater Incheon area. Being ideally located close to the international airport, sea-port, and teleport, it aims to become the greatest medical port of Northeast Asia.
• It is a multispeciality hospital with 36 Clinical departments and 19 Specialised Centres including cancer. It also has a Health Promotion Centre specialising in an overall health check-up.
• The Clinical departments include Allergic Medicine, Cardiology, Clinical Pathology, Dentistry, Dermatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Gastroenterology, Infection Medicine, Nephrology, Neurosurgery, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Nuclear Medicine, Opthalmology, ENT, Orthopaedic Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Psychiatry, Rehabilitation Medicine, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, and Urology to mention a few.
• It has an International Healthcare Centre, an outpatient clinic since 2009. It provides medical services to foreign nationals and Koreas going abroad. The Centre has medical doctors, a registered nurse, and six coordinators who are fluent in English, Russian, and Chinese.
• The Hospital operates the Incheon International Airport Medical Centre at Terminal 1 and 2. The Centres have received appreciation awards from China and Thailand Embassies.
• It is equipped with the most advanced state-of-the-art medical instruments and technologies.
• The Hospital was selected as the official hospital for the 2002 World Cup.
• In 2005, it was certified as the best health promotion centre.
• In 2008, it was awarded as an outstanding hospital in attracting international patient by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Korea. In the same year, it acquired the ISO 9001 Quality management system certificate in Health screening. Moreover, it was selected as the National Clinical Trial Research Centre.
• In 2009, it received a JCI accreditation for their quality services and ensuring safety of patients. It was also designated as the Medical Equipment Clinical Trial Centre by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family.
• In 2017, it was selected as the best medical device safety information monitoring centre. It was given the 1st grade of coronary artery bypass surgery adequacy evaluation. The Hospital is also ranked highly on the treatment of 4 major cancers (stomach cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer).
• It received 1st grade for 3 consecutive years for evaluation of COPD adequacy in 2018. Not only this, it also received 1st place in the National Emergency Medical Institution evaluation. It was given the Best KALS TS Award from the Korean Association of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.

• Inje University–Haeundae Paik Hospital is a super-specialty hospital that was opened to public in 2010 and is equipped with the most advanced equipment and latest medical technologies. In its first year of commencement, the hospital made significant progress, in that it carried out the first kidney transplant operation, carried out the first robotic surgery, opened a thyroid center and a Gamma Knife center. In 2014, it carried out Radiation Oncology Truebeam Operation. It also opened a nursing care ward in 2017, followed by the expansion of bronchoscopy room in 2018. 
• In 2012, it was designated as an excellent hospital for tuberculosis control in Busan. 
• The hospital has 44 departments, 15 special centers and clinics to offer treatments for various medical conditions. As of 2010, the bed capacity was +1,000. 
• The hospital provides a one-stop service in specialised services for organ transplantation center, shock trauma center and robot surgical center. 
• Some of the high-tech equipment in the hospital are 3-D movement analysis system, Radiation therapy equipment and the Da Vinci surgical system.
• The hospital is located in a cosmopolitan area and is fitted with a curtain wall and an individual heating system. The hospital is so designed as to incorporate plenty of nature's beauty into it. It is the first hospital in the world to have an entire floor of alkaline seaside hot springs. This makes the hospital stay for a patient truly salubrious. 
• The hospital's International Health Care Center was set up to make healthcare available to even non-Koreans. The center has onboard doctors and nurses who are fluent in various foreign languages. The center considers international patients with Korean Health Insurance and accepts most foreign health insurance. 

• 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.

• 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)

• 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.

• The Anam hospital at the University of Korea was set up in 1991 and has been devoted to elevating the quality of medical service through the introduction of state-of-the-art equipment and employing top-notch medical professionals.
• The center houses the latest generation medical equipment such as PET-CT scan, Linear accelerators, 3.O T MRI, latest-gen surgical robots, etc.
• The center Received the prestigious Joint Commission International (JCI) certification in 2007.
• Towards supporting foreign patients an International Medical Center was set up in 2009.
• Overall the hospital is set up in an area of 43,391 ㎡, which includes 36 departments and 25 specialized centers, employing more than 2700 personnel (Medical Staff 605, Nursing Staff 832, General Staff 205) as of 2014.
• Anam Clinic is ranked 1^st in Asia in terms of the number of robotic surgical interventions performed for the removal of bladder cancer.