Best Vascular Surgery Hospitals in South Korea

• The Kangbuk Samsung Hospital was established in 1968 then known as Koryo Hospital, in Gyeonggyojang, a historical site in Seoul with a vision to improve public health through medical research and public health projects. Since then it has been progressively developing its research and technologies to maintain its vision. 
• It is a multispeciality hospital specialising in 32 departments.
• The hospital is known for its focus on patient-centered treatment. In fact, it was awarded the Patient Satisfaction No.1 hospital in 1994 in a hospital survey by the press. 
• The Kangbuk Samsung Hospital or KBSMC was selected by HIRAS (Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service) in 2012 as the best operational hospital for three kinds of cancer; namely, stomach cancer, colon cancer, and liver cancer. It had the lowest death rate of patients within a 30-day window after the operation. 
• It is also top-rated in 11 areas of the Treatment Propriety Index, the best in the country, by the Ministry of Health & Welfare and HIRAS.
• In 2014, KBSMC was chosen as the best diabetes mellitus treatment Centre by the Medical Korea Awards and took 1st place in healthcare centre brand value in the Korea Brand Star for four consecutive years. 
• In collaboration with Samsung Electronics in 2011, KBSMC has one of the most advanced IT technologies having equipped the medical teams with Samsung Galaxy Tabs and Galaxy Notes in order to communicate and understand patients so as to take a well informed and accurate decision for treatment of patients.
• KBSMC has created 5 Specialised centres to resolve, treat, and prevent medical diseases with state-of-the-art facilities and technologies. They are - Diabetes and Vascular Centre, Breast and Thyroid Cancer Centre, Gastrointestinal Cancer Centre, Total Health Care Centre, and Natural Birthing Centre.
• It is furnished with the MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), MDCT (Multi-Detector Computed Tomography) and PET-CT (Position Emission Tomography-Computerized Tomography).
• It is the only Korean hospital that has a contract with the John Hopkins University Hospital, USA, to establish a joint research project since 2009. Moreover, it also established agreements with Banting and Best Diabetes Centre in Canada on diabetes, and with Kuma Hospital in Japan on thyroid cancer.
• The Hospital extends its kindness by carrying out activities for local residents and in disaster-struck villages or where there are no doctors. It also conducts medical activities outside of Korea every year. 

• 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.

• 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)

• 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.     

• 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.

• 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.

• Ewha Womans University Medical Centre (EUMC) initially started as "Pogoonyogoan" - a house of many sick women in1887. It is the first women's hospital in Korea and has been leading Korean women’s medicine ever since its establishment. In November 2015, the current Ewha Womans University Medical Center was founded having both hospitals and medical schools.
• EUMC is an umbrella organisation consisting of Ewha Institute of Convergence Medicine and Ewha Clinical Trial Center, Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital, Ewha Womans University Cancer Center for Women, Ewha Womans University, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, and Ewha Womans University College of Nursing. It also operates Yangcheon-Gangseo Center for Dementia, Yangcheon Center for Mental Health and the Gimpo International Airport Clinic.
• It specialises in women's cancer such as breast cancer, thyroid cancer, and gynaecological cancer. It was selected as the best hospital in colon cancer treatment by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. It also received the best grade in stomach cancer and colon cancer surgery performance by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRAS). It was also given the first place as a ‘Good Cancer Center’ in patient satisfaction, in Korea Cancer Center Assessment conducted by a famous daily newspaper, MK Business News, and a global consulting group, Deloitte.
• EUMC is a multispeciality Hospital having many major Clinical departments and Centres. 
• It is certified KOIHA (2015 ~ 2019) by the Ministry of Health & Welfare Certification. It is patient safety and quality healthcare certificate. 
• The Hospitals have International Healthcare Centre serving patients from over 60 countries. It offers comprehensive healthcare services to foreign patients. The medical staff highly educated and experienced and there are coordinators who are fluent in English, Russian, Chinese, and Arabic. They are available to assist medical patients every step of the way.
• It also has a Health Promotion Centre, which is a one-stop premium health service. It is a women-friendly environment with sophisticated services and detailed attention and care. 
• EUMC is equipped with state-of-the-art medical technologies like the Da Vinci Surgical System, Intraoperative Radiation Therapy, and the Rapid Arc. It introduced the 128 channel PET-CT technology for the first time in Korea.
• In January 2020, Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, received the 2020 Award for Best Brand Award in General Hospital category.
• In 2019, Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital won the Korea Health & Medical Awards 2019 from the Minister of Health and Welfare.
• In 2018, the Mokdong Hospital acquired the highest grade for intensive care unit (ICU) assessment implemented by Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRAS). It also acquired the highest grade in treatment of acute stroke assessment by Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service.