Asan Medical Center

Infobox Hospital
Name = Asan Medical Center
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Location = 388-1, Poongnap-2dong, Songpa-gu
Region = Seoul
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Country = South Korea
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Type = Tertiary referral hospital
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Beds = 2189
Founded = 1989
Website = http://www.amc.seoul.kr/eng/index.jsp|

Asan Medical Center(서울아산병원) Korea’s largest tertiary referral hospital with 2,189 beds, was founded in 1989 by the late Chairman Ju-Yung Chung of Asan Foundation, with the philanthropic principles of meeting the growing demand for specialized treatments to the under privileged in society. Since then, this patient-oriented hospital has been caring more than 8,300 outpatients, 2,080 inpatients, and 180 emergency patients, while successfully performing 195 complex surgical operations on a daily basis. When AMC opens a 20-story new building in 2008, this hospital will be equipped with 3,000 beds and could offer upgraded health care services.

Overview

*Average number of outpatients per day: 8,300
*Number of hospital admissions: 759,000 yearly / 2,080 daily
*Emergency department registrations: 66,200 yearly
*Surgical cases: 46,200 yearly

Medical

AMC runs 40 clinical examination departments and 16 specialty care centers for cancers, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes, and specialized clinics for each medical specialty. In particular, AMC shows an outstanding medical performance on cancer treatments and organ transplants. In February 2006, AMC was ranked number one in the number of operations performed for 9 out of top 10 major cancers among Koreans by the National Health Insurance and Health Insurance Review Agency. According to the 2006 annual report issued by the Korean Network for Organ Sharing of the Ministry of Health & Welfare, the number of organ transplants conducted by AMC was 581 out of 2,236, accounted for 24.9% of the 2006 total. AMC has been also operating the Quality Improvement team since 1993, and has electronic systems such as Order Communication System (OCS), Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) which were developed by its own technology, and medical equipment such as gamma knife, MRI, CT and so on.

Research and Study

In various areas of clinical and basic medicine, AMC published 567 and 825 research papers in 2005 and 2006 respectively to domestic and international medical fields, and provides integrated courses by affiliating with University of Ulsan College of Medicine. AMC offers medical students with clinical experiences by operating a pre-internship program twice a year as well. As an affiliate medical center of Harvard Medical School, AMC runs a mutual patient advisory and referral system with Harvard Medical School and collaborates in the areas of medical treatment, education, health technology planning through the exchange of doctors, nurses, health technicians, and administrative staff with Harvard Medical School.Through the partnership contracted with Imperial College London in February 2007, AMC pursues an active clinical exchange and joint research for the areas of clinical and basic medicine.

Culture Activity

AMC provides visitors with a chance to meet the world of art by exhibiting artworks in the lobby. A concert called ‘Asan Medical Center Love Concert’ which is performed by volunteering professional musicians and music majored students is held in the main hall every month. As other endeavors to provide patient friendly environment, AMC plays a movie and offers a reading room to patients and visitors.

History/Milestones

*May 2008 Opened the Asthma Center and the Pediatric Asthma/Atopy Center
*May 2008 Opened the new 772-bed hospital building, strengthening advanced medical system, environment-friendly medical services
*May 2008 Won the Grand Prize of the Korea Social Contribution Award in ‘The Company of Korea 2008’ organized by the Korea Consumer Forum
*April 2008 Successfully transplanted a heart to a 100-day-old baby for the first time
*April 2008 The Medical Team of Cardiology led by Professor Park Seong Jeong published their dissertation in the NEJM, one of the most prestigious academic journals in the world
*March 2008 Selected as the most respected hospital for two consecutive years by KMAC
*January 2008 Publicly recognized as a hospital with the highest number of surgery cases
*January 2008 Exceeded 300 cases of liver transplantation annually
*January 2008 Seoul Asan Hospital recorded 200 cases of heart transplantation, for the first time in Korea
*December 2007 Obtained the certificate for HON Code of the homepage of Seoul Asan Medical Center (a prestigious international certificate allowed to medical information websites that comply with the 8 Code of Ethics suggested by the HON)
*December 2007 Celebration for marking 10,000 cases of colon cancer surgery
*November 2007 Held a symposium to celebrate the 1,000th prostate cancer surgery
*November 2007 Held a working meeting with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the most prominent cancer research institute in the world
*September 2007 Designated as the Good Productivity Enhancement Company in 2007
*August 2007 Yanghyun Foundation offered the donations to foster cancel specialists
*July 2007 Held the 1st Asan International Digestive Disease Symposium
*April 2007 Implementation of in house-developed EMR system
*April 2007 Selected as the most respected hospital by KMAC
*April 2007 Selected as “Korea’s Most Admired Hospital” by KMA Consultants, Inc.
*March 2007 Partnership with the Imperial College in London, UK
*November 2006 IRB officially recognized at the Forum for Ethical Review Committees in Asia and the Western Pacific (FERCAP)
*October 2006 Ranked 1st in the National Brand Competitiveness Index (NBCI) by the Korea Productivity Center
*July 2006 World’s fist discovery of the production element of appetite control
*January 2006 AMC physicians perform Korea’s 1st simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplants living donors
*September 2005 Prime Minister Award as acknowledgement of free medical services to the survivors of the tsunami
*May 2005 The groundbreaking ceremony of the new building
*March 2005 Selected as Korea’s best hospital in performance measurement by the Ministry of Health & Welfare
*December 2004 Awarded the Minister of Government Administration and Home Affairs Prize
*December 2004 Fastest ever achievement of 1,000th liver transplant milestone
*December 2004 Won Presidential Prize in the Safety Management Awards
*December 2004 Open the Asan Research Center
*April 2004 First successful cardiac surgery using a robot conducted
*January 2004 1,500th kidney transplant surgery conducted
*November 2003 Awarded Grand Prize in the Korea Management Awards
*November 2003 World’s first discovery of cardiac valve replacement surgery using Ring
*September 2003 World’s first successful liver exchange transplant between four adults
*September 2003 Awarded Grand Prize for ‘Customer satisfaction’ at the National Productivity Awards
*December 2002 Awarded Presidential Prize for consumer protection services
*July 2002 First hospital in the nation to succeed in an open-heart surgery on a premature infant
*June 2002 Awarded Grand Prize in the Digital Awards 2002
*April 2002 First hospital certified ‘Korea Best Service’
*April 2002 Change the CI of Asan Medical Center
*January 2002 Liver transplantation exceeds 500 cases - Organ Transplantation Center
*December 2001 100th successful heart transplant surgery
*November 2001 Korea’s fist operation in Drug-Eluting Stent on a patient with angina pectoris
*April 2001 Successful heart transplantation on the youngest recipient in Korean history
*March 2000 AMC surgeons successfully transplant livers from two people into one patient for the first time in history
*March 2000 Department of Clinical Laboratory receives CAP certification for blood bank
*September 1999 Awarded Grand Prize & Best Entrepreneur Prize in the Customer Satisfaction (CS) Awards 1999
*July 1999 Selected a certificate company to solve the Y2K problem
*October 1998 Awarded Grand Prize for Customer Satisfaction from the Korea Management Association
*September 1998 Found the cause and treatment for intractable pulmonary hypertension
*January 1997 Interventricular septal defect cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention using 100% alcohol conducted
*July 1996 World’s first lacrimal obstruction intervention using Stent conducted
*April 1996 Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) surgery for preventing heart stroke conducted
*September 1995 Awarded in the 2nd Korea Business Cultural Awards
*December 1994 First blood-relation liver transplant conducted
*January 1993 First bone marrow transplant using hematogenesis hair cells conducted
*November 1992 Heart transplant conducted
*June 1992 Fist simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant conducted
*March 1991 World’s first coronary angioplasty using Stent conducted
*December 1990 Cerebral artery operation using extracorporeal circulation conducted
*June 1989 Open Seoul Joong-Ang Hospital of the Asan Foundation

Affiliates

Asan Foundation

The Asan Foundation was established by the late Chairman, Ju-Yung Chung, as one of the commemoration works for the 30th anniversary of Hyundai Engineering and Construction, the parent company of Hyundai Group. The Asan Foundation has focused on medical treatment and welfare business following the foundation’s purpose, “Helping the least privileged member of our society”. From the early stage, the Asan Foundation established 8 regional hospitals in rural areas such as Jeongeup, Bosung, Youngdeok , Hongcheon , Gangneung, where there were very few hospitals existed at the time, and has provided medical benefits through the hospitals.

University of Ulsan College of Medicine

Since founded in 1988, University of Ulsan College of Medicine has been operated in the unifications of clinical and basic medicine and runs programs to raise the student’s problem-solving ability. In December 2004, the university’s Seoul campus was moved in the Asan education Research Center of AMC, and AMC, Ulsan University Hospital, and Gangneung Asan Hospital are its teaching hospitals. There are 450 professors working at the University and 358 undergraduate, 797 master, and 275 doctor graduates since it has been founded.

Asan Research Center

Asan Research Center has an affiliation with AMC and University of Ulsan College of Medicine and performs researches in the areas of clinical medicine, basic medicine, and related fields.

Asan Health Network

Gangneung Asan Hospital, Keumkang Asan Hospital, Bosung Asan Hospital, Boryeong Asan Hospital, Youngdeok Asan Hospital, Jeongeup Asan Hospital, Hongcheon Asan Hospital