KIMA MEMBERS : Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea скачать в хорошем качестве

KIMA MEMBERS : Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea

Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital (SSMH) is the representative medical institution of Catholic Medical Center which has the largest medical network in Korea, including 8 subsidiary hospitals and 7 research centers in Korea based on its 70 years of history. Patient-oriented, one-stop medical services are currently being provided at SSMH through a total of 25 special care centers including Catholic Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Organ Transplantation Center and Eye Center. Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital is the largest single building in Korea (22 upper floors and 6 underground floors) With 1,332 beds, 48 clinical departments, 800 medical doctors and 1,800 nurses, SSMH provides reliable top-quality medical services to 6,719 outpatients and about 1,166 in-patients per day. It also performs about 128 surgeries per day on an average. Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital is already well known for blood marrow transplantation. SSMH ranks number 5 for BMT in the world and it is the best institute in Asia both qualitatively and qualitatively. Currently, SSMH receives many BMT patients from other countries through the G2G cooperative contracts between South Korea and Abu-Dhabi Health Authority, Kazakhstan Health Authority, and First Central Hospital of Mongolia. SSMH became the first medical institute in Korea to receive ISO 9001 certification in 2005. As part of SSMH’s efforts to enhance patient safety, it achieved JCI accreditation in all areas in July 2010 and acquired the full accreditation from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Program (AAHRPP) in June 2010. In July 2013, the hospital successfully received JCI re-accreditation with 98% completeness in the 1298 areas inspected. SSMH is committed to treating international patients, and provides medical services that are in line with international standards. SSMH’s International Health Care Center, first opened in 2003, provides interpretation service in 5 languages including English, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and French. The hospital designated an international-patients-only ward to lower the language barrier between patients and the medical teams, and translated medical forms in English in efforts to establish “linguistic infrastructure” in the field of medicine.