Samsung Medical Center
| Samsung Medical Center | |
| Hangul | 삼성의료원 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Samseong uiryowon |
| McCune–Reischauer | Samsŏng ryowŏn |
Samsung Medical Center (SMC) is a tertiary hospital located in Irwon-Dong of Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, South Korea. SMC is composed of Samsung Seoul Hospital (삼성서울병원), Kangbook Samsung Hospital (강북삼성병원), Samsung Changwon hospital (삼성창원병원), and Samsung Life Sciences Research Center (삼성생명과학연구소). SMC was founded on November 9, 1994 under the philosophy of “contributing to improving the nation’s health through the best medical service, advanced medical research, and development of outstanding medical personnel." Since its foundation, Samsung Medical Center has successfully incorporated and developed an advanced model with the motto of becoming a "patient-centered hospital".
The center, called by media "no. 1 in the nation", has been criticized for its poor handling of the MERS outbreak.
Samsung Medical Center consists of a hospital and a cancer center. The hospital is located in an intelligent building with floor space of more than 200,000 square meters and 20 floors aboveground and 5 floors underground, housing 40 departments, 10 specialist centers, 120 special clinics, and 1,306 beds. On the other hand, the 655-bed Cancer Center has 11 floors aboveground and 8 floors underground, with floor space of over 100,000 square meters. SMC is a tertiary hospital manned by approximately 7,400 staff including over 1,200 doctors and 2,300 nurses. Since SMC was opened in 1994, SMC has become Korea's representative medical institution. It has provided medical treatments for 16 million outpatients, and SMC is giving treatments to an average of 8,000 patients daily. SMC is leading to make further developments in the medical field in Korea and is planning to build the Samsung International Medical Center by 2015. In March 2010, SMC announced the Project to become a “globally leading” hospital in the medical market.
Equipped with advanced medica service infrastructure including outstanding medical staff, order communication system (OCS), picture archiving communication system (PACS), clinical pathology automation system, and logistics automation system, SMC is defining a new hospital culture in Korea by being the best hospital in terms of hi-tech medical services and through the provision of genuine patient-centered medical services (shortest waiting time, hospital that does not require guardians).
Since March 1997 when it was established to train the students of Sungkyunkwan University's School of Medicine, the Samsung Medical Center has admitted 40 of the nation’s top students each year. As a teaching hospital for the Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, the Hospital autonomously trains and nurtures clinical instructors and medical specialists.
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