Goals

The hospital sets short, medium and long-term development program in accordance with its purpose, vision and goal. “Provide Holistic Care” strategy is to develop the excellence in specialties of medical treatment and enhance regional medical standards; “Cultivate outstanding talents” strategy is to develop the excellence in teaching and reward for research published with both quality and quantity; “To become the most trusted medical center to the public” strategy is to enhance patient’s safety, quality of medical treatment, improve operational efficiency and effectiveness. All actions both uphold medical ethics and fulfill the social responsibility.

Missions

1. To meet the development of KMU medical system and continue taking the KMU medical system go-out strategy. University and hospital work together to promote the strategic alliance and priority to construct long-term care system agencies and six-term new medical building plan.
2. Focus on investment and development of featured leading edge medical treatment, basing on the surgery medical specialties (such as Da Vinci Su Surgical System, the Renaissance System, etc.) and setting the interventional medical treatment of internal medicine as top priority.
3. Featured medical treatment also includes the integration of various medical resources and patient’s medical treatment process and develops immediate, effective, convenient, high quality that is truly patient-centered medical treatment.
4. Emergency and critical, transplant, cancer and other medical treatment on behalf of the role of medical center continue to strengthen and enhance on the existing basis.
5. Strengthen the international medical service, let the hospital become the Southern most important International Medical Center, and proceed to assess the feasibility to enter mainland medical care market.

Accomplishments

1. Service

1. ) Improve emergency, critical and difficult medical service network
The hospital is a medical center and responsible hospital for severe first aid, having acute stroke team, acute coronary syndrome team, ICU management committee and critical care medical center. It continues to serve the disabilities for 10 years and establishes the only dental medical service demonstration center with special needs affirmed by the Department of Health in central and southern and is the “Living donor liver removal and transplant surgery implemented hospital” approved by the Department of Health in 2011 and continues to develop liver and kidney living organs transplant surgery.

2. ) Develop diversified featured medical service
Continue participating in SNQ (Symbol of National Quality, representing Safety and Quality) and is rewarded every year. Total 19 groups including continued examination in Year 2012, and the “ New Vision for Blepharoptosis – the Innovative Frontalis – Orbicularis Oculi Muscle ( FOOM ) Flap Surgery” of Plastic Surgical care team is also rewarded the honor of Silver Prize of the National Biotechnology and Medical Care Quality Award, showing the quality and effectiveness of medical care has reached world-class standard.

3. ) Enhance the medical quality and create an organizational culture of patient’s safety
Continue promoting the various work plans of TRM Team, RCA Team, Patient’s Safety Group and Women-Friendly Group this year. Moreover, respond to the announcement of patient’s safety goal, “To strengthen the inpatient suicide prevention”, added by Medical Quality Improvement Council in academic year 2012, additionally set up the suicide prevention group to promote the implementation of various suicide prevention projects and in coordination with the Medical Quality Improvement Council to transact the medical institutions response activities on Patient’s Safety Week. The theme is I will “respond” to the patient’s safety, and there are 453 response persons in total and is awarded the “Benchmark Institutions on Patient’s Safety Week” by Medical Quality Improvement Council.

4. ) Actively cooperate with the National Hygiene and Medical Policy
Social service room actively transacts organ donation advocacy activities in January 2012 to June 2013 and in coordination with the Cancer Control Act. The hospital cancer resources station is honorably awarded the “Excellent Award” of result presentation of cancer resources single window in Year 2012 issued by the Bureau of Health Promotion, Department of Health, Taiwan.
The hospital is the leading hospital of poison and chemical disaster in Kaohsiung-Pingtung region, regularly holding annual joint exercises with responsible hospitals for nuclear, poison and chemical disaster and counseling other responsible hospitals to arrange the poison and chemical disaster education and training programs.
Conduct health promotion activities with whole hospital personnel and joyful together, including weight loss competition for health promotion, employee’s health promotion family day mountaineering activities, Wii Sport tennis match game, Karaoke singing competition, photography competition, essay competition of describing the KMU, and encourage colleagues to team up and participate in dragon boat racing. Bone Dragon Team wins the Second Place of institutions and schools group of International Dragon Boat Races in 2012. Actively participate in Smoke-Free, Age-Friendly and other hospital accreditations held by the Bureau of Health Promotion.

5. ) Participate in International Medical and Hygiene Service and Assistance Activities
The hospital participates in international medical, hygiene and assistance activities in fixed point, long-term and root way, and the excellent result is affirmed by Solomon Islands. The Governor, Sir Frank Kabui awards ”Cross of Solomon Islands” to President James D. Chen on Jun. 25, 2013.

2. Teaching

Jointly plan and implement the holistic care education programs by department of clinical education and training, clinical units, medical units and various departments of the university. All physicians, medical students, medical personnel and interns are required to participate in pre-service training and general medical continuing education, holistic care programs such as patient’s rights, medical ethics, medical laws and hospice care.

3. Research

As the benchmark type excellent clinical research center for the target, The hospital focuses on patient center and strengthens the link to translational medical research between genetic basis and pathogenic mechanism and upgrades the research to more refined and excellent to reach the international top position.