Kangbuk Samsung Hospital

Kangbuk Samsung Hospital

Kangbuk Samsung hospital is one of the oldest hospitals in South Korea opened in 1968 in Seoul. It aims to provide excellent health care services through medical research and public health projects. The hospital team and staff have worked day and night for the past 40 years to create a healthy society, fighting many diseases with their modern technologies. KBSMC intends to become a global leader of patient centered treatment and a leading hospital in future offering state of art facilities to the world.

The hospital provides integrated medical services from disease diagnosis to treatment. It also provides integrated medical checkup for disease prevention as they serve their patients before things get too complicated with complete dedication and quality care. It has a competent medical team and advanced technologies  which makes it  one of the most trusted and credible institutions in South Korea. KBSMC has established the first “total healthcare center" in Korea.

Not only but also, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital in Seoul is one of the biggest research centres of Korea coming up with groundbreaking scientific discoveries with its research partnership with John Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center(NY).

The top level services provided by the hospital includes:

• Emergency medicine and laboratory medicine
• Anesthesia pain medicine
• Cardiothoracic surgery
• Circulation Division
• Dental clinic
• Dermatology
• Division of gastroenterology, infectious diseases, nephrology, pathology & rheumatology
• E.N.T
• Internal medicine of Endocrinology & respiration
• Family practice faculty
• Mental health & nuclear medicine
• Neurosurgery
• Oncology & hematology
• Ophthalmology
• Urology
• Rehabilitation medicine
• Obstetrics

Why choose Kangbuk Samsung Hospital ?

Kangbuk Samsung hospital had the privilege to receive a reputable  “Certificate of Excellent Service Quality for healthcare” for two years in a row. It is an  institution of research and education  providing foremost medical facilities.

The hospital is also top-rated in 11 departments of the treatment proprietary index, the best in the country, by the ministry of health & welfare and the health insurance Review & assessment services. It is ranked first in external evaluation, in healthcare center brand value in the Korea brand star for 4 successive  years. Kangbuk Samsung hospitals professionalism and passion to serve made it to rank first in patients' satisfaction in a survey conducted by the weekly newsmagazine.

It also won an award for its overall service quality by Korean agency for technology and standards of the ministry trade, industry & energy. In addition, it also got the privilege to receive the award for ethical management of services from the Korean service management development institute. They strive to make customers' satisfaction a reality by doing patient prioritized treatments ensuring their long healthy life.

The hospital has the aim of extending patient-centred treatment approaches. It meets to determine the best treatment technique based on the patient's medical history and current state. The hospital is constantly introducing state-of-the-art medical technology and diverse ways so that patients can obtain treatment in a comfortable setting without having to wait.

The hospital was also selected as one of the world’s best hospital for the treatment of colon, stomach, and liver cancer by HIRAS due to the lowest death rate even for highly complicated patients conditions. KBSMC is home to Korea's most advanced health screening facility, as well as the country's largest diabetic centre, breast cancer and thyroid cancer centres, and other cutting-edge medical facilities. It was the first hospital in Korea to begin medical screening in 1981.

Since then, Kangbuk Samsung has screened over a billion patients and has established itself as one of Korea's most notable screening centres. The diabetic centre also collaborates with the largest diabetic centres in the United States and Japan to help people treat and avoid diabetes.

Services and Facilities provided by Kangbuk Samsung Hospital

Kangbuk Samsung hospital has specialized laboratories such as the molecular biology lab, Genetics Lab, adult stem cell research cell and world-class germ-free animal lab. It has collaboration facilities and a variety of cutting-edge technologies. It is a smart hospital where the staff use network-based tablet PCs to check a patient's status in no time plus patients may video chat with the staff to obtain information about hospitalization, their medicines and discharge procedures.

They have 5 specialized centers, 32 departments and 700 hospital beds. All the private rooms in the hospital have Wi-Fi, tv, phone, clean washrooms and most modern facilities available thus they have the best accommodation facilities. The cost of treatment can also be covered by Korean National health Insurance.

They have the latest medical equipment which includes Da Vinci Robot, which enables minimally-invasive surgery. For comprehensive cancer treatments the hospital has the availability of the rapid Arc radiation therapy device. Furthermore, it has the Allura Xper, a specialized imaging device used for coronary angiography.

Advanced Technology at Samsung Kangbuk Hospital

Samsung Kangbuk has the availability of internationally competitive and advanced technologies that are not yet present in many other hospitals. This technological equipment have helped hospital gain a reputation worldwide and achieve low mortality rates. Some of the advancements in the territory are;

• MD-CT: Multidetector computed tomography, which uses a two-dimensional array of detectors to acquire several slices pictures, can accurately detect cancers in the lungs, pancreas, liver, kidneys, and gall bladder that are smaller than 1cm in size.
• Rapidarc radiotherapy: It is an image-guided, intensity-modulated radiation treatment (IMRT) technology utilised at Kangbuk Samsung Hospital that is exceptionally rapid and precise. It can treat the full tumor volume with a single rotation of the machine and can deliver complete IMRT with one or two rotations of the therapy. This 4D radiation approach is also noted for having the fewest negative effects on healthy body tissues in the surrounding area.
• High Tesla MR: The technique can detect any tumour, infarction, or aneurysm, as well as brain problems. It aids in the provision of precise and very accurate images of internal bodily areas, allowing Samsung hospital doctors to make accurate diagnoses.

International health services at Kangbuk Samsung Hospital

Kangbuk Samsung Hospitals tailored excellence and passion to serve invites the International customers promising to provide one of the best experiences, making them feel at home. International customers can make online reservations and the consultants themselves will call them to make an appointment. English language assistance is available for foreign patients and their families. Many hotels are nearby the hospital for the stay of patient's families.