The Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (CGMH; ) also known as Chang Gung Memorial Hospital or "Chang Gung Hospital", is a
hospital located in
Guishan District
Guishan District () is a district in northeastern Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
History
Guishan was formerly known as ''Kulunsia'' ( (Ku-lun-siā))). The name originated from a hill by the Mercy Buddha Temple of Shou Shan Rock, built in 7th year of the ...
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Taoyuan City
Taoyuan () is a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in northwestern Taiwan, neighboring New Taipei City to the north-east, Yilan County to the south-east, and Hsinchu County to the south-west. Taoyuan Distr ...
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
. It is part of the
Chang Gung Medical Foundation
The Chang Gung Medical Foundation (CGMH; ), also known as Chang Gung is a medical and hospital network located in Taiwan. It was founded in 1973 by Wang Yung-ching to commemorate his father Wang Chang-gung (). The hospital network has a total of ...
hospital network. The Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital offers nearly 4,000 beds and is among the
largest hospitals in bed capacity.
History
The hospital was founded in 1978 focusing on multiple medical specialties. Chang Gung receives an average of 8.2 million annual outpatient visits with 2.4 million inpatient treatment and has an average of 167,460 annual surgical patients. Chang Gung has completed over 1,000 successful liver transplants.
In 2015, the Proton and Radiation Therapy Center in Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital was established. This was the first proton center in Taiwan.
Chang Gung is known for its "craniofacial reconstructive surgery for cleft lips and palates and jaw deformity" and has trained 828 physicians as of 2018. In 2014, Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare recorded approximately 2,700 physicians from around the world have trained at hospitals in Taiwan.
Bolstered by its strong reconstructive capacity, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital is also the highest volume head and neck cancer treatment center in Taiwan and is one of the largest units in Asia.
Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital have shown that during cardiac arrest there is "a 60% chance to restart the heart at the hospital" with prior CPR and a 32% chance if no CPR is administered prior. Immediate CPR may "double the chance of survival for children who experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest".
Transportation
The hospital has the
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital metro station which assists in transport.
The station is numbered A8 and is currently one of the five express stations on the line.
See also
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Healthcare in Taiwan
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References
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1978 establishments in Taiwan
Buildings and structures in Tainan
Hospitals established in 1978
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