Yanhee International Hospital ( th, โรงพยาบาลยันฮี oːŋpʰájaːbaːn jənhiː YAHN-hee) is a multi-service general hospital in

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, that specializes in a range of medical and cosmetic services. Yanhee comprises a 15-story hospital building with a 400-bed capacity, 150 full-time doctors, 120 part-time health professionals, and 800 nurses. Additionally, Yanhee operates 95 outpatient examination rooms, 12 major and 30 minor operating rooms, an 18-bed Intensive Care Unit, emergency rooms, delivery rooms, a diagnostic laboratory and a nursery.

Site

Yanhee International Hospital is located in the Bang-O,

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of northeastern Bangkok, on Charansanitwong Road. The hospital maintains 36 treatment centers in general medicine and cosmetics, serving about 2,000 outpatients daily and more than 100,000 social security enrollees. Yanhee operates 24 hours daily, with services provided by 130 full-time doctor specialists, 125 part-time specialists, and more than 1,500 healthcare professionals and support staff.

History

Yanhee International Hospital was opened in 1984 as a small outpatient clinic by Dr. Supot Sumritvanitcha, M.D., N.D., who named the hospital after the Yanhee Power Plant located nearby. The hospital is now more well-known than the power plant (which has also since changed its name), and the original Yanhee International Hospital has been expanded many times over to include its numerous services.

Services and Medical Centers

The following is a list of departments and special services offered at Yanhee International Hospital: * Aesthetics (non-surgical) * Aesthetic Gynecology Center * Bariatric Surgery * Cardiac Center * Check-up Center * Cosmetic Surgery * Dental Care * Dermatology * Detox Center * Diabetes Center * Dialysis * ENT * Fertility Treatment * Gastroenterology * General Surgery * General Medicine Center * Hair Removal Center * Hair Transplant * Hemodialysis Center * Hyperbaric Center * Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy * Imaging * Laser Skin Treatment * Medical Check-up Center * Neurology * Obstetrics - Gynecology * Ophthalmology * Orthopedics * Pediatric Center * Skincare Center * Sex Reassignment Surgery * Urology * Vein Center

Facilities

Accreditation and Standards

Yanhee International Hospital has several accreditations and runs under official standardization procedures. The hospital implemented the

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(ISO) 9001:2000, and currently maintains that standardization. Yanhee recently received accreditation from the

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Accreditation, USA which became effective on 22 January 2011, and will run through January 2014. Yanhee also has accreditation from Hospital Accreditation, Thailand.

Awards and recognition

On May 25, 2012, Yanhee International Hospital was awarded the

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Gold Award for Asia's Most Trusted Brands. The Reader's Digest Trusted Brands Survey attempts to identify the top brands that consumers in Asia trust. Scoring for the survey is based on six core ideals: trustworthiness and credibility, quality, value, understanding of customer needs, innovation and social responsibility. Yanhee International Hospital is known for having particularly knowledgeable and skilled surgeons for

sexual reassignment surgery Gender-affirming surgery (GAS) is a surgical procedure, or series of procedures, that alters a transgender or transsexual person's physical appearance and sexual characteristics to resemble those associated with their identified gender, and alle ...

, also known as a sex change operation. One of Yanhee's most famous sex change patients is

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star

Parinya Charoenphol Parinya Charoenphol ( th, ปริญญา เจริญผล; ), nicknamed Toom,; also known by the stage name Parinya Kiatbusaba; and the colloquial name Nong Toom or Nong Tum,; ; meaning 'Lil Sis Toom' is a Thai boxer, former muay ...

, known publicly as Nong Toom. Nong Toom gained fame and fortune in 1998 as a champion kickboxer at Lumphini Stadium, but in 1999 arrived at Yanhe Hospital to undergo a full sex change operation, changing her male body to the female she currently is today. The hospital was also featured in an episode of

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's Taboo Series, in which a patient sought sex change surgery at Yanhee. Yanhee is also known for its famous "rollerblade girls," who zip through the hospital carrying patient documents and internal paperwork, wearing short skirts and rollerblades.

Humanitarian Work

Yanhee Hospital participates in Operation Bright Smile, a program that manages free surgery and care for children born with a

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. Yanhee Hospital provides surgery for 100 children with

cleft lip A cleft lip contains an opening in the upper lip that may extend into the nose. The opening may be on one side, both sides, or in the middle. A cleft palate occurs when the palate (the roof of the mouth) contains an opening into the nose. The te ...

or palate each year, free of charge, and for the more than 14 years that Yanhee has participated in the program, the hospital has helped more than 1,115 children. Yanhee continues to run the program, which, according to the hospital “lets these children face tomorrow with a brighter smile.” In 2010, Yanhee Hospital gained popularity for accepting a charity patient who suffered from severe chemical burns on her face, which left her permanently disfigured. She had been denied re-construction surgery by several other hospitals before being accepted at Yanhee, where Dr. Sukit Wangthamran and Dr. Thawatchai Boonpattanapong performed 10 surgeries to alleviate the damage left from the accident. CEO of Yanhee, Dr. Supot Sumritvanitcha, reportedly believed the charity case to be a "good opportunity to let the people know that there is always hope for people who are at the brink of despair but continually reach out in search of a helping hand." The hospital also organizes

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every year, in order to address the consistent problem of blood shortage throughout healthcare institutions. These blood drives occur every three months and Yanhee has conducted more than 15 blood drives since beginning the program.

International Patients and Medical Tourism

A large number of patients who receive medical care from Yanhee come from overseas; in fact, approximately 9,000 of the people Yanhee serves are foreigners, most of whom travel from

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, and the

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. Patients from 27 different countries worldwide arrived at Yanhee in 2009, with 72% of those undergoing cosmetic procedures. Due to the high number of foreign patients, Yanhee staffs a number of interpreters, and languages spoken at Yanhee include: * English * Filipino * Korean * Arabic * French * Malayu * Burmese * German * Russian * Cambodian * Vietnamese * Thai * Chinese * Japanese Yanhee’s emphasis on beauty enhancement procedures is demonstrated by the fact that, of the total number of international patients that Yanhee serves, 72% receive cosmetic care, 12% receive care in general surgery and medicine, 8% receive dental care, and another 8% receive care in alternative medicine. Of the total number of

cosmetic surgery procedures Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty involving the restoration, reconstruction or alteration of the human body. It can be divided into two main categories: reconstructive surgery and cosmetic surgery. Reconstructive surgery includes craniofa ...

conducted at Yanhee Hospital,

breast augmentation Breast augmentation and augmentation mammoplasty is a cosmetic surgery technique using breast-implants and fat-graft mammoplasty techniques to increase the size, change the shape, and alter the texture of the breasts. Augmentation mammoplasty is ...

comprises 20%;

face lift A facelift, technically known as a rhytidectomy (from the Ancient Greek () "wrinkle", and () "excision", the surgical removal of wrinkles), is a type of cosmetic surgery procedure used to give a more youthful facial appearance. There are mul ...

comprises 16%;

blepharoplasty Blepharoplasty (Greek: ''blepharon'', "eyelid" + ''plassein'' "to form") is the plastic surgery operation for correcting defects, deformities, and disfigurations of the eyelids; and for aesthetically modifying the eye region of the face. With t ...

comprises 12%;

tummy tuck Abdominoplasty or "tummy tuck" is a cosmetic surgery procedure used to make the abdomen thinner and more firm. The surgery involves the removal of excess skin and fat from the middle and lower abdomen in order to tighten the muscle and fascia o ...

, nose reshaping and

liposuction Liposuction, or simply lipo, is a type of fat-removal procedure used in plastic surgery. Evidence does not support an effect on weight beyond a couple of months and does not appear to affect obesity-related problems. In the United States, lipo ...

comprise 9%;

breast lift Mastopexy (Greek μαστός ''mastos'' "breast" + -pēxiā "affix") is the plastic surgery mammoplasty procedure for raising sagging breasts upon the chest of the woman, by changing and modifying the size, contour, and elevation of the breasts. ...

and

hair transplantation Hair transplantation is a surgical technique that removes hair follicles from one part of the body, called the 'donor site', to a bald or balding part of the body known as the 'recipient site'. The technique is primarily used to treat male patt ...

comprise 5%; nose implants,

breast reduction Reduction mammoplasty (also breast reduction and reduction mammaplasty) is the plastic surgery procedure for reducing the size of large breasts. In a breast reduction surgery for re-establishing a functional bust that is proportionate to the woma ...

, and

varicose vein Varicose veins, also known as varicoses, are a medical condition in which superficial veins become enlarged and twisted. These veins typically develop in the legs, just under the skin. Varicose veins usually cause few symptoms. However, some indiv ...

treatment comprise 3%,

hair removal Hair removal, also known as epilation or depilation, is the deliberate removal of body hair or head hair. Hair typically grows all over the human body and can vary in thickness and length across human populations. Hair can become more visible ...

comprises 2%, and other procedures comprise the remaining 1%. Yanhee is part of an extensive medical tourism network and is a popular destination for foreigners seeking quality medical care, not only for cosmetic purposes, but general health purposes as well.

References

External links

Official Thai Website of Yanhee International Hospital
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