NTUH healthcare system
The National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) has a history tracing back to 1895, when it was founded in Dadaocheng, Taipei. The old hospital there was relocated to the present site (now the West Campus) in 1898, where the original timber-structured building underwent continued renovations starting from 1912. When renovations, which transformed the structure into a tropical renaissance-style building, were completed nine years later in 1921, the hospital became the largest and most modern in Southeast Asia.
Another seventy years later in 1991, the East Campus was completed, which became connected to the West Campus via the underground Jing-Fu Tunnel. Currently, both campuses collectively employ over 6,700 staff and have a capacity of around 2,600 beds. To optimize the hospital’s pediatric services, the reserve site for the children’s hospital was designated in 1994, and constructions commenced in 2003 for the pediatric building, which was officially opened in July 2008.
Over the last hundred-plus years since its founding, NTUH has cultivated numerous medical talents, including medical specialists, pharmacists, nurses, as well as other healthcare personnel, many of whom are spread across the globe performing outstandingly in their chosen fields. With regards to medical services, NTUH is renowned for the clinical care it offers and is highly trusted by the people of Taiwan. NTUH's diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis and cancer, as well as organ transplants, cutting-edge research in biophotonics, and drug trials frequently receive world-wide recognition.
As a national teaching hospital, NTUH is shouldered with three major tasks: teaching, research and service, on which the institution strives to carry forth its fine traditions.
- Teaching: The hospital is aligned with the university's curriculum for the education and training of medical professionals and specialists.
- Research: Resources are integrated to establish core laboratories and provide the best research facilities and environment. Our current research focus is in cancer, immunological diseases, cardiovascular disease, organ transplants, biomedical optics, and medical imaging.
- Service: We emphasize patient safety and strong administrative management as well as a solid foundation in humanized care. We carry out review and re-designs of all service facilities and work flows as part of our efforts to provide high quality and top-notch medical services.
Apart from these three main tasks, NTUH is also committed to promoting international cooperation. Through such cooperation, we not only leverage the experience and knowledge of advanced countries, which boost the development of Taiwan’s own medical technology, we also bring with us feedback and the will to fulfil Taiwan’s role as a global citizen. Specifically, NTUH actively provides assistance to countries in need of medical resources, and in doing so, modernizes the standard of their healthcare.
Since our founding a century ago, NTUH has laid a solid foundation in service, teaching, and research. In our efforts to become a role model in Taiwan, NTUH is more proactive in complying with government healthcare development policies. We fulfil our social responsibility by providing medical care of a higher quality to more people. Since 2004, NTUH has taken up the DOH’s (Department of Health, now Ministry of Health and Welfare) Yunlin Hospital, the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences Hospital, the North Coast Jin-Shan Hospital, and the DOH Hsin-Chu and Chu-Tung Hospitals, which have now became the Yun-Lin, Bei-Hu, Jin-Shan, Hsin-Chu, and Chu-Tung branches of NTUH, respectively. Also, NTUH funded the constructions for a new branch at Hsinchu Biomedical Science Park, which began operating at the end of 2019. In 2021, NTUH’s three branches in the Hsinchu area were integrated into the umbrella NTUH Hsin-Chu branch. Currently, the NTUH system has a total of more than 5,000 hospital beds and around 12,100 full-time employees. A brief introduction of each branch from the north to the south of the country are provided below.
Jin-Shan Branch
From October 1, 2010, the North Coast Jinshan Hospital became the Jin-Shan Branch of NTUH. Located off Yangjin Road in New Taipei’s Jinshan District, the hospital grounds span approximately 6,000 square meters in area, and has an eight-floor building (including one underground level), employing more than 150 full-time staff. In addition to providing outpatient, inpatient, and emergency services, the hospital began offering hemodialysis in March 2011 to create easier access for local patients.
The geologically isolated North Coast overlooks the ocean and has the mountains to its back, where residents are made up of a rapidly aging population. The NTUH’s Jin-Shan branch mainly offers general medical care for people living in the area. With NTUH’s resources, the branch also carries out teaching and medical research, as well as new and integrated health care models in community health, geriatrics, and telemedicine. By promoting the creation of a health community and striving to raise local healthcare standards, the Jin-Shan branch looks forward to bringing top-notch medical treatment from NTUH to the Jinshan area, to better serve local residents and develop feature healthcare.
Bei-Hu Branch
The National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Science Hospital became the Bei-Hu branch of NTUH on August 1, 2004. Located in Taipei City’s Wanhua District, the branch currently staffs more than 260 full-time employees. One of the developmental focuses of the hospital is to turn itself into a “Combined center of geriatric medicine and long-term care”. In 2012, the new building at Bei-Hu branch was opened to offer patients a more friendly hospital environment.
The Bei-Hu branch not only provides a highly acclaimed nursing home and home care services, it also offers subspecialty clinics, rehabilitation programs, and dialysis services with support from the NTUH system. Additionally, the branch actively works with the government in long-term care plans, developing health services for the elderly with community organizations. The Bei-hu branch has also been dedicated to establishing thorough assessment and combined outpatient care for seniors with multiple chronic co-morbidities, which is pioneering the field of geriatric medicine in Taiwan. In-patient care at Bei-Hu, on the other hand, focuses on holistic care with elderly patients and their families at its core. This service emphasizes an “Aging Locally” geriatric care model that is centered on the patient and encompasses the family as a unit and the community as a foundation.
The National Taiwan University Cancer Center (NTUCC)
The National Taiwan University Cancer Center (NTUCC)located in the campus of National Taiwan University, Da’an District of Taipei, is a new 14-story cancer treatment facility with 500 in-patient beds, operating rooms, day time infusion center, intensive care units, isotope treatment center, early clinical trial ward and radiation therapy center, including a proton center to be opened 2022. NTUCC became a branch of National Taiwan University Hospital in June of 2021. The mission of NTUCC is to provide up-to-date best cancer treatment, conduct translational cancer research and to train students and young staffs in a patient/staff friendly environment.
NTUCC provides patients with total cancer care solution. Centers for individual cancer treatment such as women’s center for breast cancer, lung cancer combined clinic, liver cancer combined clinic, pain and palliative clinic etc. were established. Patients can be taken care of by physicians with different sub-specialties at the same visit. In addition, NTUCC also provide general medicine, rehabilitation, ophthalmology, mental health clinic for cancer patients as well as general public patients. NTUCC aims to become the best cancer center in the Chinese spoken region in Asia Pacific and one of the best cancer centers in the world.
NTUH Hsin-Chu Branch
Our mission:
To achieve the status of a national medical research center, and transform greater Hsinchu into a city of smart health.
The National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) Hsin-Chu Branch was established on January 1, 2021 as a joint entity encompassing the three branches of the NTUH in greater Hsinchu: the Hsin-Chu and Chu-Tung Branches (restructured in July 2011); and the Biomedical Science Park Branch (opened in December 2019). The current Hsin-Chu branch is organized as one agency (NTUH Hsin-Chu Branch) and two institutions (NTU Hsin-Chu Hospital and NTU Biomedical Park Hospital).
The integrated Hsin-Chu Branch has an organizational structure comprising 24 medical departments, 8 specialty medicine centers, 2 research and teaching departments, 11 medical support departments and 7 administrative departments. A gradual and steady increase of Hsin-Chu branch’s healthcare service capacity is projected, with a maximum bed count looking at 1,969 and over 4,000 healthcare employees. The NTUH Hsin-Chu branch continues to uphold the spirit of “operational integration, resource-sharing and task-role division”, and strives towards becoming a medical center meeting the public’s healthcare needs. While the branch increases the breadth and scope of healthcare in the greater Hsinchu region, it also aims to enhance the health service quality of the Taoyuan-Hsinchu-Miaoli region as a whole.
Each of the three campuses of the Hsin-Chu branch has their own feature specialties and mission. The NTU Hsin-Chu Hospital focuses on providing advanced emergency and critical care; the NTU Biomedical Park Hospital offers translational medicine research, medical device innovation and drug development, while offering emergency, oncology, high-end health check-ups and international-grade specialty medical services; and the Chu-Tung Campus provides services centered on community and remote healthcare, including chronic disease management, as well as geriatric and psychiatric care.
Many future projects are in sight, such as the phase 2 construction of the NTU Biomedical Park Hospital research building and phase 3 development planning; establishment of the NTU Hsin-Chu Hospital Nanya Campus; and the establishment of various feature medicine centers, including a translational medicine research center, a cardiovascular center, a neurology center and a women & children’s center. In addition, we maintain space for dialogue and cooperation between the biomedical industry and clinicians, provide comprehensive training to healthcare personnel, and investment into key innovation and research areas, all towards the goal of turning the greater Hsinchu region into a city of smart health.
Yun-Lin Branch
The DOH (now MOHW) Yun-Lin Hospital became the NTUH Yun-Lin branch on April 1, 2004. Situated in Douliu City in Yunlin County, the hospital is comprised of a medical building, emergency building, rehabilitation building, and mental health building. Yun-Lin Hospital is equipped with facilities for cardiac catheterization, CT scan, angiography, and MRI. Since the NTUH medical team was stationed here, the branch has successfully performed therapeutic cardiac catheterizations, open heart surgeries and laparoscopic surgeries, making the branch the only hospital in the Yunlin area accredited as a Regional Teaching Hospital.
To meet local medical needs, the NTUH Yun-Lin Branch opened the new Huwei Campus in September 2007, located 15 kilometers, or a 20-minute drive from the Douliu Campus. With a focus on cancer treatment, the hospital not only has facilities for radiotherapy, medical imaging, and nuclear medicine, it also has a designated outpatient chemotherapy area and oncology beds. In 2008, the hospital established a cancer center, which now provides many cancer services.
The Yun-Lin branch has currently 940-some beds and more than 1,700 full-time staff. With a mission to safeguard the health of locals, the branch is dedicated to continue improving its health service quality in aims of becoming the most trusted and favored medical center in the Changhua, Yunlin, and Chiayi area.