Taipei City Hospital

Renai Branch – History

• 1953 - Taipei Municipal Hospital was founded and provided only outpatient services.
• 1960 - Relocated to current address. Inpatient departments established.
• 1968 - Renamed as the ‘Taipei Renai Municipal Hospital’
• 1991 - Capacity expanded by the government to:

-10 Administrative Departments
-26 Medical Departments
-750 beds with 960 employees.

•  2005 – The ten Taipei Municipal Hospitals were amalgamated into ‘Taipei City Hospital’.
   

 

Renai Branch Organization

Taipei City Hospital Superintendent

Director

Branch Committee

Deputy Director

Chief, Administrative Center

Medical Department

Community Healthcare

Office of Infection Control

Department of Internal Medicine

Department of Surgery

Other Departments

 

Mission, Vision and Goals
Mission:

• To care for minority groups
• Community-based healthcare

 Vision:

• A total Care System
• The pursuit of excellence
• The health of citizens

 Goals:

• To become a community medical center
• To build the entire public healthcare system in Taipei City based on citizens

Renai’s Goals:

• A benevolent heart equipped with good practice
• Love your neighbors as yourself
• To become the guardian of the citizens’ health

 

Renai Branch Bed Counts

Item	Actual  Bed Count
Total Bed Count	827
General Beds	634
Special Beds	193
Intensive Care Unit Beds	38
Baby Cribs	20
Neonate Beds	7
Emergency Obstetric Beds	15
Dialysis Beds	36
Recovery Beds	10
Respiratory Care Ward Beds	40
Respiratory Care Center Beds	10
Hospice Beds	9

 

Hospital Personnel Structure

Staff	Numbers	Percentage
Doctors	202	19％
Nurses	447	44％
Medical Technicians	178	18％
Administrative staff	111	11％
Technicians	79	8％
Total	1017	100%

  
 Feature Centers of the Renai Branch

• Cancer Center
• Cardiovascular Center
• Neurology Center
• Liver Center
• Health Imaging Center
• Health Evaluation and Promotion Center

Cancer Center Medical Features:

• Integration into the Hospital Cancer Quality Improvement Program of Bureau of Health
•  Co-operation between Western Medicine and Traditional Medicine when treating cancer patients
• Set up the 13 cancers registration database and public reporting
• Running the multidisciplinary cancer conference
• Promoting cancer prevention by electronic information and web sites
• Case management and intensive follow up
• Total care of cancer patients

Cardiovascular Center
Medical Features:

• Certified by the Heart Association as the teaching and training hospital for cardiovascular internal medicine
• The first and only municipal hospital in Taiwan that is capable of performing cardiovascular operation independently

 

Services Features:

Diagnosis and treatment of cardiological diseases

• CATH: 390 cases in 2009
• Open Heart: 295 cases from 2005 to 2009

 

Neurology Center

Services Features:

•  Dementia and Memory Clinic:
  • School of Wisdom
  • Geriatric Clinic
•  Internal neurological services, surgical neurological services and biplane intervention angiography
• Innovation: establishing and assessing the Dementia Distance Care System

 

 Liver Disease Center

•  Medical Features:
  •  One of the best and the pioneer liver cancer teams in this country.
  •  Outstanding and leading ultrasound diagnosis and treatment techniques including Percutaneous Ethanol Injection (PEI) and Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) for liver cancer
  •  Collaborates with other departments to offer multi-disciplinary treatment for liver cancer

 

•  Services Features:
  • “Protect Your Liver” special integrated outpatient service

  •  All types of examination and treatments related to hepatitis, cirrhosis and liver cancer
     

• Gastrointestinal Center

• Medical Features:

  •  One of the best and well known gastrointestinal endoscopy teams in Taiwan

  •  Image enhanced endoscopy facilities
     

• Services Features:

  •  Painless endoscopy: endoscopy procedures under deep sedation 

  • All types of endoscopic examination including EGD, colonoscopy, retrograde cholangio-pancreatography and their related diagnosis and treatment procedures.