Buddhist Tzu-Chi Medical Center Photo shown acquired

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Buddhist Tzu-Chi Medical Center

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established in Hualien in 1986
Tzu-Chi General Hospital

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Profession Enhancement
Qualified as Medical Center since 1999

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Special ward ICU 87 beds
?Hemodialysis NOR Total 269 beds
General ward Acute ward 500 beds Acute psychiatry
ward 40 beds Chronic ward 173 beds Total 713 beds
Burn ICU
982 beds
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Clinical Divisions
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Patient-oriented Space Design
General ward
Sunshine ICU
Out-patient department
Comfortable waiting room

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Major Surgeries

• Spine core surgery
• Joint reconstruction
• Tumor removal
• Laparoscope surgery
• Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
• Endoscope surgery

• Organ transplant
• Kidney, liver, heart
• Microscope surgery
• Brain tumor
• Microelectrode Recording
• Gamma knife
• Deep brain stimulation

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Neurological science center
Parkinsons Clinical and Research Center
Parkinsons therapy
Deep Brain Stimulation surgery

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G-CSF therapy for stroke
Neurological science center

• Gained international commentNew hope for Stroke
  patients

G-CSF therapy for acute stroke patient
The effect of clinical trial
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Stem Cells Center

• Bone marrow bank
• total data 282,873
• transplantation 1,050 cases
• donate bone marrow to 22
• countries around the world

• Umbilical cord blood
• stem cell bank
• total data 6,986 units
• transplantation 18 cases
• donate bone marrow to 5
• countries around the world

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Stem Cells Center

• Equipped with the most massive work-load HLA lab
  in Taiwan
• DNA Typing accuracy reach 99
• Core Labgenetic fingerprinting testing?micro
  tumor detection?Quantitative and qualitative
  analysis of hematopoietic stem cells?Isolation of
  Immunological cells

The Core lab

• Bone marrow transplantation center
• For best efficacy of transplant surgery,
  trasnplantation ward was designed and constructed
  by HEPA positive pressure, and of anti-dust
  construction materials.

HEPA anti-dust construction materials.
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Taiwans 1st Voiding Dysfunctional Theraputic
Center

• Use Botulinum A Toxin injection to cure voiding
  dysfunction
• a lot of research papers gained global awards
  recognition, such as Internatinational Continent
  Society, etc.
• Provide Pelvic floor muscle exercise and
  biofeedback therapy trainings for other hospitals

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Qualified Organ Transplant Hospital

• Qualified organ tissues transplant
  hospital--heart, liver, kidney, bone, the
  cornea, skin)
• Qaulified as Live liver heart transplantation
  hospital in 2005
• Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy
• Bone bank for transplantation

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Cooperation of DepartmentsCardiology and
Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery

• Restless 24-hour heart-saving team, always
  standby
• Invasive non-invasive interventional therapies
  and surgeries

Cardic catheterization
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Cancer Prevention

• Valued as one of the 14 Class A best cancer
  prevention center in Taiwan by the Bureau of
  Health Promotion, Department of Health, R.O.C.
• Integrate necessary departments for cancer
  prevention
• Our palliative care gained National Medical
  Quality golden award

National Medical Qualitygolden award set
Cancer prevention team meeting for brainstorming

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High Resolution Flowcytometry

• To detect minor amount of cancer cells (minimal
  residual disease) by high resolution
  flowcytometry since 2004.
• To assist on diagnosing rare blood disease, more
  than 400 cases served.

After transplantation cancer cells all gone
AML, after chemo-therapy0.3 cancer cells found
alive (CD19, CD33 )
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Head Neck tumor team

• Team work of ENT?Plastic Surgery, Dentistry, and
  Radiation oncology departments
• Maglinent tumor removal in Head neck area
• Oral Cavity 5-year survival rateStage I 83,
  Stage II 76, Stage III 57, Stage IV 25

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High-tech Health Check

• PET imaging--Combine PETX-ray computed
  tomography imaging machine for acurate early
  cancer diagnosis.

PET/CT

• 3-heart Checkup --
• Treadmill test
• Myocardial Perfusion Scan to screen if a person
  has coronary artery disease

Myocardial Perfusion Scan

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High-tech Health Check

• Chest CT
• Spiral CT to early detect lung tumor via
  3-dimentional high resolution scanning

• Brain disease screening
• screening for the high risk group, ex.
  Arteriosclerosis,high blood pressure, over
  weight, drinkingsmoking, family disease history,
  etc.

64-slice CT
MRI

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Laser Medical Center

• Liposuction
• Augmentation mammoplasty
• Calf reduction
• Double eyelid operation
• Upper blepharoplasty
• Lower blepharoplasty
• Augmentation rhinoplasty

• Botox injection
• Hyaluronic acid injection
• Intense pulse light skin rejuvenation
• Hair removal
• Nevus removal
• Laser for pigmentation

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Education Feature Body Donation
Those who would donate their bodies after death,
Tzu Chi praise them as the Silent Mentors,
and treat them with great respect.
One Silent Mentor once saidI would rather you
wrongly cut 20 times on my body. Dont make one
wrong cut on patients in the future.
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Education Feature Clinical Simulated Operation

• Fast frozen to keep body condition as alive as
  possible
• Same procedure as real operation

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Characteristic of teachingStandard patient
training

• Increase communication clinical skill by
  Standard patient training

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Volunteer service

• 200 volunteers one day at hospital
• Pre-hospital training 50 hours
• Ward service?home visit?compassion?organ donation
  service?increase doctor-patient relation

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Home Visit Service care for the weak and poor
Home visit and medical service in Chia-wan
village
Caring the family in Shoulin Township

Home visit in Reihsiu Township
Home visit in Yuli Township
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Good at trying community responsibility
bestHelp the medical treatment from far-off
regions
Shioulin Township
IDS
Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital
Wanrung Township
Cimei Village-Rueisuei Township
Juoshi Township
Yuli Tzu Chi Hospital
Lidao Wulu Village
Haiduan Township
Guanshan Tzu Chi Hospital
IDS
Luanshan Village -Yanping Township
Rueiyuan Village-Luye Township
(TIMA Volunteer medical consultation)
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Health Education for public audience

• TO promote health care service in local community
• Medical staff participating in Da-ai TVs
  television show, such as Great Love Healer, Live
  with Virus, Devotion in MedicineGuarding Love

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Boundless Medical Care Remarkable Resultes
Conjoined twins from Philippines in June 2003
President of Philippines visited the twins after
they went back home
Before
After

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Boundless Medical Care Remarkable Resultes
Novemthree with Gigantiform cementoma, from
Indonesia, June 2004
The whole story of treatments broadcasted in
Discovery Channel

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Boundless Medical Care Remarkable Resultes
18-year old boy from Indonesia, with a tumor
emerged from his face ad made his nose grow 2
tumors, June 2004
Before
After
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Boundless Medical Care Remarkable Resultes
Sofyan from West Java of Indonesia,whos tumor
expanding from front of his face to the left back
side of his head, causing his eyes to bulge out
from their sockets. He came to Hualien in
September 2004.
Before
After
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Boundless Medical Care Remarkable Resultes
A boy with Hallervorden-Spatz Syndrome, from
Singapore in October 2004.

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Major media in Singapore reported their story
after they were cured and back to Singapore

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Boundless Medical Care Remarkable Resultes
A Indian-Malaysian man with deformed leg by
Lymphatic Edema. December 2004. After treatment,
his fate changed -- spared hime from amputation.
Before
After
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TIMA around the World

• 40 points/branches
• Participation in 8 overseas free clinics, 19,669
  people served

remark( )means medical professional
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International Disaster Relief Medical Aid

• Medical staff in Tzu Chi hospital volunteerly
  attended the overseas medical support and
  disaster relief
• 8 times in 3 years, 53,300 victims served

remark( )means medical professional

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Devotion in medicine

• TIMA achieved the 14th Medical Devotion
  Award,Group award
• Honorary Superintendent Wen-ping
  Tseng(below)awarded Medical Devotion Award,
  Individual award

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Serve with humanity To cultivate talented crew
of humanitarian calibre, learn to serve
patients with love and gratitude
GlobalizeTo become a patient-centered hospital
and to upgrade to gain global recognition in
every way.Take Mayo Clinic as our model.
Future Perspective
Scientific High-tech To build up a information
network to improve our quality and efficacy of
management
LocalizeTo guard the health of people of local
communityby promoting integrated health care
program
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Gratitude.Respect.Love

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Thank you !