Myongji Hospital said it has received the highest grade of Grade 1 in the first adequacy evaluation of dementia treatment.
The Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) conducted its first dementia adequacy assessment on 889 medical institutions that treated new dementia patients from October 2021 to March 2022.
In the assessment, Myongji Hospital received high marks of 90 points or more in four indicators. It also won 76.7 points, more than two times higher than the average 35.7 points in the indicator blood test rate essential for dementia diagnosis.
The four adequacy assessment indicators are; the ratio of neurological and psychiatric specialists among doctors treating dementia-relate outpatients or the share of those who received dementia-related education; structural brain imaging test ratio for diagnosis of dementia; essential blood test ratio for diagnosis of dementia; and the ratio of screening and scale test for dementia diagnosis.
“As Korea enters into an aged society, the number of dementia patients has sharply increased, resulting in various social and economic difficulties,” Myongji Hospital Director Kim Jin-goo said. “Our hospital provides holistic care that not only recovers patients’ health but also embraces their family members’ minds.”
Myongji Hospital, located in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, launched a public medical business corps in 2013 as the first private hospital in Korea and has operated the “Baekse Chongmyeong School,” roughly translated as School for Smart Centenarians, providing services to prevent, treat, and rehabilitate dementia and its patients in the area. The school has received the Social Responsibility Award and Asian Hospital Management Grand Prize from the International Hospital Federation (IHF).
Besides, it recently received a letter of citation from Gyeonggi Province for treating, preventing, and managing dementia.