CYCH was begun with 30 beds and grew to be a modernized hospital with various medical professions and nearly 1000 beds. Now, CYCH is the largest regional teaching hospital in Yunlin - Chiayi area, we are equipped with all types of diagnostic equipment, and not only improve medical quality but also develop the sub-specialized professionals in order to serve in the role of guardian of health for the people. We also wish to extend our service to our country fellow in the rural areas.

Patient Care is the Central Part of the Multi-discipline Medical Team

CYCH provides the best medical care environment, with multidiscipline and team-work models which combine different specialized professionals to serve the patient, and special teams are formed, such as:kidney transplant team, bone marrow transplant team, cancer care team. CYCH also makes every endeavor to push forward the services of organ transplants, having already accomplished independently the kidney transplant, penetrating keratoplasty, the bone marrow transplantation, but also accomplished the inter-regional as well as inter-hospital organ transplantation with the National Taiwan University Hospital.

In view of the importance of departmental integration as well as to provide the patients with therapy that is more complete, currently the diabetes holistic outpatient service, the sleep obstruction holistic outpatient service, the woman cancer holistic outpatient service, have been set up. CYCH was awarded financial aid from the plans of “ the Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment of South Area,” “ Center of Vision Maintenance in South Region, ” and “ Health Center for the Teenager,” by the Institute of Health.

We have patients' family support groups, which combine the power of patient and family to develop various aspects of support and self-reliance, and mutual support from patients groups, which ultimately speed up the rehabilitation of the body, mind and spirit of the patient.

The respect of privacy by creating a safe and secure environment to visit doctor

Providing safety is the basic principle of taking care of sickness. Simultaneously it is also the core value for quality control. In order to establish good patient treatment relations, advancing medical services, the hospital forms a patient safety committee emphasizing patient ' s rights for medical treatment safety and guarantee of privacy.

The purpose of creating patient safe environment includes appropriate drug use, prevention of in-house infection and control, prevention of patients from falling, enhancing surgery accuracy and patient identification accuracy. In addition, establishing independent system, this encourages initiation of case reporting rather than punishing responsibility. Through such experience sharing, create a more secure medical treatment system. The system regards the patient as the core of medical system,treats the public as the partner of establishment safe medical environment. The patient security is the most basic requirement of the medical quality. It provides a high quality condition of the medical treatment.

Medical Examination

To provide the patients with the most comfortable and safe healthcare services, since 1999 we have set up the Department of Medical Imaging, the Department of Radiation-Oncology, the Department of Hematology, the Department of Nuclear Medicine, and the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Center. The hospital continues to install the needed high-tech medical and healthcare instruments. We have linear accelerators, magnetic-resonance imaging, excimer laser, gamma camera, and patella joint scope and a cryo-tissue cutting unit, Mammotome breast biopsy system, digital mammography system, direct-digital fan-beam bone densitometer. The Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment of South Area at CYCH was passed by the Department of Health in 2001. In 2004, set-up the PACS system （ Pictures Archive ＆ Communicating System ） . In 2005, The Laboratory Medicine awarded approved by the Chinese National Laboratory Accreditation. In 2006, we install PET-CT install PET-CT.

Emergency Department

The Emergency Department is the largest ER center in Yunlin – Chiayi area. We have 22 visiting doctors in emergency medicine and 41 beds.

The Emergency Department whose service motto is “ safe, comfortable, privacy,” is divided functionally into the active care area, treatment area, emergency area for children, the observation room, diagnostic medical imaging area, the obstetrics & gynecology check-up room, a room for interview and social consultation, and a meeting room. We have portable x-ray and ultrasonic imaging instruments, and a whole body computer tomography (CT scanner). The care and check-up in the active care area is within reach to minimize the movement of patients at risk.

We conduct the related educational and training courses and programs about the necessary emergency care for our colleagues, EMT （ Emergency Medical Technician ） and the local fire fighters. We also installed the Emergency Network with other hospitals and government agencies, In addition, training the doctors for the emergency medicine - all these are our responsibilities.

Pharmacy

The department has six sections, which are: the clinical pharmacy, the outpatient pharmacy, the inpatient pharmacy, the emergency pharmacy, pharmaceutical, and the stock room. To provide the patients with the correct drug information and dosage.

we set-up the computerized networking recognition system using color-coding and Chinese web interface for all medical personals.

The outpatient pharmacy provides TPN for Home Care and drug prescription make-up in chemotherapy cancer treatment. The emergency pharmacy provides the around the clock prescription preparation. The inpatient pharmacy is equipped with Unit Dose Delivery System （ UDDS ） computerization and the computerized medication packaging operation. The clinical pharmacists get involved with the ward rounds of the physicians and the case seminars; and perform blood drug content tests, the inpatients drug-usage consulting, TPN and chemical therapy drug prescription preparation for cancer patients.

In order to protect and promote safe medicine usage on patients, this hospital has set up medical command system and management for dangerous drug usage. The system has included management and procedural code of conducts which aims to prevent medicine misuse and negligence. For the management of patients medical treatment safety, managing patients medical allergic history, not only would required filling in medical history report card, but also during treatment a doctors initiative in inquiring about patients allergic history would ensures patients record be updated on the computer. Then the record would appear on the front-page of the medical history for that particular patient and be used to notify the pharmaceutical ward allowing pharmacist to complete filling out the medical history and delivering correct prescription.

Nursing Services

We installed the “ DART focus nursing method” and patient-oriented nursing care, which emphasizes the nurses full-responsibility in patient care.

We have nursing educational training programs and are continuously updating related knowledge and skills. The juniors are asked to attend actively three days of pre-clinical course, and hence mentoring by senior staff at the bedsides with related special seminars for four weeks. In the on-job training, we annually have each kind of nursing specialized professional training such as the nursing management training, the intensive care nursing, and emergency nursing. All nursing units have their own teaching activities; our Education Committee schedules seminars on quality management and related professional topics. Nursing personals are also encouraged and arrangements made to attend special training and seminars in other hospitals.