Dr. Lin Zong-Xi to Lead Yi Jen Hospital into New Era

Era Min-Sheng Health Care System’s Yi Jen Hospital will celebrate its 12th anniversary this year by introducing a new executive: Dr। Lin Zong-Xi। He will serve as both hospital superintendent and chairman, in addition to maintaining his role as VP of the overall sytem। 　

Dr। Lin Zong-Xi has worked for the Min-Sheng Health Care System for 30 years and brings a wealth of experience to his new role। He was previously superintendent of Jin Shan Hospital and the general manager of Min-Sheng medical control। Dr। Lin stated that the MS health Care System is getting stronger every day with its emphasis on patient centered medicine। He added that his goal is to provide even better medical serviceस्य्स्तेम।Chairman Yang Min-Sheng said that under the guidance of Lin, Yi Jen Hospital will develop a new atmosphere। He also said that the hospital already has a strong foundation, but the addition of Dr. Lin will make the group even stronger and enable it to better serve the greater Yang Mei area.

High cost of healthcare at home brings American to Taiwan for bilateral knee surgery

Driven by the high cost of healthcare in the U.S, a patient recently travelled to Taiwan’s Min-Sheng Hospital for total knee replacement surgery, and left enthusiastic about the care and service he received.

Ken, who owns and operates a small landscaping business in Clearwater Florida, had been suffering from bad knees for nearly nine years. When the pain became such that it impaired his ability to work and earn a living, he couldn’t turn away from the only option left to him: undergo surgery and replace his ailing knees with artificial ones.

Though common and readily available in America, knee replacement surgery is also costly. In Ken’s case, a bilateral knee replacement, the cost can easily amount to over $ 70.000 (NT +/- 2.500.000). Unfortunately, like almost 50 million Americans, Ken doesn’t have medical insurance, and would be left to pay the bill by himself. As such, he belongs to that rapidly expanding category of Americans who are “too rich” to qualify for Medicare or Medicaid, but whose incomes aren’t sufficient to pay for expensive private medical insurance.

Desperately needing a treatment that he couldn’t afford, Ken decided to search for a solution outside of the United States. Having heard of Medical Travel, where people travel abroad in search of treatments that they can’t find or pay for at home, Ken used the Internet to find viable options for his case. He was soon a little overwhelmed by the number of hospitals and medical travel facilitators that offer their services on-line. Therefore, he decided to focus only on hospitals meeting international safety and quality standards, namely those that are JCI accredited.

Ken sent queries to hospitals in nearly half a dozen countries ( Costa Rica, Columbia, Spain, Singapore) including Min-Sheng Hospital in Taoyuan, Taiwan. The International Healthcare department (IHC) at Min-Sheng, that was specifically created to deal with cases like these, handled his request from start to finish.

Ken was extremely impressed by the professionalism demonstrated by the staff at Min-Sheng, and grateful for the time spent on his case. So when the time came to decide on a destination for his knee replacements, he didn’t hesitate, and chose Min-Sheng Hospital. The date for the surgery was set, and his trip to Taiwan organized.

On February 1st, Ken was met at Taoyuan International Airport by a Min-Sheng IHC staff and taken to a hotel close to the hospital. Mr. H. had requested to do some sight-seeing before his admission at the hospital, so he took part in a tour of Northern Taiwan also organized for him by the IHC. A few days later, Ken. H was admitted to the hospital and completed a series of tests before his surgery.

Although people in Taiwan are usually discharged within a week of knee replacement surgery, Ken had been told that for safety reasons, he had to wait at least three weeks before flying, and since he came to Taiwan alone, he had agreed to stay under nursing care at the hospital until his departure. His comfortable private room became his temporary new “home” and the staff at Min-Sheng his “family”. As can be expected, his stay wasn’t always a bed of roses, and his mood fluctuated, but overall Ken is extremely satisfied with the care he received in Taiwan and would recommend Min-Sheng Hospital to anyone in his situation.

Language wasn’t really a problem thanks to the effort put in by the nurses, and the multi-lingual staff at the IHC. The main problem was probably boredom. Watching TV, talking to the staff, physical therapy, reading and sitting in the hospital’s garden help to kill the time, but being confined to a hospital, with limited mobility and especially without the company of loved ones is tough on everyone, and particularly on someone who travelled half way around the world for treatment.

“Coming to Taiwan’s Min-Sheng Hospital was a no-brainer”, says Ken, “I got first class care and service for a fraction of the price I would have paid in the U.S”.
Ken not only left Taiwan with new knees and the promise of a better future, he also made a lot of new friends here.

Min-Sheng and RIEI Company of Japan Sign MOU

On January 13, 2009, Min-Sheng Health Care System’s CEO Dr. Fred Yang and a co-founder of Japan’s RIEI Company, Mr. Kabasawa, jointly signed an MOU for the exchange of medical and elderly care. The agreement will also encourage elderly Japanese to visit Taiwan for recreational purposes, as well as medical travel.

RIEI Company was established in 1980 and for nearly 30 years has been engaged with the Ministry of Health and Welfare, long term recreational travel and the therapy services business। In Japan, RIEI already has 332 resident management service departments and 16 elder care centers.

The first step for the Min-Sheng Health Care System will be integrating medicine with marketing tourism. In the future, the model will continue to be extended to the Asia-Pacific region to build health care networks, with an eye on more expansion of system development, international tourism and the upgrade of eldercare facilities.

Related News Clips:
1. http://www.riei.co.jp/company/press.html
2. RIEI Co., Ltd. website.：http://www.riei.co.jp/eng/outline/e_index.html

Min-Sheng Health Care System Continues China Expansion

Min-Sheng Health Care System’s mainland China plans continue to progress after the recent integration of Hunan’s Wang Wang Hospital and Hainan’s Second People’s Hospital। Also, Guangdong Province’s Dongguan Guanghua Hospital has recently signed an agreement to build a medical service center for Taiwanese businessmen living in the area, establishing a stronghold in China’s Pearl River Delta for Min-Sheng.

Dongguang Guanghua Hospital is located in Dongguang City, which has a high number of Taiwanese businesspeople living there। It is a 500 bed hospital that was established through a joint venture by locals and Taiwanese business people. It is also the teaching hospital of the Tong Ji School of Medicine. Min-Sheng plans to send doctors from Taiwan to Guanghua Hospital on a monthly basis in order to provide care for the Taiwanese residing in Dongguan.

Min-Sheng’s executive vice president, Professor Zhang Yangquan, pointed out that the cooperation between China and Taiwan’s resident physicians to support the mainland’s first privately run hospital will bring closer cooperation between the two sides. He added that in the future, the relationship will develop a cross-strait model for private hospital cooperation and Min-Sheng will lead Taiwan in exporting its hospital management system to the mainland.

Min-Sheng Entering into a New Era of Leadership

Min-Sheng is entering into a new era of operations management। Professor Zhang Yang-Quan will officially become the system’s executive vice president, as well as the superintendent of Min-Sheng General Hospital. Current CEO Dr. Fred Yang stated that he had accomplished everything that he set out to do as superintendent and that it was now time for him to set his sights on other goals, allowing for Professor Zhang to step in as the new superintendent.

Professor Zhang is an internationally renowned neurological medical authority, former professor at National Taiwan University School of Medicine and former director of the National Taiwan University Hospital Department of Neurology। Additionally, he assisted Min-Sheng Hospital three years ago in obtaining Taiwan’s first JCI accreditation.

Professor Zhang stated that he intends to vertically and horizontally develop Ming-Sheng Health Care System’s five branch hospitals and three care centers। In addition to implementing sound, sustainable business development, Zhang stated that the future direction of the organization will move toward the integration of the branch hospitals with every kind of professional system network, including personnel and resource sharing in order to enhance the quality of medical care.

Dr. Yang will now become the deputy general manager of the Asia Pacific Health Company where he will focus his efforts on setting up the firm’s hospital chain management platform.
Chairman Yang Min-Sheng stated that the future will bring the institutionalization of the professional management team into the operation. He also added that he was looking forward not only to Min-Sheng’s quality of medical care becoming the benchmark in Taiwan’s medical community, but also seeing its operations management become a model for the industry as well!

Min-Sheng Health Care System's Huayang Hospital Has Completed New System Hospital Accreditation

On August 1st, 2008 Min-Sheng Health Care System took over Huayang General Hospital in Chungli, Taiwan. Under the leadership of Superintendent Dr. Chen Ching-Yuan, Huayang Hospital integrated into the Min-Sheng system within two months. At the same time, he assured the hospital's smooth acceptance of the new system and the passage of hospital accreditation. Dr. Chen stated that Huayang Hospital's being ready to complete the task in a very short period was, apart from the efforts of his associates, proof of the thoroughness and success of Min-Sheng Health Care System's hospital management platform. He added that the hospital will provide the people with high quality health care and service, and promote high standards of care in south Taoyuan. With the integration of Huayang Hospital into the Min-Sheng system, the medical team will come to include heart medicine physician Dr. Qiu Ding-Yu, Bariatric surgeon Dr. Li Wei-Jie, chest medicine physician Dr. Ye Bu-Sheng, heart medicine specialist Dr. Sun, and ophthalmologist Dr. Lai Cheng-Ting. What's more, members of the Huayang orthopedic team have been invited to join the Southern Taoyuan Orthopedic Center, which will greatly benefit local orthopedic patients. Vice President Liu Qi-Tian, who is responsible for the south Taoyuan market, said that constant participation and evaluation drive Min-Sheng's pursuit of high quality health care. He added that the system continues to lead the way in "patient centered" service by providing high quality humanized care.

Min-Sheng CEO Yang Speaks at D.C. Consumer Health Conference

Missioncare Health Care System CEO Fred Yang was recently invited to speak at the Consumer Health World Forum in Washington, D।C. His speech was entitled "The internationalization of Innovation Driven Health Care".

Forum attendees included major U.S. insurance companies, large employers and international medical industry professionals. The importance of the seminar was highlighted by the fact that two U.S. senators and the president of the American Medical Association also spoke at the event.
CEO Yang stated that the purpose of the trip wasn't so much to introduce Min-Sheng's health care system to the U।S., but to better introduce Taiwan's medical industry. He pointed out that Taiwan's electronics and information technology products are world famous, of course owing to the fact there are talented professionals working in both of those industries, but, he added, the most talented people in Taiwan attend medical school. He concluded that in Taiwan, the most talented work in patient services!

CEO Yang shared with the audience the many advantages that led to the creation of the Taiwanese international service miracle: geographical advantage, language advantages, a sophisticated IT environment, and human resources advantages। Finally, he stressed the importance of quality talent in Taiwan.

Following the seminar, CEO Yang was invited to deliver another speech to the National Taiwan University alumni in North America. CEO Yang pointed out that Min-Sheng's internationalization efforts have gradually come to fruition. Additionally, he added that Taiwan's medical industry can be competitive in the international arena and that Min-Sheng will continue to play the role of international medical pioneer in the future.