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UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Philosophy
Holistic Medicine Aiming to Achieve
Confidence and Satisfaction
Basic Policies
Provide patient-oriented medical care
Aim for providing confidence, relief and satisfaction
Provide highly-advanced medical care with kind hospitality
Aim for a community-based university hospital
Educate medical professionals
to excel at a global
level
Aim for sound hospital management
Established
Opened
Beds
Building Land Area
Total Floor Space
April 1, 1978
October 1, 1978
614
17,789m
2
60,497m
2
Training of Highly Qualified Medical Professionals
Attracting more resident-physicians in the Shiga area through various effective and
systematic training programs
The Clinical Medical Education Center provides complete training programs for residents as well as
professionals.
Educating specialized medical professionals
Training professionals on medical innovations through the “Core Life-long Advanced Specialist
Training Program”
Promoting specialized qualifications for co-medical staff and training programs for outside
co-medical staff
Promoted by a new evaluation system for such qualifications
Clinical
Activities
Promoting advanced, specialized cardiovascular medical and surgical treatment
Providing advanced interventional treatment for patients with coronary artery disease and up-to-
date medical care for those with serious arrhythmia
Providing advanced and specialized cardiovascular surgery such as off-pump coronary artery
bypass grafting
Promoting advanced cancer treatment
Providing various and unique options for advanced cancer treatment such as permanent prostate
brachytherapy, vaccine therapy with cancer peptides or dendritic cells, and hyperthermia, as the
region’s central hospital for advanced cancer treatment
Supporting the activities of the cancer saloon “Yurari” and the cancer board
Promoting physician-initiated clinical trials for advanced medicine—Center for Clinical
Research and Advanced Medicine
Promoting team-based medical care in such area as nutrition support team
infection
control team
palliative medicine
and bedsore and stoma care
Providing Highly Qualified Medical Treatment
Promoting local medical care in the Higashi-Ohmi area through the re-activation plan for
regional medical care
Promoting various regional co-operative systems through the activities of the Patient
Support Center and the obstetric open-bed system
Promoting standardization of cancer treatment as the regional central hospital in the
Higashi-Ohmi area
Contributing to local medical care by strengthening the perinatal care and emergency
medical care systems
Contributing to Local Medical Care