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Message from our Director

In order to fulfill its obligation as a regional center hospital,
the Fukuyama Medical Center serves as a core medical center in the level 2 medical sphere of the Fukuyama and Fuchu areas. Since 2018 it has been designated a semi-tertiary emergency medical center for adult emergency medicine and provides medical infrastructure as a designated tertiary emergency medical center for obstetrics and a hub for neonatal care for infants. Furthermore, our medical sphere also includes the Hiroshima Prefecture region of Fukuyama, Fuchu, Onomichi, and Mihara, and the western part of Okayama Prefecture adjacent to Ibara and Kasaoka, resulting in a covered population of approximately one million people. We are striving to provide comprehensive regional healthcare as the region’s core medical center, dedicated to healthcare grounded in the local community. In April 2020 we became a nationally designated regional collaborative cancer treatment hub and I intend to further improve the quality of our care.

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Hospital Objectives

1. Continuing and improving high-quality care

The Fukuyama Medical Center has been recognized as a nationally designated regional collaborative cancer treatment hub, a regional perinatal maternal and child medical center, a regional medical support hospital, an AIDS treatment core hospital, and a designated clinical training hospital. In order to take in overseas patients, we are also a registered Japan International Hospital (JIH) recommended by Medical Excellence JAPAN, and accept foreigners. Furthermore we are working on receiving a Japan Medical Services Accreditation for International Patients (JMIP).

2. Expanding the regional perinatal maternal and child medical center

The Fukuyama Medical Center serves as the regional core for perinatal care, and with prefectural subsidies, we completed six MFICUs and one LDR unit in March 2019, and started operating an additional three MFICUs in October 2019 and all six units in March 2020. Along with 12 NICUs and 12 GCUs, we are working hard on fulfilling our role as the regional perinatal maternal and child medical center.

3. Strengthening our acute treatment system

We completed the installation of 5 HCUs in March 2019 and started operating them in April, and we are working on a smoother acute treatment intake system in conjunction with ICU management. We are also engaged in strengthening our acute-phase treatment structures along with our perinatal acute treatment.

4. Creating structures for reforming the way we work

The promotion of work reforms have been touted in the healthcare industry as well as in other fields, and spurred by the necessity to improve the status quo we are working on improving various areas such as designated procedure training for nurses, and reevaluating overtime work and our nightshift system. I intend to strive for further improvements in the quality of healthcare at the Fukuyama Medical Center together with all employees, and to continue to provide healthcare rooted in the local community as the region’s central hub hospital.

Dr. Masaru Inagaki, Director of Fukuyama Medical Center
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