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‧Origin History
‧Preface of Chairman Board
‧Admonishment and Expection
‧Tracks of Growth

Origin History

Chairman's Father
Mr. Chang-Gung Wang

Founder
Mr. Yung-Ching Wang

In the 1970's, Taiwan enjoyed a prospering economy and a rapidly rising living standard. However, despite this increase in the country's wealth, the quality of Taiwan's medical services and the advancement of technologies still lagged significantly behind. Not only were there limited institutions that offered training to the local medical graduate students, those who went abroad for further training also found themselves unable to put to use their acquired skills and knowledge. Thus, the demand for medical services in Taiwan remained unmet.

In pursuit to provide the people of Taiwan with high quality healthcare, Formosa Plastic Group Chairman Yung-Ching Wang and President Yung-Tsai Wang established Chang Gung Memorial.Hospital (CGMH) in 1976 in memory of their father,Mr.Chang-Gung Wang. During the early periods of its establishment, CGMH had played the role as a mediating center that introduced modern medical knowledge and technologies from around the world to Taiwan, now it aspires tobecome a world class medical center. Our physicians, nursing staffs and medical allies work closely as a team to provide our patients with complete physical, psychological and social care.

Moreover, in order to meet the people's growing demands for medical services, our hospitals were built in Keelung and Kaohsiung following those in Taipei & Linkou. Also, Chang-Gung Institute of Nursing and Chang-Gung University were established. The University and the Hospital work effectively together by complementing each other and its collaboration facilitates both basic research and clinical medicine.

Preface of Chairman Board

	Chairman Mr. Yung-Tsai Wang	It has been more than 35years since the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital was established in 1976. During this period, the hospital has gradually grown in terms of facilities and the number of patients, and the quality of services provided
	has also improved to meet international standards.To go from scratch to a world-class teaching hospital in 20 short years is an outstanding achievement. In managing CGMH, we have always been patient-oriented, putting the needs of our patients as our top concerns. By providing better services with lower costs, we have gained confidence from our patients. Today, while CGMH has 9000 beds and serves 28000 out-patients a day island-wide, we are still constantly striving to improve ourselves in services, teaching and research.

We are undergoing research and reformation of traditional Chinese Medicine, aiming at its integration into modern medicine and furthermore, we are building a rehabilitation hospital for chronic disease, and a retirement home for the elder lies to provide all-round healthcare services. Our goal is not only to keep up with, but to excel the most advanced medical centers of the world.

Admonishment and Expection

		Chairman of the Steering Committee Mr. Yu-Ray Chen,

		To take thorough care of our staff, to provide The best quality of medical service; to restructure and to establish specialty centers; and to commit ourselves to environmental protection and community service are important goals of the hospital. CGMH can create miracles in medical service, teaching and research in the new millennium.

		Superintendent of North Region Mr. Wen-Neng Weng,

		Superintendent of Kaohsiung Branch Mr. Chao-Long Chen,
		Chao-Long Chen, M.D. Director, Liver Transplant Program Superintendent, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering

		Professor Chao-Long Chen is a pioneer liver transplant surgeon who in 1984 performed the first successful liver transplantation in Asia. He is a graduate of the Kaohsiung Medical University and did his surgery training at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. He later obtained fellowship training in liver transplantation with renowned Prof. Thomas Starzl at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is a recipient of various honors and distinctions, both locally and internationally. He became Professor of Surgery in 1993 and subsequently had been bestowed the title of Honorary Professor by several international universities. In 1994, he performed the first living donor liver transplantation in Taiwan. He did the first split liver transplantation in Asia in 1997. He started the adult living donor liver transplantation in Taiwan in 1999. Further, he performed the first dual graft living donor liver transplantation in Taiwan in 2002. He became superintendent of the Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in 2003. He has published more than 300 scientific articles and has lectured in more than 200 international congresses, and honorary and visiting professorships. In 2007, he was elected as Academician of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Engineering. He remains director of one of the leading centers in liver transplantation in Asia. Through dedicated, sophisticated, humanistic, and integrated patientcentered services that transcend specialist-oriented medicine to achieve unsurpassed excellence in health care.

		Superintendent of Keelung Branch Mr. Wen Jin Cherng,

		To be forever better.

		Superintendent of Taoyuan Branch Mis. May-Kuen Wong,

		Promote the ideal health care facilities for people in lifetime with humanity and expertise.

		Superintendent of Chiayi Branch Mr. Ying-Huang Tsai,

		Superintendent of Yunlin Branch Mr. Tung-Jung Huang,

		Yunlin branch was established to meet the enthusiastic expectation and ardent desire of local people in Yunlin. Though located at a remote barren seaside Taiwan, it was designed to a full scale of a general hospital, to provide top quality of medical services for the people in the area with scarce medical resource. As a solid exemplification of Corporate Social Responsibility, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital would make every effort, with services excelling the world, to meet the pertinent medical demands deep in the local society, neglecting the cost. The features characterizing Yunlin branch will be the axes of community medicine, health promotion, and long-term medical care, standing out of the comprehensive services, to make a shining oasis of health care in the area.