Hua Chiew Hospital links with university to upgrade service

This is part of the hospital’s plan to provide affordable treatment to middle-class patients. It has earmarked about Bt300 million for renovations and special wards and to invest in new medical equipment as well as training stuff.
Kobchai Sosothikul, president of Hua Chiew, said yesterday that under the three-year agreement with Mahidol, the hospital would develop training courses for existing personnel, particularly those in fields with high turnover, such as nurses and pharmacists.
Winit Phuapradit, dean of the Mahidol University faculty of medicine’s Ramathibodi Hospital, said government |hospitals were facing staff shortages even though medical and nursing schools across |the Kingdom were producing new graduates every year. |Some nurses decide to move from government hospitals |to privately run facilities, |while others quit for personal reasons or to set up their own clinics.
Kobchai said the initiative was aimed at retaining existing staff by providing long-term career paths that will be developed with Ramathibodi.
In addition, Hua Chiew will |be allowed to transfer its criti-cally ill patients to Ramathibodi for advanced treatment. Ramathibodi will also provide Hua Chiew with technological support.
With all these afforts, we expect to gain more confidence among local people in our reputation after the guaranttee of Hospital Accreditation (HA)in 2006 and 2012, ??by whom?? said Kobchai.
Established in 1938 as a midwifery clinic, Hua Chiew Hospital is in Pom Prap Sattru Phai district, Bangkok. Today the hospital has a 22-storey building with full medical facilities and serves more than 500,000 patients a year.