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The first and only medical complex in Korea, Incheon Sejong Hospital was selected as one of the top 100 hospitals in Korea for the third consecutive year. With this, Incheon Sejong Hospital once again proved to be the best general hospital in Korea, and in particular, it has solidified its position as the top private general hospital for the third consecutive year.
Considering that most of the top-ranked hospitals are large and have generous facility investments, it is noteworthy that private general hospitals achieved top-tier results at the same time.
Jin-Sik Park, chairman of Incheon Sejong Hospital, said, “We are delighted our hospital has proven its potential as a general hospital and continues to grow every year. We continue to create an environment where were people are comfortable and are provided the best treatment possible.”
Incheon Sejong Hospital receives excellent results every year on its adequacy and patient experience evaluations and is well-respected across the nation. The hospital is at the forefront of treating infectious diseases, operating beds for severely ill patients and urgent treatment.
Top surgeon headed to Incheon Sejong Hospital
Incheon Sejong Hospital is pleased to announce that Dr. Lee Young-tak, a prestigious surgeon in the thoracic surgery field, will begin providing care at its facility in March 2022.
Lee graduated from School of Medicine, Seoul National University in 1981 and worked at Sejong Hospital as deputy manager and manager of the cardiothoracic surgery department from 1989 to 2001. After that, he served as professor at the department of cardiothoracic surgery, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University and retired in February 2020. He served as deputy head of the cardiovascular center at Samsung Seoul Hospital from 2003 to 2005 and head of the cardiovascular center from 2009 and 2011.
Dr. Lee successfully conducted off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting, where the operation is conducted in heart-beating condition without artificial cardio-pulmonary bypass, for the first time in Korea in 1996. Since then, he has performed about 400 coronary artery bypass grafts every year, accounting for the majority of coronary artery bypass grafting surgeries in Korea. He also was the first to use the emergency bypass system (EBS) in Korea in 2003.
In 2012, Dr. Lee and college professors conducted left ventricular assist device insertion for the first time in Korea. In 2015, he successfully transplanted the 3rd generation artificial heart into a patient with terminal stage of heart failure.
“I’d like to concentrate on my major field of coronary artery bypass grafting to treat patients with heart disease,” Lee said. “If conditions are met, I’d like to conduct heart assist device insertion more actively for patients with terminal stage of heart failure.”
