Changhua Healthcare Quality & Safety

News Highlights

• 2009-02-02 09:00 Because we are busy from now until Chinese New Year preparing yearbooks for the past year and upgrading our website, we have not scheduled any classes during this period. We are reviewing the successes and failures from 2008, and hope that this will lead to even better things in 2009. Rest now, and expect new things after the New Year!
• 2009-02-03 09:00 Yearbooks for Quality Control Circles, Patient Satisfaction, and Employee Satisfaction have been sent to the publishers. As in previous years, the contents include results from hospitals in the CCH league, and the publications will make a fine addition to your preparation for hospital accreditation.
• 2009-02-03 09:00 We have just come to the close of a difficult, but successful, first year of partnership with the Pingdong Christian Hospital concerning their patient satisfaction surveys. The initial yearbook has just been completed, and is now in the hands of the publisher. Patient satisfaction will now become a regular item, and in 2009 we will cooperate in setting up an employee satisfaction survey system.
• 2009-02-13 12:00 A summit conference in Pingdong for hospitals leaders, to get them up to speed on recent developments in hospital management, especially in regards to safety. Also to advise them on how to handle the reports they will now be receiving from departmental chiefs who have undergone training in risk management and RCA.
• 2009-02-15 09:00 Continue the next semester of our Asia University Masters Program, focusing on risk management. Beginning with this semester, the Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology will also send students to attend our courses.

"Dr Lan"
2008-03-25 11:11

First Term of Service

(p.48) What was to be the next step? Knowing the missionary zest of one who had influenced him in adolescence now a professor in the Medical School—Dr. Hung Barbour, David went to consult him. Dr. Barbour’s father, Robert Barbour, had some years earlier temporarily left the family seat of Bonskeid, near Pitlochry, and had gone into the cotton industry in Liverpool. There he became a rich man and also a devoted member of the Presbyterian Church of England, with an ardent bias for overseas missions, focused especially of Formosa. His elder son, Robert, had entered the ministry but had died an untimely death of tuberculosis. In his will he had left a large sum of money the interest of which was to be used for the salary of a medical missionary to Formosa. A very fine portrait of him hung in the chapel of the Changhua hospital for nearly fifty years.     [More]

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