The King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital

Summary

The King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital is a leading tertiary care hospital in Thailand- operated by the Thai Red Cross Society. They offer international standards medical facilities and a remarkable quality of healthcare services in various specialty departments. They are regarded as a center of practical and academic excellence because they serve as the teaching and training institute for both a medical university and a nursing college. The largest hospital in Thailand has well-renowned specialty medical centers, including a heart disease center, Queen Sirikit center for breast cancer, an emerging medical disease center, and a critical nephrology center. Moreover, being the largest, they cater to thousands of outpatients and inpatients each day.

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Details

General Outlook

• The King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in Thailand.
• It is a tertiary care and general public hospital that is operated by the Thai Red Cross Society.
• They serve as the training and teaching hospital for the Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University and the Thai Red Cross College of Nursing. So, they can be regarded as a center of academic and practical excellence in many fields.
• They are responsible for providing medical services, restoring patients’ physical competency, and health promotion.
• Furthermore, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital is continually making quality improvements in medical services, creating innovations in the medical field, and supporting research to meet the international quality standards.

Fundaments

• The leading hospital of Thailand was built on King Vajravudh’s initiative. Firstly, he named Red Cross Hospital and later on named King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital after his father's name. The opening ceremony was held on 30 May 1914.
• The King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital being the largest one serves thousands of outpatient per day and consists of about 1,433 beds for in-patient.
• They have advanced and modern pieces of equipment that provide diagnostic services for timely treatment. For cardiovascular disease, they have Echocardiology both 2D or 3D imaging and Cardiac MRI.
• Queen Sirikit Center for Breast Cancer provides top-notch service effectively and quickly.
• The Elderly Care Department also plays its role in providing non-stop service in both treatment and prevention of symptoms like sleep problems, falls, and vision or hearing problems.
• Moreover, they have donation centers for donating bodies for studies, body organs, blood, and eyes.

Center of Excellence for Foreigners

The largest King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital has many medical centers that are specialized for treatments for local as well as a tourist/international patients;

• Heart Disease Center
• HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Center Fixed Deformities on the Face and Skull
• Infectious Disease Medicine
• Queen Sirikit Center for Breast Cancer
• Nose and Sinus Endoscopic Surgery Center
• Emerging Medical Disease Center
• Neuroscience Center
• Sleep Medicine Center
• Medical Organ Transplant Center
• Medicine in Diabetes, Hormone, and Metabolic Disease
• Critical Nephrology Center
• Medical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Center

Provision of Facilities for Foreigners

• Different room types are Standard, Deluxe, Studio, Superior, Executive, Junior Suite, and Bhumisiri Suite that include amenities like comfortable bedding, living room, and private bathroom
• Various Religious Places for Foreigners Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and point of worship
• Many restaurants, food courts, stores, and shops that provide various types of food like Thai food, vegetarian foreign food, and Muslim food
• Provide shuttle van service for patients and their relatives
• medical equipment store for wheelchair or walking aids and medicine store for non-prescription medicine
• Internet Service Available
• Sub-office banking including ATM for convenient

Language Spoken

• Thai
• English

Approachability for Foreigners

• The foreigners can get from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Ramathibodi Hospital in 7 ways-Towncar, train, bus, taxi, shuttle, subway, and car. So, the comfortable way is to use a car, Towncar, and taxi. It will be traveling 33 km in 24 minutes by road.

• Many economical as well luxurious hotels with great services like spacious rooms, friendly staff, good facility, healthy food, and convenient transport system are present near the Kind Chulalonhkorn Memorial Hospital-making it a great choice for foreigners.

Proud Achievements

The various Departments of King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital have a list of astonishing yet proud achievements-making it a top-notch hospital in Thailand. Some of the great achievements of a hospital are as follow;

• Discovered the world's first lesion “Angiomyeloproliferative Lesion” caused by the use of stem cells in the treatment of SLE

• Found the world's first tuberculosis-inflamed amniotic sac
• The first Anesthesiology department in Thailand that played role in participating in drafting guidelines for various professional standards of the Medical Council
• Thailand's first microsurgery to replace fingers with toe replacement surgery and  first successful spinal replacement surgery for chronic pain by the Department of Orthopedic
• HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Center is the first and largest referral source in Thailand and Southeast Asia for fixing deformities on the face and skull
• The first and only one in Thailand from 2010 until the present -a training institute for home medical courses International Sleep Medicine Sub-Division and National Sleep Medicine Sub-Division

Awards and Acknowledgment

• The King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital awarded with a world-class gold medal from International Tradefair Ideas-Inventions-New productsiENA 2018
• The Nursing Department received 1st prize in the category of quality exhibition contest “Inner Power, Together We Can” at the 18th Ha National Forum and presented at the event International forum – Quality and Safety in Healthcare in London
• The Emergency Medicine Department received the 5th Thailand Emergency Medicine Award: Advanced Cardiac Life Support from the Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, and was accredited with Postgraduate Medical Education WFME Global Standards for Quality Improvement
• The Department of Medical Records and Statistics received the SILVER AWARD for the service quality improvement with Lean concept
• Outstanding Research Award 2010 and 2012 from the National Research Council in the center of excellence of Genomics and Precision Medicine