Message from the Hospital Director



Message from the Hospital Director

Nagasaki University Hospital Director
Nakao Kazuhiko

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March 1983: Nagasaki University School of Medicine
March 2009: Nagasaki University Hospital of Medicine and Dentistry
      Director of Department of Gastroenterology
April 2019: Nagasaki University
      Director (Hospital Representative), Head of Hospital
April 2021: Executive Officer (Hospital Representative), Head of Hospital
      Specialties in internal medicine and liver disease
Nagasaki University Hospital Director Nakao Kazuhiko

These are our challenges!

 Since recently being appointed as the Head of the Hospital, I feel the weight of this responsibility every day.
 After graduating from the Nagasaki University School of Medicine in 1983, I started working as a medical intern at this hospital, majored in liver disease, and have been Director of the Department of Gastroenterology since 2009.
 As you know, Nagasaki University Hospital has the longest history of any western-style hospital operating in Japan, and is the only university hospital that has been destroyed by bombing and reconstructed. Although it has encountered many difficulties over its long history, Nagasaki University Hospital has always taken on bold challenges to develop medical personnel while constantly considering the well-being of its patients.
 I would like to follow in the footsteps of my predecessors and, presumptuous as it may be, would like to set three goals to strive for.

Implementing holistic medical care and striving for advanced, leading-edge treatment. (Medical treatment)

 The progress of modern medicine is remarkable, and medical treatment methods such as robotic surgery, regenerative medicine, and medical treatment using artificial intelligence (AI), which I could not have even imagined when I became a physician, have become reality. Therapeutic medication has also made great advances, and we are now in an age where new drugs allow us to anticipate complete recovery from diseases that were previously said to be incurable.
 However, the increasing degree of specialization in medical care sometimes leads to biases in treatment of “focusing on the disease rather than the patient.” All of our staff will work together to practice advanced, leading-edge treatment while constantly striving to provide holistic medical care that takes all patients into consideration.

Training young medical professionals and making attempts toward unique clinical research. (Education and research)

 It is the mission of a university hospital as an educational institution to train medical professionals such as doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, registered dietitians, and technical staff to support community medical care. Fortunately, thanks to the understanding of patients and educational collaborations between local medical institutions and universities, there is a higher number of young medical professionals in Nagasaki than in other prefectures. I would like to maintain this momentum by further strengthening the activities of the Shin-Narutakijuku (Nagasaki Prefecture Physician Clinical Training Council) and training as many young and talented medical professionals as possible.
 Up to this point, advanced medical care has been achieved through the accumulation of results from diverse and persistent research. Our hospital also plans and carries out unique clinical research, aiming to become a core of clinical research in Japan by producing results that can contribute to medical progress.

The challenge of becoming an active, energetic hospital. (Collaboration)

 In order to provide advanced medical care in an efficient and safe manner, it is important for all personnel to work together while upholding the professional view of “taking a personal role in supporting the university hospital.” Creating an environment in which people can freely express and discuss their own ideas and constructive opinions, regardless of job type or position, will lead to innovation (reform) for us. I would like to aim for us to become a free-spirited university hospital with an active and energetic atmosphere. In addition, it is my wish for our dynamic facility to strengthen its cooperation with medical associations and local medical institutions, and do everything it can to provide the best medical care to patients.

 I am not sure how helpful I can be, but I will do my best to meet your expectations and answer the needs of regional medical institutions by taking on the above three challenges.

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Basic Principles・Basic Policy

Basic Principles

Nagasaki University Hospital provides the highest level of heal thcare, develops outstanding healthcare professionals with strong human values, and contributes to the creation and development of new advances in healthcare.

Basic Policy

  1. Build trust between patients and healthcare workers and perform healthcare with a priority on human values.
  2. Perform medical and dental education and training based on ethics and science.
  3. Advance world-class healthcare through research.
  4. Contribute to the enhancement of island and regional healthcare systems.
  5. Advance international cooperation in healthcare.
  6. Advance and maintain a workplace environment that facilitates work performance and values.
  7. Reinforce rational and sound hospital management.

April 2021

Patient Rights and Obligations

Healthcare is a cooperative effort based on a relationship of trust between patients and healthcare workers. We honor the rights of the patient and ask that the patient observe the patient obligations.

《Patient Rights》

  1. The right to receive provision of safe, quality healthcare that respects the dignity of the individual and is free from discrimination of any form. Right to healthcare
  2. The right to receive an explanation of the medical condition, diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic methods in readily understandable terms. Right to know
  3. The right to decide, based on one’s own volition and acceptable explanation, on implementation of the thera peutic strategy proposed by the healthcare worker. Right to self-determination
  4. The right to protection of one’s privacy. Right to privacy
  5. The right to consult other medical institution. Right to second opinion

《Patient Obligations》

  1. Provision of information on one’s own health as accurately a s possible t o the healthcare worker. Obligation to provide information
  2. Observance of social rules and conventions, hospital rules, and hospital staff instructions to enable the delivery of appropriate healthcare to all patients. Obligation to cooperate with healthcare provision
  3. Prompt payment of healthcare bills to enable continued provision of appropriate healthcare. Obligation to remunerate for healthcare
  4. Cooperation, as much as possible, for clinical education and training in accordance with the role of a university hospital in the development of healthcare professionals. Obligation to cooperate in the development of healthcare professionals
  5. Cooperation, as much as possible, for clinical research in accordance with the provision of high-level healthcare. Obligation to cooperate with clinical research
  6. Duty for medical cooperation: Obligation to cooperate in medical collaborations with other medical institutions. Obligation to cooperate in medical collaborations

Healthcare Service Policy

  1. Provide trustworthy, quality healthcare in a well-equipped hospital environment.
  2. Work for the development and advancement of high-level, leadi ng-edge healthcare and provide the highest level of healthcare.
  3. Work in close collaboration with regional medical institution s and serve as a hospital that is open to society.

All of our personnel stand united in continuously improving our quality management system (QMS) for sound hospital operation and management to achieve these objectives.

History

September 1861.

Yojyosho (sanatorium) was established at Mt.Nagasaki Koshimagoh Inaridake.

Sketch of Yojyosho.
Hospital opened on September 20, 1861, owned by the Nagasaki University Economics Library
Group photograph with students
In the front row, Pompe (J.L.C. Pompe van Meerdervoort) is sitting on the right and Ryojun Matsumoto is sitting on the left, with students standing in the back row (owned by the Nagasaki University Economics Library).
The first western-style hospital (yojosho) in Japan
April 1865. Yojyosho was renamed Seitokukan School of Medicine.
November 1868. Seitokukan School of Medicine was renamed Nagasaki City School of Medicine.
August 1869. Nagasaki City School of Medicine was renamed Nagasaki Prefectural School of Medicine.
December 1871. The Ministry of Education held jurisdiction over Nagasaki Prefectural School of Medicine and changed its name to Nagasaki Prefectural Hospital and National Nagasaki Medical School.
November 1874. The educational function of Nagasaki Prefectural Hospital and National Nagasaki Medical School was discontinued whereas The hospital function was transferred to the branch hospital.
April 1875. The branch hospital was renamed Nagasaki Hospital. (owned by Nagasaki Prefecture)
August 1887. Nagasaki Hospital was renamed Nagasaki Prefectural Nagasaki Hospital as medical schools were all transferred to the Japanese government.
April 1902. Nagasaki Prefectural Nagasaki Hospital was relocated to its present location.
October 1903. Nagasaki Prefectural Nagasaki Hospital Training School for Nurses was established.
April 1922. Nagasaki Prefectural Nagasaki Hospital was renamed Hospital of Nagasaki Specialized School of Medicine.
August 1923. Hospital of Nagasaki Specialized School of Medicine was renamed Nagasaki Medical College.
August 1945.

Nagasaki Medical College was destroyed by the atomic bomb.

Nagasaki Medical College Hospital immediately after the atomic bomb attack
(Photograph restored by Armed Forces Institute of Pathology)
After the establishment of the hospital, the name and jurisdiction of the facility changed many times, and on August 9, 1945, it was struck by an atomic bomb and devastated, killing 898 students and staff members. It has the tragic history of being the only medical school in the world to have suffered destruction by an atomic bomb.
May 1949.

Nagasaki Medical College Hospital was renamed Nagasaki University Hospital of the School of Medicine, along with the revision of the National School Establishment Law.

Overall view of the School of Medicine and its affiliated hospital (1958)
Entrance to affiliated hospital (1965)
April 1982.

Nagasaki University Hospital of the School of Dentistry was set up.

Overall view of the School of Medicine University Hospital (1995)
October 2003. Nagasaki University Hospital of the School of Medicine and Nagasaki University Hospital of the School of Dentistry were merged to create Nagasaki University Hospital of Medicine and Dentistry.
April 2009.

The University Hospital of Medicine and Dentistry c hanged its status as a hospital affiliated with the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and came under direct control of the University, which renamed it the Nagasaki University Hospital.

Current university hospital

Organization

 

Organizational Chart

 

Board Members

 

Number of Hospital Staff

Classification Occupation Full-time Institute of Biomedical Sciences /
Atomic Bomb Disease Institute / Institute of Tropical Medicine
Part-time Total
Faculty Staf Professor 17 40 0 57
Associate Professor 17 31 0 48
Senior Assistant Professor 56 5 0 61
Assistant Professor 165 56 0 221
Research Associate 58 0 0 58
Part-time doctor Medical Staff 0 0 227 227
Senior resident 0 0 74 74
Junior resident 0 0 54 54
Technical staff Pharmacist 55 0 0 55
Nutritionist 14 0 2 16
Nursing staff 987 0 5 992
Other 218 0 10 228
Technical staff Technical staff 22 0 90 112
Administrative Staff Administrative Staff 118 0 258 376
  Total 1,727 132 720 2,579
2023.4.1
 

Number of beds

Number of sickbeds by type
General sickbeds 827
Ordinary rooms 541
Special rooms 102
Critical-care units 65
Aseptic treatment rooms* 42
RI treatment rooms 2
ICU(Intensive Care Unit) 20
MFICU(Maternal Fetal Intensive Care Unit) 6
NICU(Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) 12
GCU (Growing Care Unit) 12
SCU(Stroke Care Unit) 6
Acute And Critical Care Center 19
Psychiatric sickbeds 39
Tuberculosis beds 6
Infectious disease beds 2
Total 874
2019.11.1
*Excluding 6 beds which overlap with critical-care units