Andong Hospital
Medical tourism & special prize category /
Region-positioned for medical tourism-Gyungbuk
http://www.agh.co.kr
Well-being medical service 'Good morning! Health tour' gains great popularity
Andong Hospital

As member of international medical service committee supervised by Ministry for health, welfare and family affairs and Korean Health Industry Development Institute, Andong Hospital (chief director Gang, bo-yeong) is contributing to advancing medical service industry and promoting medical tourism by attracting foreign patients.

Well-being medical service of new concept, 'Andong Hospital Good Morning Health Tour' developed by this hospital is getting more popular as time goes by as it is a medical tourism product that can take care of health and tourism at the same time. Andong Hospital consists of themes like medical check, tourism and leisure. Compared to those of overseas or metropolitan area, it provides the best medical service with the most economic price. Since 2002 when the concept of medical tourism was quite strange, it has made preparation one by one with ambitious plans.

Entire floor of newly built hospital building is equipped with hotel facility and managed as guest house for medical tour

Andong Hospital has been a leader in local hospital service innovation. Suggested by Chief director Gang, bo-yeong, it decided to assign one whole floor of newly built hospital as medical hotel; a hotel facility in the hospital after a suitability examination.

This medical tourism package connected with excellent medical facility in harmony with Nakdong river, high-quality medical check, rich cultural heritage of Andong that is called a museum without roof, Nakdong river rafting, national park trekking, golf, and leisure, it had undergone preparation from 2002 and has started regular service since 2007.

Guest house in the hospital as good as a luxury hotel is a very unique idea. Andong Hospital makes patients rest after examination not in ward but in the hotel at the hospital.

At the beginning, it performed marketing to residents in Andong and figures from this area with the concept of unique healthcare tour program in search of health of body and mind. Then, since it gained popularity from Korea and other countries. Andong Hospital has been expanded from this area towards group meetings from metropolitan areas and company welfare programs for employees as well as Korean residents in America like Seattle and Oklahoma city in USA.