Catholic Medical Center's Social Contribution Activities Reached KRW 20 Billion for the First Time, Up 36.1% YoY
Jul 08, 2024
The scale of social contribution activities conducted by Catholic Medical Center (Professor Lee Hwa-sung, Vice-President and Medical Center Director) for marginalized and difficult neighbors over the past year exceeded 20 billion won for the first time since the tally of social contribution activities. The total amount of social contribution activities in 2023 at the Catholic Central Medical Center and eight affiliated hospitals (Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Yeouido St. Mary's Hospital, Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital, Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital, Incheon St. Vincent's Hospital, and Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital) was 22 billion won, up 36.1% from 2022 and 77.4% from 2021.
The number of beneficiaries was also 1060,000, a 33% increase from 2022 (79,000), and the number of pre-COVID-19 beneficiaries was close to 1360,000.
The increase in the scale of social contribution activities at Catholic Central Medical Center is due to not only charitable treatment, but also direct treatment for migrants and domestic and overseas medical services, which were difficult due to COVID-19.
The Catholic Central Medical Center's social contribution activities will be conducted in a total of seven categories, including ▲ donation ▲ charitable care ▲ domestic and overseas medical service ▲ operation of permanent clinics ▲ invited training and education. Among them, charitable care (17.75 billion won), donations (1.05 billion won), and domestic and overseas medical services (620 million won) were the highest.
The largest portion of Catholic Central Medical Center's social contribution activities is the charitable care project. Over the past 11 years (2013-2022), the performance of charitable care at eight hospitals under the Catholic Central Medical Center has steadily increased since 2019, the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Catholic Central Medical Center, which implemented a charitable treatment project worth about 9 billion won in 2013, continued to grow after exceeding 10 billion won to 10.34 billion won in 2014 the following year, recording the highest support ever with 14.56 billion won in 2022 and 17.75 billion won in 2023. In particular, more than 390,000 people have benefited from the Catholic Central Medical Center's charitable care project over the past 11 years, with a total size of 132.65 billion won.
Charitable care centered on severe diseases such as cancer, blood cancer, cardiovascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease, and frequent diseases such as eye diseases, chronic renal failure, and pneumonia were also included in the project. In addition, projects such as knee degenerative arthritis, medical expenses for senile eye diseases, and charitable health checkups reflecting the characteristics of aging communities are also underway. In addition, as a Catholic institution, it is actively participating in solving social problems by supporting high-risk mothers and newborns for socially vulnerable groups such as single mothers, multicultural families, and foreign worker families, and actively participating in suicide prevention projects.
The Catholic Medical Center is giving warm hands not only to domestic charitable treatment but also to neighbors in need abroad.
Representatively, Catholic Medical Angels, a control tower for social contribution activities at Catholic Central Medical Center and affiliated hospitals, was established in 2018 to create synergy through systematic implementation, support, and hospital-specific connection in various fields such as domestic and overseas medical support.
In addition to medical support from overseas, it is continuing to invite patients with difficult surgery to Korea for surgery, and continues to provide various support to various countries such as Mongolia, Cambodia, East Timor, the Philippines, and Burkina Faso.
Lee Hwa-sung, Vice-Chancellor and Medical Director of Catholic University, said "Catholic Central Medical Center has led the development of medicine by continuing to realize values through various social contribution activities based on Catholic spirituality."In the future, we will not only provide essential medical services to patients in the medical blind spot through various social contribution activities, but also strive to diversify the scope and form of activities for the continuous increase of social contribution."
Meanwhile, the Catholic Central Medical Center's social contribution activities have been in full swing since St. Mary's Hospital was established in Myeong-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul in 1936 as part of a project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Joseon Diocese. St. Mary's Hospital has inherited the past tradition of charitable treatment of the Catholic Church in Korea, operated free clinics, and conducted mobile treatment projects together, and has also organized a 'Catholic Medical Volunteer Corps' during the Korean War.
Since then, free mobile medical treatment activities in Muuichon have been actively carried out along with the opening of St. Joseph's Jasun Hospital, the second affiliated hospital of the Catholic Central Medical Center, in 1954. Since then, efforts have been made to inherit and develop the Catholic Church's philanthropic treatment tradition from free clinics in the 1960s to charitable clinics in the 1980s.
The number of beneficiaries was also 1060,000, a 33% increase from 2022 (79,000), and the number of pre-COVID-19 beneficiaries was close to 1360,000.
The increase in the scale of social contribution activities at Catholic Central Medical Center is due to not only charitable treatment, but also direct treatment for migrants and domestic and overseas medical services, which were difficult due to COVID-19.
The Catholic Central Medical Center's social contribution activities will be conducted in a total of seven categories, including ▲ donation ▲ charitable care ▲ domestic and overseas medical service ▲ operation of permanent clinics ▲ invited training and education. Among them, charitable care (17.75 billion won), donations (1.05 billion won), and domestic and overseas medical services (620 million won) were the highest.
The largest portion of Catholic Central Medical Center's social contribution activities is the charitable care project. Over the past 11 years (2013-2022), the performance of charitable care at eight hospitals under the Catholic Central Medical Center has steadily increased since 2019, the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Catholic Central Medical Center, which implemented a charitable treatment project worth about 9 billion won in 2013, continued to grow after exceeding 10 billion won to 10.34 billion won in 2014 the following year, recording the highest support ever with 14.56 billion won in 2022 and 17.75 billion won in 2023. In particular, more than 390,000 people have benefited from the Catholic Central Medical Center's charitable care project over the past 11 years, with a total size of 132.65 billion won.
Charitable care centered on severe diseases such as cancer, blood cancer, cardiovascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease, and frequent diseases such as eye diseases, chronic renal failure, and pneumonia were also included in the project. In addition, projects such as knee degenerative arthritis, medical expenses for senile eye diseases, and charitable health checkups reflecting the characteristics of aging communities are also underway. In addition, as a Catholic institution, it is actively participating in solving social problems by supporting high-risk mothers and newborns for socially vulnerable groups such as single mothers, multicultural families, and foreign worker families, and actively participating in suicide prevention projects.
The Catholic Medical Center is giving warm hands not only to domestic charitable treatment but also to neighbors in need abroad.
Representatively, Catholic Medical Angels, a control tower for social contribution activities at Catholic Central Medical Center and affiliated hospitals, was established in 2018 to create synergy through systematic implementation, support, and hospital-specific connection in various fields such as domestic and overseas medical support.
In addition to medical support from overseas, it is continuing to invite patients with difficult surgery to Korea for surgery, and continues to provide various support to various countries such as Mongolia, Cambodia, East Timor, the Philippines, and Burkina Faso.
Lee Hwa-sung, Vice-Chancellor and Medical Director of Catholic University, said "Catholic Central Medical Center has led the development of medicine by continuing to realize values through various social contribution activities based on Catholic spirituality."In the future, we will not only provide essential medical services to patients in the medical blind spot through various social contribution activities, but also strive to diversify the scope and form of activities for the continuous increase of social contribution."
Meanwhile, the Catholic Central Medical Center's social contribution activities have been in full swing since St. Mary's Hospital was established in Myeong-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul in 1936 as part of a project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Joseon Diocese. St. Mary's Hospital has inherited the past tradition of charitable treatment of the Catholic Church in Korea, operated free clinics, and conducted mobile treatment projects together, and has also organized a 'Catholic Medical Volunteer Corps' during the Korean War.
Since then, free mobile medical treatment activities in Muuichon have been actively carried out along with the opening of St. Joseph's Jasun Hospital, the second affiliated hospital of the Catholic Central Medical Center, in 1954. Since then, efforts have been made to inherit and develop the Catholic Church's philanthropic treatment tradition from free clinics in the 1960s to charitable clinics in the 1980s.
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