Yoo Byung-geun, the new director of Seongbuk Children's Hospital "Realization of the best specialized hospital for children and adolescents"

Nov 06, 2024

Seongbuk Woori Children's Hospital (Chairman Jung Sung-kwan), a hospital specializing in children and adolescents, held a ceremony to inaugurate the hospital director in the conference room on the 10th floor on the 4th and announced the start of a new leadership. Executives and employees, including medical staff, attended the event to celebrate the dedication of former hospital director Kim Min-sang and the departure of hospital director Yoo Byung-geun for a new leap forward.

Former hospital director Kim Min-sang, who served as the head of the first hospital, said in his resignation, "Stabilizing and developing the new hospital has been the most important thing for the past five years."," he said, emphasizing that he has successfully led COVID-19 and hospital certification evaluations and has been working to create hospitals where employees want to work and hospitals where they want to treat them. In addition, he expressed his sincere gratitude to the current Seongbuk Children's Hospital thanks to the dedication of the opening members and long-term employees and the efforts of the medical staff, and said he will continue to make efforts to help the hospital develop.

Yoo Byung-geun, the new hospital director, is a pediatric and adolescent specialist and detailed pediatric emergency medicine specialist who obtained a bachelor's and master's degree from Korea University's medical school, and is a medical-oriented practical veteran with more than 20 years of clinical experience in private hospitals, general hospitals, and pediatric hospitals.




He has been devoted to the treatment of pediatric patients by serving as the vice president of Seongbuk-gu Children's Hospital, and has also been active in the community as the general director of Seongbuk-gu Medical Association. In addition, he is actively participating in academic activities as an outpatient professor at Kyung Hee University Hospital, a lifelong member of the Korean Pediatric Association, and a regular member of the Korean Pediatric Respiratory Allergy Association.

Yoo Byung-geun, the new head of the hospital, vowed that "(Seongbuk Woori Children's Hospital) is a hospital created by the dedication of all members, not by the efforts of one person," and that "it will continue to be a hospital director that employees can trust and follow in the future." We will work together with all the members to realize the president's goals of employee satisfaction, patient safety, and smart hospitals to make Seongbuk Children's Hospital the best specialized hospital for children and adolescents in Korea" he expressed his ambition.

Through this inauguration ceremony, Seongbuk-ri Children's Hospital is expected to strengthen its status as the only specialized hospital for children and adolescents in Korea despite the changing medical environment, focusing on patient safety and employee satisfaction.




Yoo Byung-geun, the new director of Seongbuk Children's Hospital 'Realization of the best specialized hospital for children and adolescents'





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