Asan Medical Center

Hospital in Seoul, South Korea

Coordinates: 37°29′17.4″N 127°5′7.7″E / 37.488167°N 127.085472°E / 37.488167; 127.085472 Asan Medical Center (서울아산병원) is a hospital in Seoul, South Korea. It was established to put into practice the founding principles of Asan Foundation founder Chung Ju-yung. It opened on June 23, 1989, under the name Seoul Jungang (Central) Hospital, and was renamed Asan Medical Center on April 27, 2002. With 2,715 licensed beds and a total floor area of approximately 280,000 square meters (85,000 pyeong), it is the largest hospital in Korea. Since 1993, AMC has been operating the Performance Improvement Team for the betterment of healthcare quality. In 2011, the hospital implemented a year-round evaluation guideline called Asan Global Standard (AGS), designed around the baseline assessment of Joint Commission International (JCI). From Wikipedia