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Pae Reng Yi Flower
(see Dianthus Chinensis for picture)
The vision for Daniel General Hospital was inspired by a Korean
folktale about a traveling sage warrior who comes across a
village suffering from a terrible plague. The village people,
beseeching his help, tell him that the cause of their sickness is
a devil that lives high in the adjacent mountains.
Feeling for them, the sage warrior agrees to kink into the
mountains with his long bow and kill the devil.
On its trail for several days, the sage warrior finally catches up
with the devil and chases it to the peak of the mountain where,
with nowhere else to run, the devil jumps into a large boulder.
Drawing an arrow, the sage warrior takes aim and lets it fly into the rock, piercing it and killing the devil.
As the tale goes, from the rock, from where the arrow hit, there grew the Pae Reng Yi flower.
The flowers were collected by the brave and wise traveler and used to brew a medicine that cured the
village.
This Pae Reng Yi flower is the symbol of Daniel General Hospital.
Welcome!
Daniel Hospital is located in the city of Bu Cheon just west of Gim Po Airport. Originally built in 1998 and
revamped with the latest in medical technology by the Daein Medical Foundation in 2004,
Daniel Hospital is a full service modern medical facility that aims at providing patient care second to
none in both quality and comfort.
The Daein Medical Foundation is a non-profit organization consisting of Korean-American healthcare
professions from across the United States. These individuals have joined for the purpose of meeting
and indeed furthering international as well as Korea's own standard of excellence in medical care.
Daniel Hospital was founded to push these bounds and provide the finest healthcare available to both
members of the Korean community as well as to members of the world wide community at large.
Our method of achieving this end is composed of three interrelated parts.
- Put into practice a management philosophy that centers around 1 on 1 patient-Healthcare
professions relations. - Equip these Healthcare professions with state of the art facilities.
- Foster an environment of dialogue and intellectual exchange between private medical
practitioner surround are as well as from around the globe.
We believe that each part of this triadic method can serve to enhance the other parts.
And insofar as they do so, our patients will receive compassionate, more personalized care that is
based in the latest medical technology.
The first 'Full Facility Attending' System in Korea
Daniel Hospital is a departure from the management philosophy of most hospitals in Korea
In Korea, despite the greater familiarity a primary caregiver would have of a patient's medical history,
there is generally little to no correspondence between them and the more specialized doctors of larger
hospitals.
Restricted solely by access to the type of equipment needed to diagnose or treat more serious
conditions, if the condition of a patient were to deteriorate and require the use of an operating theater or
more sophisticated diagnostic techniques, there is little that a patient could do in the way of keeping his
or her personal or family doctor involved in their treatment at one of these larger hospitals.
On account of such limited access, the relationship between a patient and his or her primary caregiver
becomes strained at these higher levels, serving only to detract from the comfort and overall ease of the
patient at what is already an unsettling time.
One of our goals at Daniel Hospital is thus to keep primary caregivers integrated throughout the
treatment of our patients. Keeping the doctor-patient relation principally in mind, our system invites
patients, both local and foreign to Korea, to have their doctors confer with our staff either by
teleconference or through active participation i.e. by becoming attending physicians for the duration of
their patient's stay with us.
