Hospital Profiles

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The top page of the Jichi Medical University Hospital website features a panoramic view of the hospital along with the hospital’s four principles as “Affinity of the Demands of the times and our Principle.” Our goal is to achieve Patient-oriented, Safe & High Quality, and Community-collaborated medical care.

Since its opening in 1974, Jichi Medical University Hospital has provided safe, high-quality medical care while fulfilling its role as a key community medical center in Tochigi Prefecture. We also have built deep links with the other local medical institutions not only within Tochigi Prefecture, but in a wide range of medical regions including western Ibaraki Prefecture and northern Saitama Prefecture. The hospital is one of the top-ranked university hospitals and advanced treatment hospitals in Japan in terms of the number of beds and surgeries, and one of its main features is the Jichi Children’s Medical Center Tochigi serving as a children’s hospital. Our hospital has been designated as a base by Tochigi Prefecture in various areas, including collaborative treatment for cancer (including pediatric cancer), liver disease, intractable diseases, and epilepsy, in addition to disaster medicine, AIDS, cancer genomic medicine, and clinical trials. For more information, please refer to the link shown below on this website. In addition, we place particular emphasis on medical safety management, and the entire hospital is functionally committed to check systems for highly difficult new medical technologies (such as the first surgery at our hospital) and, more recently, to countermeasures against the novel coronavirus.

Now, Jichi Medical University, the hospital’s parent organization, has a founding philosophy of nurturing physicians who will engage in community medicine throughout Japan, especially in remote areas. For this reason, one of our philosophies is to develop medical professionals who will contribute to community medicine. The Jichi Medical University Hospital is also the first hospital where medical students who have a spirit and passion for community medicine come into contact with medical care. After studying and gaining experience at our hospital, they will play an active part in society. It is also an educational institution for not only medical students, but also initial residents, nurses, and various medical technology-related professionals. We, the staff of this hospital, strive to be a role model for future medical professionals, and we ask for your understanding and cooperation in our role as a teaching hospital.

The name of Jichi Medical University Hospital’s location, “Yakushiji Temple,” derives from Shimotsuke Yakushiji Temple, where thousands of monks gathered 1,300 years ago to cultivate medicinal herbs and provide folk medicine. Inheriting the aspirations of our predecessors, Jichi Medical University Hospital will continue to provide safe, high-quality medical care to all.