Seongbuk Children's Hospital won the Excellence Award for the Value Patient Safety Campaign together
Nov 13, 2025
Seongbuk Woori Children's Hospital (Chairman Jung Sung-kwan, Hospital Director Yoo Byung-geun), a specialized hospital for children and adolescents designated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, won the Excellence Award in the '2025 More Value Patient Safety Campaign'.
The campaign was held by the Korea Institute of Medical Institution Evaluation and Certification in commemoration of World Patient Safety Day.
Patient safety events are activities to spread patient safety culture involving medical institutions across the country every year to prevent hazards that may occur during patient treatment and to create a safe treatment environment together with medical staff and patients and guardians. The World Health Organization (WHO) designated September 17 as World Patient Safety Day from 2019 to continue to emphasize the importance of patient safety to medical institutions around the world.
The 2025 Patient Safety Event is "Safety Medical Care for Children - Patient Safety from the First Moment of Life!"Under the theme of '2025 All Value Patient Safety Campaign', it was operated under the name of '2025 All Value Patient Safety Campaign', and it was conducted for a total of five days from September 15th to 19th for medical institutions nationwide.
Seongbuk-ri Children's Hospital is a program in which patients, guardians, and staff participate together in accordance with this theme, and ▲X quiz solving together and ▲'Growing Tree' acrostic poem making event.
Among them, a total of 300 people (248 children and guardians, 52 employees) participated in 'OX Quiz Solving', and 91 out of 215 employees (42.3%) participated in 'Garanara Tree Acrostic poem making', forming a high participation rate and consensus.
Seongbuk-ri Children's Hospital was selected as an excellent institution by the Medical Institution Evaluation and Certification Institute as it was recognized for its practical achievements in establishing a patient safety culture by expanding patient and guardian participation.
Yoo Byung-geun, director of Seongbuk Children's Hospital, said "Patient safety is the most fundamental and starting point of medical care. Building trust in safety is of paramount importance, especially in a pediatric care environment with a guardian." In the future, we will continue to strengthen the patient safety culture in which all members of the hospital participate."
With this award, Seongbuk-ri Children's Hospital plans to further strengthen its role as a specialized hospital for children and adolescents that provides a safe medical environment from the first moment of life by expanding patient and guardian participatory safety activities, infection prevention education, and medical staff safety capacity enhancement programs.
The campaign was held by the Korea Institute of Medical Institution Evaluation and Certification in commemoration of World Patient Safety Day.
Patient safety events are activities to spread patient safety culture involving medical institutions across the country every year to prevent hazards that may occur during patient treatment and to create a safe treatment environment together with medical staff and patients and guardians. The World Health Organization (WHO) designated September 17 as World Patient Safety Day from 2019 to continue to emphasize the importance of patient safety to medical institutions around the world.
The 2025 Patient Safety Event is "Safety Medical Care for Children - Patient Safety from the First Moment of Life!"Under the theme of '2025 All Value Patient Safety Campaign', it was operated under the name of '2025 All Value Patient Safety Campaign', and it was conducted for a total of five days from September 15th to 19th for medical institutions nationwide.
Seongbuk-ri Children's Hospital is a program in which patients, guardians, and staff participate together in accordance with this theme, and ▲X quiz solving together and ▲'Growing Tree' acrostic poem making event.
Among them, a total of 300 people (248 children and guardians, 52 employees) participated in 'OX Quiz Solving', and 91 out of 215 employees (42.3%) participated in 'Garanara Tree Acrostic poem making', forming a high participation rate and consensus.
Seongbuk-ri Children's Hospital was selected as an excellent institution by the Medical Institution Evaluation and Certification Institute as it was recognized for its practical achievements in establishing a patient safety culture by expanding patient and guardian participation.
Yoo Byung-geun, director of Seongbuk Children's Hospital, said "Patient safety is the most fundamental and starting point of medical care. Building trust in safety is of paramount importance, especially in a pediatric care environment with a guardian." In the future, we will continue to strengthen the patient safety culture in which all members of the hospital participate."
With this award, Seongbuk-ri Children's Hospital plans to further strengthen its role as a specialized hospital for children and adolescents that provides a safe medical environment from the first moment of life by expanding patient and guardian participatory safety activities, infection prevention education, and medical staff safety capacity enhancement programs.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
