H+ Yangji Hospital opens emergency treatment beds to respond to infectious diseases in the country
Dec 04, 2025
H Plus Yangji Hospital (Hospital President Kim Sang-il) announced that "In order to strengthen the national infectious disease response capabilities and expand the medical safety net for local communities, a new 'emergency treatment bed for new infectious diseases' was opened and the operation began in earnest from December."
The 'emergency treatment bed expansion project' is a national project that the Ministry of Health and Welfare has been promoting since 2023, and the key is to secure a 'hybrid bed' that can be used as a general patient's medical bed but can be immediately converted into a 'negative pressure isolation bed' when an infectious disease crisis occurs.
The opening of new beds is significant in that it has dramatically strengthened the infrastructure for responding to infectious diseases in Gwanak-gu, which has a high population density. Gwanak-gu, home to about 500,000 people, is a large residential area with the fifth largest population among Seoul's autonomous districts, but the need for expansion has been continuously raised due to the lack of a negative pressure isolation bed and dedicated facilities that can respond immediately if the infectious disease spreads.
Accordingly, H Plus Yangji Hospital remodeled its existing hospital facilities to build a ward equipped with the latest sound pressure system. Normally, it is operated as a 30-bed general ward to increase access to local medical care, and in the crisis of a new infectious disease, it is quickly converted to a negative pressure isolation bed (7 beds in quasi-severe cases and 9 beds in dialysis). As a result, the number of negative pressure beds owned by hospitals has expanded about six times from six rooms to 35 rooms in 13 rooms. Currently, this hospital is the only medical institution in Gwanak-gu with such an advanced sound pressure isolation system.
H+ Yangji Hospital has already proven its expertise as a leading hospital in K-quarantine, which was recognized globally during the pandemic of 'COVID-19'. In March 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, the world's first 'Workthrough Screening Clinic', which secured both infection safety and test efficiency, received worldwide attention.
In addition, it has been designated as a hospital dedicated to infectious diseases from December 2021 to June 2022 and has devoted itself to treating severely ill patients, and the expansion of emergency treatment beds has further strengthened the role of the 「National Infectious Disease Response Base Hospital」.
On the other hand, it will not only expand hardware but also strengthen medical personnel. Currently, the deployment of medical staff has been completed centering on specialized medical departments, including one infectious internal medicine specialist and four respiratory internal medicine specialists, and plans to gradually strengthen the workforce according to the hospital bed operation situation in the future.
Director of Hospital Kim Sang-il "From the world's first walk-through development to the opening of this emergency treatment bed, the hospital has been offering preemptive solutions in the face of a national health crisis"We will continue to actively cooperate with national health policies and do our best to strengthen the medical safety net and improve the quality of medical care that patients can find with confidence." he said.
The 'emergency treatment bed expansion project' is a national project that the Ministry of Health and Welfare has been promoting since 2023, and the key is to secure a 'hybrid bed' that can be used as a general patient's medical bed but can be immediately converted into a 'negative pressure isolation bed' when an infectious disease crisis occurs.
The opening of new beds is significant in that it has dramatically strengthened the infrastructure for responding to infectious diseases in Gwanak-gu, which has a high population density. Gwanak-gu, home to about 500,000 people, is a large residential area with the fifth largest population among Seoul's autonomous districts, but the need for expansion has been continuously raised due to the lack of a negative pressure isolation bed and dedicated facilities that can respond immediately if the infectious disease spreads.
Accordingly, H Plus Yangji Hospital remodeled its existing hospital facilities to build a ward equipped with the latest sound pressure system. Normally, it is operated as a 30-bed general ward to increase access to local medical care, and in the crisis of a new infectious disease, it is quickly converted to a negative pressure isolation bed (7 beds in quasi-severe cases and 9 beds in dialysis). As a result, the number of negative pressure beds owned by hospitals has expanded about six times from six rooms to 35 rooms in 13 rooms. Currently, this hospital is the only medical institution in Gwanak-gu with such an advanced sound pressure isolation system.
H+ Yangji Hospital has already proven its expertise as a leading hospital in K-quarantine, which was recognized globally during the pandemic of 'COVID-19'. In March 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, the world's first 'Workthrough Screening Clinic', which secured both infection safety and test efficiency, received worldwide attention.
In addition, it has been designated as a hospital dedicated to infectious diseases from December 2021 to June 2022 and has devoted itself to treating severely ill patients, and the expansion of emergency treatment beds has further strengthened the role of the 「National Infectious Disease Response Base Hospital」.
On the other hand, it will not only expand hardware but also strengthen medical personnel. Currently, the deployment of medical staff has been completed centering on specialized medical departments, including one infectious internal medicine specialist and four respiratory internal medicine specialists, and plans to gradually strengthen the workforce according to the hospital bed operation situation in the future.
Director of Hospital Kim Sang-il "From the world's first walk-through development to the opening of this emergency treatment bed, the hospital has been offering preemptive solutions in the face of a national health crisis"We will continue to actively cooperate with national health policies and do our best to strengthen the medical safety net and improve the quality of medical care that patients can find with confidence." he said.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
