Introducing SAM Hospital

Smart Innovation 2025 Anyang Sam Hospital of the Hyosan Medical Foundation will be retransformed. Anyang Sam Hospital that will be accomodationg 450 hospital beds will strive as a high-tech Smart-Hospital. Anyang Sam Hospital will innovate through high-tech bio medicine, habitual medicine, smart health examinations and preventional holistic medicine.

GlobalizationCelebrating its 46th anniversary in 2013, SAM Medical Center strived to not only to spend its time providing outstanding medical service in the Anyang area but also to globalize its medical services. Furthermore, SAM Medical Center tries its best to practice selfless love by establishing the medical university and hospital in the continent of Africa which was suffering heavily from HIV at the time. In 2013, G SAM Hospital was founded to pursue integrative treatment for cancer and other diseases with the help of cutting-edge medical equipment.

Change On March 1st, 2004, Anyang Hospital announced its new corporate identity: SAM. Anyang Hospital and Anyang Oriental Hospital were renamed as Anyang SAM Hospital and SAM Oriental Hospital, respectively. Along with the opening of SAM Women's Hospital, these hospitals were established together under Hyosan Medical Foundation.

OutreachAnyang Hospital further expanded with the construction of a new building. It also introduced ultra-modern facilities, such as PULL PACS system and MRI, becoming the leading general hospital in Gyeonggi Province with a designated emergency center and a new dental clinic. To reach its vision of providing the best medical service with Christlike love, SAM Medical Center established Clinic of Love to serve foreign laborers for free of charge and developed a broad network among hospitals worldwide. (See "Networks" for details.)

Innovation With the establishment of Hyosan Medical Foundation in 1998, Anyang Hospital became a nonprofit institution. The following year, Hyosan Medical Foundation opened Anyang Oriental Hospital, which collaborates western and oriental medical services and medicine.

GrowthWith its first expansion in 1976, Anyang Hospital went through four more expansions in the course of the next 20 years and firmly established its position as a general hospital owning 250 beds with the added glory of being appointed as the Emergency Medical Hospital of Gyeonggi Province and the designated training hospital for interns and residents.

BirthThe history of SAM Medical Center began in 1967 when Dr. Hwang Young-hee - current Honorary President of the Hyosan Medical Foundation (HMF), established Anyang OBGY Clinic. Soon after, on July 1st, 1972, her husband - current Chief Director of HMF Dr. Lee Sang-taek, founded Anyang Hospital with 25 beds and a few departments of internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, and OBGY.