Yodogawa Christian Hospital ECO:#326002 (YCH)
The Yodogawa Christian Hospital Is located in Japan's second largest City, Osaka. This facility was built as the result of a dream of Christians in Presbyterian Churches in America wanting to help Japan with reconstruction and rehabilitation after World War II. Women of the Presbyterian Church, U.S. gave substantial funds as their 1955 "Birthday Offering." God has blessed Yodogawa Christian Hospital which is now a 607 bed facility having some 1000 personnel on staff, with a reputation for excellence in many areas of medicine. The hospital also has a medical and evangelistic outreach to other Asian countries. Yodogawa Christian Hospitalespecially aims at a high standard of care for the whole person, mind, body, and spirit. From the beginning, there has been an effort to emphasize the Love and Compassion of Christ through whom one can find salvation and the qualities of wholeness for facing life - even in the midst of life's brokenness and illness.
Yodogawa Christian Hospital Hospice ECO:#326102 (HOSPICE)
In 1973 a hospice-type program of special care for terminally ill cancer patients was initiated At Yodogawa under the leadership of Dr. Tetsuo Kashiwagi. It was the first program of this kind in Japan. Daily, in a morning chapel program, Yodogawa Christian Hospital staff are called to worship our Lord while serving in a Christian ministry model.
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