Abstract
Sagamihara Kyodo Hospital (hereinafter, “Kyodo Hospital”) was first opened with 20 beds in August 1945 by what was then called the Kanagawa Agricultural Association, with the aim of providing access to medical care to medically underserved village areas in the northern part of Kanagawa Prefecture. With the growth of the city of Sagamihara, the hospital shifted to become an acute care hospital, reaching a total of 545 beds in 1979. It has obtained numerous designations such as “designated cancer care hospital”, “designated clinical training hospital”, and “community medical support hospital”, and has developed into the central hospital for secondary emergency care in Sagamihara. In this Presidential Symposium, I will discuss the efforts of Kyodo Hospital to provide secondary emergency care in Sagamihara and the role the hospital has played in emergency medicine in the community.(View PDF for the rest of the abstract.)
