Twenty-Year History of the Health and Sports Department

Abstract

The Health and Sports Department established on 18 May 1996 is comprised of four divisions: a Health and Sports Clinic, a Consultation by Appointment Clinic, a Members-only Refresse Club, and a Complete Medical Examination Service. The Health and Sports Clinic, the biggest feature of this project, was conceived as a facility to address various lifestyle diseases through offering consultations on exercise, health, and nutrition. It operates on a membership system with an annual fee of 300,000 JPY per member. The Consultation by Appointment Clinic is a specialty outpatient facility which charges appointment fees that are treated as special healthcare expenditures. When it opened in 1996, there were two examination rooms. It has since moved to the south side of the third floor of Building B in May 2016, and there are now 10 examination rooms. For the first time, these have also been established to meet the needs of otolaryngological, ophthalmological, gynecological, and urological patients. The Refresse Club is a members’ club providing the best and the most exclusive medical services at Juntendo University Hospital. There are approximately 140 members registered at present, with membership growing recently at the rate of a few new applications per year. The Medical Examination Services started with doctors on temporary transfer to the Health and Sports Department who performed one to two complete checkups a day. This service started with different lecturers and senior staff from various internal medicine departments taking turns to provide physical examinations and document results. Subsequently, with the cooperation of the Department of General Medicine, doctors were deployed to this clinic long enough to perform 4-5 complete medical checkups a day. At present, around 10 people a day can receive a complete medical checkup on an outpatient basis, and an additional 10 people per month can have an inpatient medical checkup.