Yanhee International Hospital ( [roːŋpʰájaːbaːn jənhiː], YAHN-hee) is a multi-service general hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, that specializes in a range of medical and cosmetic services. Yanhee comprises a 15-story hospital building with a 400-bed capacity, 150 full-time doctors, 120 part-time health professionals, and 800 nurses. Additionally, Yanhee operates 95 outpatient examination rooms, 12 major and 30 minor operating rooms, an 18-bed Intensive Care Unit, emergency rooms, delivery rooms, a diagnostic laboratory and a nursery.
Site
Yanhee International Hospital is located in the Bang-O, Bang Phlat District of northeastern Bangkok, on Charansanitwong Road. The hospital maintains 36 treatment centers in general medicine and cosmetics, serving about 2,000 outpatients daily and more than 100,000 social security enrollees. Yanhee operates 24 hours daily, with services provided by 130 full-time doctor specialists, 125 part-time specialists, and more than 1,500 healthcare professionals and support staff.
History
Yanhee International Hospital was opened in 1984 as a small outpatient clinic by Dr. Supot Sumritvanitcha, M.D., N.D., who named the hospital after the Yanhee Power Plant located nearby. The hospital is now more well-known than the power plant (which has also since changed its name), and the original Yanhee International Hospital has been expanded many times over to include its numerous services.
Services and Medical Centers
The following is a list of departments and special services offered at Yanhee International Hospital:
Aesthetics (non-surgical) Aesthetic Gynecology Center Bariatric Surgery Cardiac Center Check-up Center Cosmetic Surgery Dental Care Dermatology Detox Center Diabetes Center Dialysis ENT Fertility Treatment Gastroenterology General Surgery General Medicine Center Hair Removal Center Hair Transplant Hemodialysis Center Hyperbaric Center Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Imaging Laser Skin Treatment Medical Check-up Center Neurology Obstetrics - Gynecology Ophthalmology Orthopedics Pediatric Center Skincare Center Sex Reassignment Surgery Urology Vein Center
Facilities
Accreditation and Standards
Yanhee International Hospital has several accreditations and runs under official standardization procedures. The hospital implemented the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2000, and currently maintains that standardization.
Yanhee recently received accreditation from the Joint Commission International Accreditation, USA which became effective on 22 January 2011, and will run through January 2014. Yanhee also has accreditation from Hospital Accreditation, Thailand.
Awards and recognition
On May 25, 2012, Yanhee International Hospital was awarded the Reader's Digest Gold Award for Asia's Most Trusted Brands. The Reader's Digest Trusted Brands Survey attempts to identify the top brands that consumers in Asia trust. Scoring for the survey is based on six core ideals: trustworthiness and credibility, quality, value, understanding of customer needs, innovation and social responsibility.
Yanhee International Hospital is known for having particularly knowledgeable and skilled surgeons for sexual reassignment surgery, also known as a sex change operation. One of Yanhee's most famous sex change patients is Beautiful Boxer star Parinya Charoenphol, known publicly as Nong Toom. Nong Toom gained fame and fortune in 1998 as a champion kickboxer at Lumphini Stadium, but in 1999 arrived at Yanhe Hospital to undergo a full sex change operation, changing her male body to the female she currently is today.
The hospital was also featured in an episode of National Geographic Channel's Taboo Series, in which a patient sought sex change surgery at Yanhee.
Yanhee is also known for its famous "rollerblade girls," who zip through the hospital carrying patient documents and internal paperwork, wearing short skirts and rollerblades.
Humanitarian Work
Yanhee Hospital participates in Operation Bright Smile, a program that manages free surgery and care for children born with a cleft palate. Yanhee Hospital provides surgery for 100 children with cleft lip or palate each year, free of charge, and for the more than 14 years that Yanhee has participated in the program, the hospital has helped more than 1,115 children. Yanhee continues to run the program, which, according to the hospital “lets these children face tomorrow with a brighter smile.”