Since the establishment of Cardinal Tien Hospital we have been providing acute medical care not only for Xindian, but also for remote areas such as Wulai, Shenkeng, Shiding, and Pinglin.  Our aim is to integrate missionary work while providing medical services.　      

In May 2000 Cardinal Tien Hospital launched a Medical Care Efficacy Improvement Project in Wulai. We provided free outpatient services, medical care to the remote areas, transported those who needed hospitalization to the main hospital in Xindian. We also provide preventive health care for children, adults,   and prenatal care, home care, and health education to these sparsely populated areas at Fushan and Xinxian. Based from the health station we provide Home Care for the elderly two to three times each month.  We train volunteers and improve the quality of home medical care there.

      Our “Community Health Center”—a bridge between the hospital and the public was officially opened in December 1998.  We provide Xindian citizens with advanced care by means of a “multi-professional team”. We implement the concept of a community–oriented hospital providing vital services for the local community.

      Our Community Medicine emphasizes not only on the development of community–oriented hospital but also holistic care (for the whole person, for the whole family, with the whole team and through the whole process). Hence, in February 2005 our “Family and Community Medicine Department” was subdivided into a Family Medicine Section and a Community Medicine Section.

It is our hope that this multi-professional team of our Community Medicine Unit can achieve (1) the construction of a community holistic medical care network and be the model of holistic care (2) we can provide 3Cs2As (comprehensiveness, coordination, continuity ,accountability, access) and truly become the guardian of health for the citizens of Xindian.

      The brand-new Family and Community Medicine Units are operated on the basis of “three levels and five categories.”  The Family Medicine Unit is in charge of the second-level “medical care (holistic outpatient services, physical exams, community based outpatient services”. The Community Medicine Unit is in charge of the first-level “preventive health care and promotion of community health care” and the third-level “long-term care and social welfare services.”  The Community Medicine Unit is the bridge between the hospital and the community.  The diligent efforts of these units have won great support from the local authorities.