Information about Hospital Departments

General Medicine: Examines patients who visit the Department of Internal Medicine for the first time or without an appointment/referral.
Gastroenterological Medicine: Examines and provides medical care to patients who have esophageal, gastrointestinal, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas diseases. 
Respiratory Medicine: Examines and provides medical care to patients who have bronchial and lung diseases. Please consult with a doctor if you have cough, phlegm, or trouble breathing.
Cerebrovascular/Cardiovascular Center: Multiple hospital departments (Cardiovascular Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Surgery, and Neurosurgery) deal with a patient with generalized vascular pathology in an integrated manner to give optimized examination and medical care.
Internal Medicine for Kidney/Collagen Disease: Examines and provides medical care to patients who have kidney disease, rheumatological disorder, and collagenosis.
Endocrine/Metabolic Internal Medicine: Examines and provides medical care to patients with diabetes, gout, thyroid, and hormone (except for female hormone) diseases.
Hematology/Medical Oncology: Examines and provides medical care to patients with hematological disorders as well as oncological diseases subject to chemotherapy.
Neurology: Examines and provides medical care to patients with headaches, dizziness, paralysis of the limbs, and difficulty with speech.
Women-Only Outpatient Clinic: By appointment only (Monday and Friday afternoons) Doctors in this clinic give comprehensive exams and consultations for patients with diseases specific to women.
Pediatrics: Examines children and gives periodical medical check-ups for infants. Please consult with your doctor about problems concerning both physical and mental conditions.
Surgical Department: Examines and provides medical care to patients with digestive system, respiratory, and thyroid diseases.
Orthopedic Trauma Unit:   Examines and provides medical care to patients who have bone, joint, muscle, tendon, spine, spinal cord, and peripheral nerve disorders and injuries.
Plastic Surgery:   Provides surgical treatment to patients with burn injuries, deformation and loss of body surface, tumors, and natural abnormalities.
Neurosurgery: Examines and provides surgical treatment to patients with brain and spinal cord diseases.
Dermatology: Comprehensively examines patients with skin symptoms.
Urology: Comprehensively examines patients with urinary tract (kidney, bladder) as well as male genital organ (prostate, testicle) disorders.
Obstetrics/Gynecology: Provides antenatal checkup, delivery of babies, and health guidance during pregnancy, as well as examines patients with diseases specific to women. Please consult with your doctor if you are suffering from infertility and menopausal discomfort.
Ophthalmology: Examines and provides medical care to patients who have cataract, glaucoma, retinopathy of diabetes, as well as any other ophthalmic diseases.
Otolaryngology: Examines and provides medical care to patients who have problems with their ear, nose, or throat and who have cervical lymph node, thyroid, and salivary gland diseases.
Anesthesiology: Administers general anesthesia and monitors a patient’s condition during surgery.
Radiology: Uses diagnostic imaging such as CT, MRI, and angiography and gives precise and less invasive therapy.
Nuclear Medicine: Provides isotope therapy and thyroid treatment.
Oral Surgery: Examines and provides medical care to patients who have jaw, face, and oral diseases and injuries. * Excluding dental/denture care, and treatment of gum disease.
Rehabilitation Unit: Helps in the recovery of the motor area related to the speech function of patients who have physical disabilities, aiming for their readjustment to society.
Rehabilitation  Treatment to promote exercise and the language function recovery of a person having an obstacle to a body, and to aim at the comeback to normal life.
Pathological Diagnosis: Provides quick and accurate pathological diagnosis by taking advantage of a combination of the conventional clinicopathology and the state-of-the-art immunostaining method and gene test.
Kokorono (Psychiatric) Medical Center Kokorono (Psychiatric) Medical Center consists of the departments of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, Daycare, and Occupational Therapy. Equipped with specialized medical care systems including the Psychiatric Emergency Ward, Emergency Complication Ward, Alcoholism Treatment Program, and the comprehensive community support system with home-visit care and working with multiple functions, the Psychiatric Medical Center provides mental care and rehabilitation to patients in the urgent stage all the way up to the stage of readjustment to society. As a core mental healthcare institution in the prefecture that takes advantage of the merits of a general hospital psychiatric department with an attached rare tertiary emergency medical center, the Psychiatric Medical Center aims to improve team medical services that combine multiple comprehensive functions, with a special emphasis on the treatment of urgent-stage patients as well as to establish a community where the patients and their families can live with peace of mind.