“All patients have a right to effective, safe care at all times.”

“Safety” is the basic and essential worth for medical institutions. Kim Byoung Joon LEDAS Varicose vein clinic is making every effort to ensure patient safety as a top priority, which is more important no less than creating state-of-the-art equipment and comfortable facilities.

JCI is an internationally reputable medical institution accreditation system recognized by the World Health Organization(WHO). To ensure patient safety and provide quality medical services, 1200 items in 14 categories, including infection control, quality of care, patient care, international patient safety, risk prevention, and infection control follow-up system etc, are evaluated according to international standards. This is a procedure to evaluate and verify the safety of the medical institution. The validity period of the accreditation is 3 years.

According to the results of the accreditation evaluation conducted in early 2019, the JCI re-accreditation of our hospital was officially certified by the headquarters of the Joint Commission International on June 4th, 2019.

Our efforts to ensure patient safety at every patient touchpoints also have been recognized internationally. Following 2015, we have been internationally proven the stability of the LEDAS treatment system by receiving JCI re-accreditation in 2019.

In the JCI re-accreditation evaluation, which was conducted within 4 full days, JCI was said that as the treatment environment was re-established through expansion and relocation in 2018, stricter standards were applied to the field of facilities and overall systems than the first evaluation.

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According to the evaluation team in charge of the re-accreditation evaluation of LEDAS, the success of this re-accreditation was an obvious result because of the careful evaluation based on international safety standards scored high on all items.

The evaluation team said, “In the last 3 years since the first accreditation in 2015, the performance has been greatly improved in all sectors.” and “All employees are performing near-perfect work in all fields.” Also, they said, “The solid awareness of patient safety and the safety facilities are excellent.” emphasized the validity of the evaluation results.

As a result, Kim Byoung Joon LEDAS Varicose vein Clinic has maintained its qualification as a JCI-accredited varicose veins intensive care medical institution for three years following the first accreditation.

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Currently, there are # of medical institutions that maintain JCI accreditation worldwide (0000.00.00), and among medical institutions that specialize in treating varicose veins, Kim Byoung Joon LEDAS varicose vein clinic is the only hospital that has obtained JCI accreditation.

With the thorough safety awareness of all LEDAS employees, including Dr. Byoung-joon Kim, we take great pride in the fact that we have created an excellent result.

Dr. Byoung-Joon Kim also expressed himself delighted, saying, “Our hospital has been recognized as a medical institution that has advanced in the international community thanks to the active efforts of all employees of LEDAS personally and systematically to improve patient safety and medical quality from the first accreditation to re-accreditation.”

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As the world-class treatment environment has been proved through JCI re-accreditation, Kim Byoung Joon LEDAS Varicose vein Clinic will keep doing our best toward a global standard for the treatment of varicose veins.

Also, We will fulfill our mission and responsibility to become the safest medical institution and ensure that all patients with varicose veins receive the right treatment.