Youqing Medical Foundation Youqing Hospital

Youqing Medical Foundation Youqing Hospital (佑青醫療財團法人佑青醫院) is a psychiatric specialty hospital located in Neipu Township, Pingtung County, in southern Taiwan. It operates under the Youqing Medical Foundation, a non-profit medical care foundation, and positions itself as a community-oriented psychiatric hospital serving the Gaoping (Kaohsiung–Pingtung) region. Its stated mission is to promote physical and mental health, create a joyful environment, and encourage community integration so that every patient can find a sense of belonging and safety. The hospital traces its modern form to the late 1990s, when local notable Zhuang Shuncheng (莊順成), a businessman from the real-estate sector, took over a psychiatric hospital that was heavily in debt. According to the hospital's own account, he assumed responsibility for more than NT$300 million in bank debt, an expiring construction permit, and various disputes, and pushed construction forward — at times working through the Lunar New Year holiday — to complete the facility. The hospital's founding is dated to the 88th year of the Republic of China calendar (1999). Clinically, Youqing Hospital provides outpatient and inpatient psychiatric care. Its outpatient schedule covers general adult, geriatric, child and adolescent, and community psychiatry, with named psychiatrists including Yang Sidong (楊斯棟), Lin Jinjia (林進嘉), Qiu Zhixiang (邱緻翔), Lin Shukai (林書楷), and Zheng Wenda (鄭聞達). Chen Yongxing (陳永興) is listed as superintendent (院長). Services include psychiatric treatment, clinical psychology assessment (cognitive function, dementia, personality traits, emotional state), occupational rehabilitation (work therapy, recreational therapy, industrial therapy), social work care, and nursing care covering medication treatment, supportive psychotherapy, group therapy, behavioral therapy, and individual nursing guidance. Distinctive features emphasized by the hospital include a single-story building design intended to avoid the high-rise risks of traditional medical institutions, a green healing environment with gardens, sunlit walkways and plantings, a semi-open care setting, diversified rehabilitation through art and music therapy and social-skills training, and community integration programs offering social participation and family support. The hospital accepts National Health Insurance and publishes bed availability, fee standards, and inpatient regulations. As a foundation-run hospital, Youqing is a private, non-profit healthcare provider rather than a listed company. It is not a manufacturer or consumer brand; its "brand" is its institutional identity as a trusted community psychiatric hospital for the Pingtung area, with a stated goal of becoming the most trusted community psychiatric hospital in the northern Pingtung area.

Youqing Hospital's history, as told by the hospital itself, is closely tied to the personal commitment of a local businessman. As society became more diverse and interpersonal relationships more complex, more people faced physical and psychological stress, yet the Gaoping region lacked a medical institution able to provide comprehensive mental health treatment, leaving many patients struggling to find care. Local notable Zhuang Shuncheng (莊順成) recognized this need and initiated a plan to build a specialized psychiatric hospital, inviting a professional medical team to serve local residents. According to the hospital's account, in the 88th year of the Republic of China calendar (1999), Zhuang Shuncheng — already accomplished in the real-estate industry and able to live comfortably — learned by chance of the difficulties faced by psychiatric patients in his hometown seeking treatment. Moved by the struggles of families coping with a relative's illness, he decided to act. He took over Youqing Hospital, which was already deeply in debt. The challenges he faced were described as nearly insurmountable: more than NT$300 million in bank debt, an expiring construction permit, and various disputes. He often joked that he was like a 'firefighting captain,' but never complained. The hospital recounts that before one Lunar New Year, while everyone else prepared to reunite with family, Zhuang and construction workers labored day and night on the site, racing against time to secure every minute for patients who needed help. That persistence is presented as the foundation of the hospital that stands today, with the lesson that psychiatric patients need not only treatment but also understanding and respect. Today Youqing Hospital operates as a psychiatric specialty hospital under the Youqing Medical Foundation, located in Neipu Township, Pingtung County. It provides outpatient and inpatient psychiatric care with a team of psychiatrists and allied professionals, and it emphasizes a healing environment — single-story architecture, gardens, sunlit walkways, and semi-open care spaces — along with diversified rehabilitation and community integration. Its stated mission is to promote physical and mental health, create a joyful environment, and encourage community integration; its goal is to develop diversified mental health services and continuously improve medical quality, becoming the most trusted community psychiatric hospital in northern Pingtung; and its vision is to safeguard the physical, mental, and spiritual health of the community, change the lives of patients and their families, and promote social harmony. Its strategy is to build reputation, deepen community engagement, refine services, integrate psychiatric specialty resources, provide comprehensive medical services, and advance preventive mental health programs.

• 1999

  Zhuang Shuncheng takes over the indebted Youqing Hospital and pushes construction forward; founding dated to ROC year 88 (1999).

• Hospital operates as a psychiatric specialty hospital under the Youqing Medical Foundation in Neipu Township, Pingtung County.

A community-oriented psychiatric specialty hospital serving the Gaoping region, aiming to be the most trusted community psychiatric hospital in northern Pingtung.

• Outpatient psychiatric services (adult, geriatric, child/adolescent, community psychiatry)

• Inpatient psychiatric care

• Clinical psychology assessment (cognitive function, dementia, personality, emotion)

• Occupational rehabilitation (work therapy, recreational therapy, industrial therapy)

• Social work care and family support

• Nursing care (medication, supportive psychotherapy, group therapy, behavioral therapy)

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