Emergency Care

To receive care at our Emergency Center

In some circumstances, physicians of certain departments and specialties may be temporarily unavailable for normal after-hours outpatient service, where you cannot be seen or have to wait for a long time before you are seen by a physician of the required department or specialty. To know whether or not you can receive after-hours outpatient service at a given time, call the number above before coming to the hospital. The operator will ask about your condition and check whether an appropriate physician will be available to treat you before telling you whether you can be seen. This physician availability check often takes time. Expect a relatively long wait before the operator gets back to you.

About after-hours reception of non-critical patients (with minor condition)

After-hours selective medical care charge

Under the national government’s medical care policy, each medical institution is required to encourage division of medical functions between different types of hospitals and clinics according their scale and characteristics. As part of our compliance with this policy, we receive an After-hours Selective Medical Care Charge from non-critical patients seeking our after-hour medical care, which applies to all after-hour patients who are deemed non-critical.

Outpatients to whom any of the following applies will be exempt from the After-hours Selective Medical Care Charge

• If you are hospitalized immediately after visiting our Emergency Center
• If you have already visited the hospital during the regular service hours of the day but decided to revisit later as your condition has worsened after the first visit
• If you have a referral for emergency outpatient treatment issued by another medical institution
• If you have been instructed by our physician to visit the emergency outpatient service to receive injection or other treatments
• If you have been transported here by an ambulance