Jeonnam National University Hwasun Hospital located on the foothills of Mt.Mudeung of Hwasun-eup in Hwasun-gun with god blessing nature of Jeonnam, opened in April, 2004 with the motto of the nation's first specialized professional medical center. It has 596 beds in the building of 8 floors above ground and one floor below street level on a 10,000-pyeong green area, and strives for public health improvement by treating 1,700 outpatients and 500 inpatients daily.
Jeonnam National University Hwasun Hospital operates special centers like cancer center, rehabilitation center, joint center, dementia-degenerative brain disease center, farmers and fishermen's health improvement center with the consideration of regional features. It has 11 professional special centers of most frequent cancers (gastrointestinal cancer, hepatobiliary pancreatic cancer, breast-endocrine cancer, lung-esophagus cancer, hematological malignancy, pediatric cancer, brain cancer, urinary cancer, craniocervical cancer, musculoskeletal cancer).

In the systematic cooperative treatment system, all the medical workers attend cooperative treatment meeting, and survey patients' condition and various test data to give customers fast and convenient treatment with customized treatment plan. This cooperative treatment system is being benchmarked by other hospitals lately.
Jeonnam National University Hwasun Hospital set up fountains and walks with the background of a range of Mt.Mudeung, Mt.Manyoun, Mt.Osung to meet the name 'high-tech hospital in nature', and made a green space open to the sky and interior garden indoors to be a comfortable hospital like a rest area. It is equipped with the newest high-tech equipments and instruments like PET/CT(computerized positron emission tomography), LINAC(linear accelerator), ROBODAC(surgical robot), Gamma Knife(bloodless surgical instrument) and 64-channel volume CT. Especially, it set up the first minimum infestation operation center in Jeolla province and laparoscopic operation room, and it offers high quality of medical service with excellent medical workers and high-tech medical instruments comparable to major hospitals in Seoul. It aims at one stop service which allows customers be tested, hospitalized and treated on the appointed day by reducing patients' waiting time by computerization, such as PACS(picture archiving and communication system), OCS(ordering communication system) and EMR(electronic medical record).

It strengthened its position as a special cancer hospital by opening state-designated Jeonnam area cancer center recently. The canter reduces patients' economic burden by offering the best treatment to cancer patients, and conducting the whole cancer related affairs including cancer early detection, cancer prevention, education and information.

Jeonnam National University Hwasun Hospital is taking off with a vision 'the world best special hospital' on the background of a remarkable growth in 4 years after opening, such as No.1 in medical institution evaluation in 2005, the only local hospital ranked top 10 in the number of all the six most common cancers by Health Insurance Review Agency in 2006 and No.1 in the number of artificial joint operation among local hospitals.

Jeonnam National University Hwasun Hospital always thinks patients first, and makes an effort to meet the vision 'the world best hospital' with domestic and foreign brand power by the globally best treatment, advanced achievement of research and training special medical workers.