Tzu Chi Hospital

Taiwanese teaching hospital in Hualien on the east coast, opened in 1986 as the first hospital of the Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation founded by the nun Cheng Yen, and the flagship of a group of six Tzu Chi hospitals in Taiwan. Provides tertiary care across the medical and surgical specialties with cancer treatment, cardiac care, neurosurgery, transplantation and emergency and intensive care, runs the country's largest bone marrow donor registry, and operates its own laboratories, imaging services and pharmacy with teaching for Tzu Chi University and clinical research.