President’s Greetings
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Greetings,
I am YoonKyoo Kang, the president of the National Rehabilitation Center (NRC).
The NRC is the only central national institution specializing in rehabilitation for people with disabilities in Korea. Recently, the NRC has grown into an institution responsible for the health and happiness of people with disabilities through the rehabilitation hospital, rehabilitation research institute, central health care center for the disabled, health screening center, and various rehabilitation support programs. In order to fulfill the mission given to the NRC, we would like to endeavor to accomplish the following four goals.
First,we will create standards for rehabilitative health care services that future medical care needs to provide. In addition to providing rehabilitation medical services, we will further strengthen integrated rehabilitation services for the disabled's optimal health and social reintegration, and continue to build a rehabilitation governance system to guarantee the disabled's right to health and strengthening their health management.
Second,we will strengthen research in order to lead rehabilitation standards, technology and policies, improve research quality, and support evidence-based clinical rehabilitation research and test bed implementation. In addition, translational research on cutting-edge practical technologies and research on support for independent living will be further promoted. We will spare no effort to create an ecosystem where integrated rehabilitation services can continuously evolve.
Third,we will establish the infrastructure that can preemptively respond to the needs of people with disabilities in national crises such as outbreaks of new infectious diseases, and conduct an exemplary public management corresponding to the national policy directions.
Fourth,we will prepare an innovative management system for the NRC to take a new leap forward. To this end, we will strive to create the institutional culture based on communication and cooperation, and do our best to achieve customer-centered/trusted service innovation.
The NRC is an asset of the rehabilitation medicine community, the government, and further the people of Korea, and above all, it is a symbol of the responsibility entrusted by the people. We-all of us together!- will do our best to lead a healthy life through rehabilitation services by carrying out ‘changes and reforms toward the mission given to us’.
Thank you
YoonKyoo Kang, The president of the National Rehabilitation Center