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Yokohama Medical Association

Message from the chairman

Yokohama Medical Association Chairman Takekazu Totsuka

Thank you for visiting the website of Yokohama Medical Association.

Yokohama Medical Association consists of 18 ward medical association members in the city and university district medical association members of Yokohama City University, and with 4,100 members, it is the largest county and city medical association in Japan.

In order to protect the health and welfare of the citizens, the society operates three nighttime emergency centers in Sakuragi-cho, northern and southwestern Yokohama, and together with the holiday and nighttime emergency clinics operated by the 18 wards' medical associations, provides primary emergency medical care for the local residents on holidays and at night. We are also committed to providing various medical checkups, vaccinations, and health promotion programs.

In addition, we operate the St. Luke's College of Nursing, which trains nurses for community health care, appointment of school and nursery school physicians, provide lifelong education and training for members, implement the "Roof Tile School for Clinical Training" to nurture young doctors, and train home physicians. In particular, the four administrative bureaus are working together to provide home medical care for children, ahead of other cities. Furthermore, in the event of a disaster, we are striving to further enhance regional medical care through a wide range of activities, including disaster medical care based on an agreement with the Yokohama City government.

We hope that all citizens will take advantage of the health information we provide through our public relations magazine "Minnano Kenko" (Everyone's Health), radio broadcast "Minnano Kenko Radio", and public lectures in cooperation with medical associations of various departments.

We hope that this website will be of help to the citizens in maintaining and improving their health. We would also appreciate your comments and requests to make this website even better.

Summary

The Yokohama Medical Association is a corporation composed of approximately 4100 doctors in Yokohama. Under management of Public Corporation Japan Medical Association and Kanagawa Prefecture Medical Association and composed of doctors from 18 medical districts member in Yokohama and 1 university district ( Public University Corporation Yokohama City University) is a team specialized in medical care aimed to enrich and enhance medical / insurance / welfare conditions of our citizens.

Under collaboration of “Yokohama-Shi Hokubu Yakan Kyubyou Center*” (*Off hour emergency medical treatment facility ) established at Tsuzuki district in November 1997 and “Yokohama-Shi Nanseibu Yakan Kyubyou Center*” at Izumi district in December 2000, "Yakan Kyubyou Center*" at Nakaku Sakuragi-cho where operation has been transferred to our Association from April 2010 and various off hour emergency medical clinics operated individually by 18 districts, 1st level emergency medical treatment during off hours and weekends are being performed. We also operate a community medicine cooperation center to provide medical institution information to our residents and operate 2 nurse schools ( Kikuna and Hodogaya ) .

Through various town hall lectures, “MINNANO KENKO ( Everyone’s Health )” a public information magazine, we deliver health care information.

In addition, we perform vaccinations, various physical checkups, appointment of doctors for schools and nurseries, training of our members to be able to perform life long education and other activities. We are also obliged to perform medical treatment upon a natural disaster under agreement with the city.