Department Introduction

Pediatric hematology/oncology in Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei was established in 1976. Not until 1992 that the division of pediatric hematology/oncology was born and relocated to the 6th floor of Chang-Gung Children's Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan. Chang-Gung Children’ Hospital is a teaching hospital of Chang-Gung University. Our subspecialty ward has 30 inpatient beds, staffed with attending physicians, rotating residents, numbers of experienced nurses and pediatric oncology nurses.　Today, our team members consist of 3 board-certified pediatric hematologist /oncologists, 2 oncology nurse practitioners , 1 transplant coordinator, and 1 medical technologist. A clinical hematology laboratory offers facilities to perform general hematology and coagulation tests, including peripheral blood and bone marrow smears to be interpreted by the hematologist in charge of patients. This laboratory is established both for education and service purposes.

A chemotherapy room was designed for outpatient service. It is equipped with TV set, video, magazines, educational materials and brochures; it also has a small library supplying books for all ages. It is a venue for chemotherapy, blood transfusions, and procedures as well as a site for communications between nurse practitioners, oncology nurses and family members. It is also a place to hold educational sessions, counseling and patient-parent conferences. Family support group was established in 2001.