Private hospital, Niaosong District.
Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Southern Taiwan’s largest hospital — about 3,000 beds at Niaosong, run by the non-profit Chang Gung Medical Foundation, and where the most serious cases end up.
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高雄長庚紀念醫院
Show a driver 高雄長庚紀念醫院. The MRT does not reach it — it is out at Niaosong beside Cheng Ching Lake, about half an hour by taxi from Kaohsiung Main Station.
Romanised: Gaoxiong Chang Geng Jinian Yiyuan.
- TypePrivate — Chang Gung Medical Foundation, a non-profit foundation hospital group rather than a commercial one
- BedsAbout 3,095
- AddressNo. 123, Dapi Road, Niaosong District, Kaohsiung 833401
- Switchboard+886 7 731 7123
- Chang Gung international medical service (group line)+886 3 318 4301
- Websitecgmh.org.tw
- LanguagesMandarin and Taiwanese; English through the Chang Gung group’s international medical service, best arranged in advance
- AccreditationMedical centre (醫學中心) — the top tier of Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare hospital accreditation
- Opened1986
- On the mapOpen in Google Maps
The biggest hospital in southern Taiwan, with around 3,095 beds on a campus at Niaosong near Cheng Ching Lake. It holds medical-centre status, covers trauma, transplant, cancer, burns and cardiac surgery in depth, and is where hospitals across the south send the cases they cannot handle. The trade-off is distance: no MRT line reaches it.
What it is known for
Scale. With around 3,095 beds Kaohsiung Chang Gung is the largest hospital in southern Taiwan and among the largest anywhere in the country, and it holds the same medical-centre grade as the other two hospitals on this page. It opened at the start of 1986 and covers everything a regional referral hospital has to — trauma, transplant, cancer, burns, cardiac surgery, intensive care — with an emergency department running around the clock and the depth of staffing a hospital this size implies. It is where the smaller hospitals of the south send what they cannot handle themselves.
Who it suits
Serious or complicated illness and injury, particularly with insurance behind you, and anyone already staying east of the city towards Cheng Ching Lake. It is a poor choice for something minor: reaching it is a deliberate journey rather than a short hop, and the two hospitals above are closer to everywhere a visitor is likely to be. Chang Gung runs its international medical service centrally for the whole group rather than as a Kaohsiung desk, so if you want English-language help arranged, do it by phone or email before you travel out here.
Cost and insurance
Chang Gung hospitals belong to a non-profit medical foundation rather than a commercial company, and their prices sit much closer to the public ones than the word private suggests to a Western reader. A visitor still pays the full self-pay rate and should expect to leave a deposit on admission. Pay and claim is the usual route: ask for an itemised receipt and an English diagnosis certificate before discharge. If you want direct billing to a foreign insurer even attempted, raise it through the group’s international medical service before you are admitted, not afterwards.
Getting there
At 123 Dapi Road in Niaosong District, out past the eastern edge of the city near Cheng Ching Lake. No MRT line reaches it, so take a taxi — roughly half an hour from Kaohsiung Main Station, for a few hundred New Taiwan dollars — or a city bus if you are in no hurry. The switchboard is +886 7 731 7123. If the problem is urgent, do not make your own way out here: call 119, and the ambulance will take you to whichever hospital is the right one, which may well be a nearer one.
Details checked against the hospital’s own website, September 2026. Call before a non-urgent visit; in an emergency call 119 or the hospital’s own emergency line above. Travel information, not medical advice.
The other 2 hospitals in Kaohsiung
- Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial HospitalPrivate, about 1,720 beds, Sanmin, near Kaohsiung Main Station.
- Kaohsiung Veterans General HospitalPublic, about 1,488 beds, Zuoying, near Lotus Pond.