Thyroid and Endocrine Center
Serving as the contact point for internal medicine
and surgical departments, we would like toprovide patients with optimal medical care.
YOKOYA Susumu, M.D., Executive Director of Thyroid and Endocrine Center
Conventionally, diagnosis and treatment of endocrine diseases have been dealt with at the internal
medicine and surgical departments separately, but this Center serves as the comprehensive contact
point for these departments so that patients can receive the optimal medical care. Clinical practicefor endocrine diseases involves a variety of departments including the Thyroid and Endocrine
Medicine, and Diabetology, Endocrinology and Metabolism Departments in internal medicine and,among surgical departments, Thyroid and Endocrine Surgery, Neurosurgery, Urology and Adrenal
Endocrine Surgery, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Departments. These departments share
information by holding regular conferences and other means. We are enhancing efforts to provide
patients with optimal comprehensive medical care by sharing information among specialists gatheredfrom various departments. Commissioned by Fukushima Prefecture, we treat a large number ofpatients who are determined to require medical care as a result of the Fukushima Health Management
Survey’s Thyroid Ultrasound Examination. Clinical practice is conducted primarily by the staff at ourCenter using the leading-edge devices available at our Advanced Clinical Research Center.

PICU（Pediatric Intensive Care Unit）

Advanced Clinical Division
3 Pillars of theMirai Building
A: Maintenance of
the Children’s
Medical Center・A facility that accepts patients under
the age of 15 and treats themcomprehensively across alldepartments.
・Enhancing the system of treatment
for children with serious diseases.

1. Medical treatment for emergencies,
disasters, and nuclear exposure

3. Enhanced treatment
environment

2. Medical treatment giving women and children peace of mind

B: Expansion of theComprehensive Perinatal
Medical Center・A facility that provides advanced medical treatment
for high-risk mothers, fetuses, and newborns in the(prenatal and postnatal) perinatal phase.
・Enhancing a medical environment that protects
mothers and children in order to feel safe andsecure giving birth to and raising children.

C: Strengthening
our Reproductive
Medicine Center

5th Floor: Children’s Medical Center・June 2017, began operating a PICU (pediatric intensive care unit)
with 4 beds
・June 2018, PICU changed from 4 beds to 6 beds (increase of 2 beds)
・October 2018, changed to 51 beds per ward (decrease of 8 beds)
・November 2019, changed to 53 beds per ward (increase of 2 beds)

3rd Floor: Maternal and Perinatal Center

・MFICU 6 beds ・East wing 31 beds (mainly obstetrics)
・NICU 15 beds ・GCU 12 beds

・A facility that functions as the base hospitalin Fukushima Prefecture for fertility
treatments.
・Aim to become the optimal hospital for
reproductive medicine and increase ourstaff.

2nd Floor: Reproductive Medicine Center

・April 2019, opened as a central treatment facility.
・At the request of the prefecture, established an infertility consultation
center.

Education and Human Resource Development Division
We are fostering human resources dedicated to supporting the lifelong health of the people in Fukushima.
In order to sustain our activities over a long period of time, this division is fostering competent human resources to continue the work of
our center, and next-generation medical professionals who can contribute to community-level medical care as well as those for natural
disasters and emergency radiation exposure.
New departments in clinical medicine

Radiation Health Management (Opened on Oct. 1, 2011)
Thyroid and Endocrinology (Opened on Mar. 1, 2013)
Disaster Psychiatry (Opened on Oct. 1, 2013)
Radiation Oncology (Opened on Aug. 1, 2014)
Medical Oncology (Opened on Sep. 1, 2014)
Radiation Disaster Medicine (Opened on Oct. 1, 2014)

New departments insocial medicine

New departments in basic
medical science

Epidemiology(Opened on Aug. 1, 2013)

Radiation Life Sciences(Opened on Nov. 1, 2011)

Health Risk Communication(Opened on Jan. 1, 2015)

Radiation Physics and Chemistry(Opened on Aug. 1, 2013)

To foster and secure
human resourcesto support
the lifelong health ofthe people of Fukushima

Medical support for Futaba area
Securing secondary emergency medical services in the Futaba area and providing wide-area comprehensive medical support.
Fukushima Medical University established the “Futaba Emergency and General Medicine Support Center” in April 2016. It has
been working to support the “Futaba Medical Center”, established by Fukushima Prefecture in April 2018 by dispatching doctors
and providing remote diagnoses, etc., provide medical support (individual guidance for untreated patients, etc.) for the residentsof the Futaba area, and operational support of a multi-purpose medical helicopter. In this way, it protects the health of residents
who have returned to the Futaba area, nuclear plant employees, and those employees engaged in recovery projects, andsupports the revitalization of the Futaba area from the medical side by resolve medical concerns and encourage returning.

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Multi-purpose medical helicopter