{{Short description|Hospital in Zhongshan, Taipei, Taiwan}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox hospital | name = Mackay Memorial Hospital<br>{{nobold|馬偕紀念醫院}} | image = Mackay Memorial Hospital Taipei 20230331.jpg | caption = | logo = | logo_size = 250px | location = Zhongshan, Taipei | country = Taiwan | coordinates = {{coord|25.058737|121.522371|type:landmark_region:TW|display=inline, title}} | funding = Non-profit | type = District General, Teaching | beds = 1,200 (Taipei Main Hospital) | religious_affiliation = Presbyterian Church Taiwan | affiliation = Presbyterian Church in Taiwan | patron = George Leslie Mackay | speciality = | founded = 1880 | website = {{URL|https://post.mmh.org.tw/english/|mmh.org.tw}} }} '''Mackay Memorial Hospital''' ({{zh|t=馬偕紀念醫院|poj=Má-Kai Chòng-Ha̍p Pēⁿ-Īⁿ<!--馬偕綜合病院-->|w=Ma³-Chieh¹ Tsung⁴-Ho² Yi¹-yüan⁴|p=Mǎjiē Jìniàn Yīyuàn|first=c, poj}}), established on 26 December 1912, is one of the largest medical centers in Taiwan. It is a private Christian hospital in Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan, mostly associated with George Leslie Mackay, the first modern missionary to northern Taiwan. The hospital is deeply rooted in the Presbyterian tradition and under the spiritual guidance of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan.
==History== The original Mackay Hospital — named Mackay Clinic — was built by Mackay in Tamsui in 1880 and named to commemorate George Leslie Mackay, whose widow donated the funds.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mackay |first=George L. |year=1896 |title=From Far Formosa: the island, its people and missions |place=New York |publisher=F. H. Revell Co. |url=https://archive.org/details/fromfarformosais00mackrich |page=316}}</ref> At that time, the Mackay Clinic was the first western medical institution in northern Taiwan. It was temporarily closed in 1901 at the death of Mackay.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Han Cheung|title=Taiwan in Time: Healing and preaching|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2016/12/25/2003661872/2|accessdate=25 December 2016|work=Taipei Times|date=25 December 2016}}</ref>
Mackay Hospital was reopened in 1906. In 1912, it was relocated from Tamsui to Taipei and renamed Mackay Memorial Hospital.<ref>{{cite news|title=A Chronicle of Events|url=http://eng.mmh.org.tw/dnn/AboutMackay/AChronicleofEvents/tabid/179/language/zh-TW/Default.aspx|accessdate=25 December 2016|publisher=Mackay Memorial Hospital}}</ref> Its logo bears the date of the original foundation: 1880.
Clarence Holleman ran the financially struggling hospital from 1957 to 1960,<ref>{{cite news |title=W95-1196. Holleman, Clarence H. (1890-1973). Papers, 1929-1971. 0.25 linear ft. |url=https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/collection_registers/417/ |access-date=27 November 2022 |publisher=Hope College}} [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/268388226.pdf Alternate URL]</ref> and during his tenure, corresponded with {{ill|Samuel Noordhoff|zh|羅慧夫}}, who became Holleman's successor. In 1967, the hospital built the first intensive care unit in Taiwan. Chang Chin-wen, a colleague of Noordhoff's, derived the term's Chinese translation. Two years later, Mackay Memorial Hospital began offering services as the first suicide prevention center in Southeast Asia. Chang, who had watched ''The Slender Thread'', advocated for a suicide hotline as well, which became operational in July 1969. Nordhoff later sent Chang to study medical management in the United States, while Nordhoff himself returned to the US to be trained in cleft lip and palate surgery. After their return to Taiwan, Mackay Memorial Hospital built the first specialized cleft lip and palate center in Taiwan. In 1994, it established the first demonstration burn ward in Taiwan.<ref>{{cite news|title=Surgeons for Smiles|url=https://taiwantoday.tw/print.php?post=21992&unit=12,29,33,45|accessdate=25 December 2016|work=Taiwan Today|date=1 May 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author1=Han Cheung |title=Taiwan in Time: Saving Mackay Hospital |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2022/11/27/2003789671 |access-date=27 November 2022 |work=Taipei Times |date=27 November 2022}}</ref> In 2025, the hospital was a victim of a Chinese hacker who exfiltrated over 16 million patient records.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mendelson |first=Allegra |date=2025-06-22 |title=China increases cyber attacks on hospitals to 'humiliate' Taiwan |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/22/china-increases-cyber-attacks-hospitals-taiwan/ |access-date=2025-06-23 |work=The Daily Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}</ref>
==Notable births== * Tsai Ing-wen, President of Taiwan<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/focus/paper/488332|title = 感謝支持 蔡現身長老教會年會 - 焦點| work=自由時報電子報 |date = 29 April 2011 | author1=自由時報電子報 }}</ref>
==See also== * Healthcare in Taiwan
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