Taichung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare - West District

A government hospital with giant banyan trees around. The one at the corner between Mingquan and Sanmin road is iconic with a line of Cuban royal palm trees next to it.

Excellent hospital. My friend had the best experience here that she couldn’t help but leave a 5 star review- one star for how many days it took for her to be treated! A must go indeed.

The service here was superb, we went to Taichung for our sernior graduation trip and my friend greatly suffered from an epidermal cyst of atheroma on her axilla, beside her serratus anterior, refraining her daily movements and hugely impacting her by ceasing her somnolence, affecting our overall experience in Taichung. The hospital is equiped with resistive, capacitive, aurface acoustical wave (SAW) and infrared (IR) technology to aid appointment booking. The staff there is highly patient with us aphasia diagnosers. Weight and height check were even offered to us for free accompanied by light hearted jokes from the staff throughout their service to up lift our spirit as a result from our sickened friend’s misfortune on her axilla. Most importantly, a FamilyMart store is located on the first floor of the facility, providing us with easy acess to local Taiwanese beverages and food, allowing us to shop for local Taiwanese products whilst waiting for our sickened friend, saving much of our time!

My local hospital for most of the time I lived in Taichung. The doctors here fixed my broken leg, I had health exams, and visited the dentist here. I did not have insurance when I broke my leg, but the financing department was cool about a repayment plan. There is a Family Mart and a coffee shop in the lobby. You can get prescriptions filled on the premises.

This hospital had excellent service! I was scared because of the reviews I saw with 1 star, but the nurses were so hospitable and welcoming. They even offered my friends free height and weight measuring services. They understood my broken mandarin perfectly, and there was no communication barrier. The wait was short and the system at the hospital is so efficient! I revisited 3 times in a span of 5 days, easily accessible location with taxis and public transport around. A must go in Taichung!

As a foreigner, this is the worst hospital I have EVER been to in my life. I went in for a yearly routine health check (as required by foreigners in Taiwan). After I went into the main building, paid the bill and received a chest scan. They then proceeded to round up all of the foreigners and take us the the Psychiatric wards basement (filthy place) which was 10 minutes walk away to proceed with the exam. Utterly racist and I will never be coming back.

Bring a book as you'll have plenty of time to read it while waiting to be seen. I once waited 4 hours. That was a good day. Renai hospital can do the foreigners health check in 20 minutes. It's a pleasant and painless experience. Here you'll need half a day to do the same thing. Bring your best walking shoes as you'll be walking all over the hospital for things like getting your height checked (spoiler: it's the same as last year) to getting blood work done. It just feels unprofessional and ill prepared.

This review is for the dentistry department. The doctor I saw was extremely arrogant and rude. He refused to answer my questions. He simply just became silent and walked away right after he finished his work on my teeth. AMAZING. It was the nurse who assisted him answer my questions. The doctor has zero bed side manner. I wouldn't trust his skill and definitely won't return.