Medical ESG Sustainability Report Case Study: Sharing of ESG Practice Results from Taipei Veterans General Hospital Yuli, Taitung, and Fenglin Branches

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With sustainable development gradually becoming a core issue in healthcare governance, how to effectively implement ESG (Environment, Society, and Governance) in non-listed and rural healthcare institutions , moving beyond mere slogans or formalized reports, is a key challenge facing many healthcare systems.

Our company recently completed the 2022-2023 ESG Sustainability Report project for Taipei Veterans General Hospital's Yuli Branch, Fenglin Branch, and Taitung Branch. This project assisted the branch system in establishing an ESG framework and disclosure logic that conforms to medical practice, providing a concrete and feasible demonstration case for the sustainable development of rural healthcare.

ESG is not just about disclosure, but a governance tool that returns to the medical field.

This ESG sustainability report is not merely a compilation of indicators, but rather a systematic review of the three branches' actions and achievements in governance (G), environment (E), and society (S) from the perspective of their actual operations and services. The report covers:

Sustainable Governance and Significance Analysis : Establish a branch-level ESG promotion framework to focus on core issues that truly affect healthcare quality and community development through stakeholder communication and significance identification.
Environmental performance management : This includes energy and electricity management, water resource use, waste reduction, green procurement, and air quality management, gradually internalizing environmental management as part of the hospital's daily operations.
Social responsibility practice : Focusing on rural healthcare accessibility, patient safety, employee health, and community health promotion, this reflects the long-term social commitment of medical institutions.
Governance and risk management : This includes regulatory compliance, information security, internal controls and risk response mechanisms, and strengthening the transparency and organizational resilience of healthcare governance.

ESG Approaches Tailored for Unlisted and Rural Healthcare Institutions

Compared to listed companies, branch and regional medical institutions often face practical limitations such as limited manpower, fragmented data, and uncertainty about where to begin with ESG implementation. This project adopts a core strategy of " laying a foundation in the first year and emphasizing systems rather than implementing them all at once " to assist hospitals in completing:

ESG architecture and chapter logic construction
An assessment and integration of the current system and actual practices
Appropriate correspondence between sustainability indicators and SDGs
A feasible medium- to long-term sustainable development blueprint

Let ESG become a tool to support hospital management and external communication, rather than an additional burden.

From showcasing achievements in Yuli and Taitung to becoming a sustainable model for the branch hospital system.

Currently, Taipei Veterans General Hospital Yuli Branch and Taipei Veterans General Hospital Taitung Branch have successively disclosed ESG and sustainability-related information on their official websites, demonstrating the concrete progress made by the branches in system construction and information transparency; Fenglin Branch is also simultaneously promoting the same framework, and subsequent results will be made public according to the hospital's plan.

This branch system ESG project demonstrates that even non-listed, non-large medical centers can achieve concrete, credible, and sustainable results as long as the methods are correct and the pace is clear.

Establish a replicable healthcare ESG practice model

In the future, our company will continue to build on this project to help more medical institutions, small and medium-sized organizations and public service units establish appropriate Medical ESG Sustainability Report frameworks based on their organizational characteristics, so that sustainability is not just a response to policy requirements, but becomes a core capability that supports the long-term development of organizations and social trust.