"A specialized children's hospital provides integrated care," explains Dr. Lin. Unlike general hospitals, where the focus is on adults, children's hospitals naturally put children first and provide care from the mother's womb, including prenatal genetic health counseling, to adulthood. Their departments of obstetrics, genetic medicine, pediatrics, ophthalmology, dentistry, and plastic surgery enable such hospitals to offer a full range of pediatric services.
「兒童專門醫院講求的是連貫性的照顧，」林凱信指出，有別於一般醫院以大人為主，兒童醫院以兒童為主體，打從孩子在娘胎裡就照顧起，甚至提前到產婦懷孕前的優生保健諮詢，一直到長大成人為止，為孩子打造包含產科、基因醫學部、小兒科、眼科、牙科、整形科等整體醫療照顧體系。