For advance of the patient's life span, quality and health, the hospital is committed to organ donation advocacy and implementation of the heart, liver, kidney and corneal transplantation by organ donor team coordination through contacts between the donor families and recipients. The hospital will give an organ donation to the most appropriate patients.
Through the efforts of organ donor team, the number of organ donor patients in our hospital is among the best medical centers in our country. Therefore, our hospital also has successful development in the heart, liver, kidney and also corneal transplant with brilliant achievements.
- Transplantation team work initiated in August 1998.
- First cadaveric kidney transplantation consummated in September 1999.
- First laparoscopic living donor kidney harvest for transplantation consummated in Southern Taiwan in February 2002.
- First living donor kidney transplantation for children consummated in August 2002.
- First dual kidney transplantation consummated in July 2003.
- The Rebirth Association for kidney transplantation initiated in October 2003.
- First heart transplantation consummated in February 2007.
- Multi-disciplinary clinical care consisted with transplant surgeons, pharmacologist and nutrition therapist applied
on OPD patients in March 2007. - First cadaveric liver transplantation consummated in February 2008.
- First multiple organs transplantation consummated in September 2008.
- The Organ Donation Memorial Wall unveiled in May 2009.
- First living donor liver transplantation consummated in August 2012.
- First deceased donor split liver trnasplantation for two adult recipients in May 2014.
- First "used deceased kidney" transplantation in June 2014.
- In March 2018 , the groundbreaking achievement of a successful living liver transplant following a cured hepatitis C and liver donation was completed.
- First Cardiac death organs donation for liver and kidney transplants in April 2019.
- In March 2023, Chief Deputy Superintendent Yu-Feng Tian, MD, Ding-Ping Sun, MD, and Khaa-Hoo Ong, MD, obtained certification as Da Vinci robotic-assisted gastrointestinal surgeons. Specifically, Dr. Tian was certified in robotic rectal surgery, while Dr. Sun and Dr. Ong were recognized as TRSA-certified specialists in robotic liver resection.
- In April 2025, Chi Mei Hospital successfully completed its first Da Vinci robotic-assisted living donor right lobe hepatectomy.
- A multidisciplinary team at Chi Mei Hospital—including the Transplant Medicine Department, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Pharmacy, and Nutrition—successfully assisted Ms. Lin, a kidney transplant recipient, in achieving a natural pregnancy. In October 2025, she safely delivered a healthy baby boy, marking the hospital’s first successful case of pregnancy and childbirth following a kidney transplant. This achievement highlights the medical team’s professionalism and the miracle of life.