History
1986
| February | Opens (100 beds, departments: Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Cardiology, Surgery, Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, Cardiovascular Surgery) |
| May | Increased the number of bed to 140 |
| June | Starts pediatrics |
| October | Starts Otorhinolaryngology |
| Increased to 150 beds |
1988
| March | Increased to 250 beds |
| November | Starts Urology, Physical treatment department, radiology |
1991
| April | Opens the "Yu Yu nursery school" |
1992
| April | Opens a speech therapy room |
1994
| May | Opens a Radioisotope room |
| Install a Gamma camera |
1995
| January | Sends a support team for Great Hanshin Earthquake from our hospital |
| April | Starts Anesthesiology Department |
1996
| January | Starts Dermatology Department |
| Entries the Sapporo Medical Association | |
| February | The 10th anniversary of the hospital's establishment |
| April | Opens a Medical Consulting room |
| June | Begins the yearly medical support for the Yosakoi-Soran Festival |
1997
| April | Opens a Hemodialysis center |
| September | Installs "Imatron" the CT scanner |
1998
| January | Starts operating day surgeries |
| June | Opens a Day-Surgery department |
1999
| May | Opens the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department |
| July | Entries the Sapporo Dental Association |
| September | Opens "Tokushuen NAEBO", a geriatric health services facility |
| Disaster support for the Taiwan 921 earthquake | |
| Launches this website | |
| October | Opens a Medical Checkup Center |
2000
| April | Starts Long-term care insurance service |
| Starts the hospital seminar "Donkey" |
2001
| January | Begins the smoking prohibition inside the hospital |
| June | Installs the first 1.5 T MRI |
| July | Adopts the emergency hot line system |
| October | Installs a high baric oxygen therapy machine |
2002
| January | Opens a Health Information Management Room |
| April | Opens a Regional liaison room |
| Designated as a health care facility for clinical training | |
| June | The first Emergency Case Conference |
| October | Installs the MD-CT |
| Launches the Hospital PR magazine "Sukoyaka" |
2003
| January | Increases the number of bed for hemodialysis use to 15 |
| July | Starts Nutrition classroom |
2004
| January | Begins the smoking prohibition throughout the hospital |
| March | Installs the Computed Radiography machine |
| April | First accept the residents for clinical training |
| September | Disaster support for the 2004 Chuetsu earthquake |
| November | Renames the Commuting Rehabilitation Service "Sapporo Higashi Tokushukai Hospital Nursing Care Center" |
| December | Disaster support for the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake |
2005
| April | Installs the Electronic Ordering System |
| Opens a Health Information Management Room | |
| July | Installs the second 1.5-tesla MRI |
| September | Installs the Electric Chart System |
2006
| March | Starts the Nutrition Support Team Action |
| April | Opens the group home "Tokushuen NAEBO"(Geriatric Health Services Facility) |
| August | A ceremony for the completion of a new hospital building |
| September | Opens new building |
2007
| September | Opens the clinical trial center |
| Designated as a health care facility for the training of foreign medical professionals | |
| March | Held a memorial lecture by Randas V. Batista |
2008
| April | Opens the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and the Trauma Center |
| Adopts a "Diagnosis Procedure Combination system" for inpatients' payment |
2009
| January | Begins the smoking prohibition throughout the hospital and within the site |
| May | A joint disaster drill with the Sapporo Higashi Fire Station |
| June | The 1st cadaver memorial service |
| Starts the smoking cessation outpatient service | |
| August | Certified by the Japan Council for Quality Health Care (Ver. 5.0) |
| September | Accepts mass food poisoning patients (58 students of school excursion) |
| November | New parking garage completion |
2010
| January | Special lecture by Dr. Robert Gallo |
| August | Accept the 28 patients from Multiple car crash in the Ishikari Okurige Tunnel |
| September | Starts a ophthalmology department |
| Medical support for the World Rally Championship Japan | |
| December | Starts a Diagnostic Pathology department |
2011
| March | Disaster support for the 2011 Tohoku area earthquake |
| April | The lecture on radiation hazard |
2012
| January | Starts the clinical research center |
| April | Starts Plastic surgery department |
| June | The attached clinical research center was authorized as a designated research institution by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Research Institution Code: 90101) |
| October | Starts Emergency department and Proctology department |
2013
| January | Certified facility by the Japan Council for Evaluation of Postgraduate Clinical |
| April | Starts Breast surgery department |
| Opens the International Medical Room | |
| Advanced medical care "Vascular regenerative therapy using peripheral stem cell" | |
| June | Installs a Linac (True Beam) |
| July | Starts Hematology and Medical Oncology department |
| September | A ground-breaking ceremony for the expansion and renovation held |
| November | The Department of Diagnostic Radiology and the Department of Therapeutic Radiology established (with the Department of Radiology abolished) |
| LINAC (a linear accelerator —TrueBeam®) activated |
2014
| January | A next-generation sequencer (a genome analyzer) installed |
| April | The Department of Neurology established |
| PET-CT scanner installed | |
| August | Accredited by the Japan Council for Quality Health Care under the accreditation standards for Hospital Type 2, 3rdG:Ver.1.0, <the 2nd time> |
| December | Authorized as a Regional Base Hospital Accepting International Patients (MHLW) |
| The extension building completed |
2015
| January | Re-accredited by the Japan Council for Evaluation of Postgraduate Clinical Training (Quinquennial) |
| February | 30th inaugural anniversary |
| May | The interior renovation completed |
| August | Accredited under the Japan Medical Service Accreditation for International Patients (JMIP) |
| Authorized as a Regional Base Hospital of Medical Interpretation Service for International Patients (MHLW) | |
| December | Accredited for JCI |
| A hybrid operating room established |
2016
| April | The Department of Urology established |
| July | The Department of Head and Neck Surgery established |
| Re-authorized as a Regional Base Hospital of Medical Interpretation Service for International Patients (MHLW) | |
| October | Concludes an agreement on Accepting International Patients with the City of Sapporo |
| A bioclean room established | |
| November | Tomoyuki Ohta, M.D. assumes the position of the 7th hospital director |
| December | Accepts a trainee from Indonesia under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) |
2017
| February | The number of open-heart surgeries surpasses the 200-case mark in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery |
| April | Designated as a Prefecture-Designated Cancer Treatment Liaison Hospital in Hokkaido |
| Obtains an institutional authorization to perform TAVI | |
| December | A mock survey of JCI held |
| The number of TAVI operations surpasses the 100-case mark |
2018
| April | Designated for a DPC Special Hospital Group |
| May | The Admission and Discharge Support Center established |
| September | A task force to respond to “the Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake” formed |
| October | The Organ Donation Review Committee and the Brain Death Diagnosis Committee established |
| November | Re-accredited for JCI |