With the opening of Inje University College of Medicine, Busan Paik Hospital opened in June, 1979, as a tertiary medical institution, playing a central role in the medical service sector for Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam Province.

Busan Paik Hospital has 26 medical departments and 900 sickbeds with a total of 2,030 employees, including 410 doctors (with 35 interns) and 860 nurses.

Busan Paik Hospital also runs some 30 centers and special clinics, including a digestive endoscopy center, a cardiovascular center, a transplant center, a cancer center, an emergency medical center, a global clinical test center, an ocular neovascular disease center, a neonatal intensive care center, a regional pharmaceutical safety center, a health promotion center, a global clinic, a fertility clinic, a plastic surgery clinic, an intervention clinic, and a gamma knife clinic, all of which makes it the best hospital in Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam Province for its specialized and professional medical service.