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For a Dignified Life Where Citizens Live – Busan Launches the “Busan-Type Integrated Care Promotion Team”

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Busan Metropolitan City announced the official launch of the “Busan-Type Integrated Care Promotion Team” (hereinafter referred to as the “Promotion Team”) in preparation for the enforcement of the Act on the Integrated Support of Regional Care, Including Medical and Nursing Services (hereinafter referred to as the “Integrated Care Support Act”) scheduled for March 27, 2026.

The Promotion Team was established to strengthen inter-departmental cooperation ahead of the implementation of the Act and to build a foundation for the integrated connection of care, medical, nursing, and housing services.

The team will be led by the Vice Mayor for Administrative Affairs as Director General, with the Director General of the Social Welfare Bureau serving as Deputy Director General.
It consists of six divisions and twenty-one teams, including the Welfare Policy Division, Elderly Welfare Division, Disability Welfare Division, Health Policy Division, Public Health & Hygiene Division, and Housing Policy Division.
Each division will focus on identifying care services by field, devising linkage measures, and establishing cooperation systems among relevant institutions.

To ensure systematic preparation for the enforcement of the Act, Busan plans to hold three regular meetings before the law takes effect and to operate a working-level consultative body to carry out detailed tasks.
The regular meetings will cover:

• ●sharing the roles of the Promotion Team and reviewing key tasks,

• ●discussing inter-departmental service identification, linkage, and cooperation measures, and

• ●conducting final reviews of the overall cooperation system.

In addition, the City will operate a working-level consultative body consisting of officials in charge from each division on a regular basis to secure practical execution capacity.
This body will work on drafting a comprehensive list of care services, strengthening institutional cooperation, and detailing service linkage plans.

Alongside the operation of the Promotion Team, Busan will hold the “City–Gu/Gun–Home-Based Long-Term Care Center Cooperation Meeting” at 8 p.m. on October 23 at the Busan Social Service Center.
Approximately 40 participants, including division heads and staff from the City and its 16 districts/counties, as well as directors of home-based long-term care centers, will attend.

The meeting will focus on:

• ●sharing policy directions following the enforcement of the Integrated Care Support Act,

• ●discussing the progress of the “15-Minute Home-Visit Medical Support Centers” initiative,

• ●exploring ways to link and promote care and home-visit medical services, and

• ●developing strategies for the operation of integrated support councils and public relations for integrated medical–care services.

(15-Minute Home-Visit Medical Support Centers: Designated local medical institutions capable of providing home-visit medical services to elderly residents with limited mobility.)

Through this cooperative meeting, Busan aims to establish a collaborative framework between local medical institutions and municipal governments and to strengthen the foundation for on-site integrated care services.

With the launch of the Promotion Team and the cooperative meeting, Busan Metropolitan City plans to fully establish the “Busan-Type Integrated Care Support System,” enabling citizens to live with dignity where they have always resided.

In particular, Busan will develop a leading model of integrated support covering medical, nursing, housing, and health management for citizens in need of care, in response to social changes such as the rapid aging of society and the rise in single-person households.

To this end, the City will accelerate efforts to lay institutional foundations through amending the ordinance on community-integrated care, strengthening dedicated organizations, and establishing collaborative systems.
It will also inspect and support each district and county in enacting ordinances, securing dedicated personnel, and forming integrated support councils, with the goal of completing the foundation for the Busan-Type Integrated Care Support System by December 2025.

Vice Mayor for Administrative Affairs Lee Jun-seung stated,
“The Busan-Type Integrated Care Promotion Team marks the starting point of integrated care services that citizens can truly experience.
Through the cooperative meeting between the City, districts/counties, and home-based long-term care centers, we will further strengthen the link between medical and care services and strive to establish Busan as a leading city in integrated care policy nationwide.”