A number of hospitals took off the "comprehensive" brand and smoothly transformed into integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine hospitals

Misplaced development, smooth transformation.

According to the official website of "Beijing Yanhua Hospital", with the approval of the Fangshan District Health Commission and the Beijing Municipal Medical Insurance Affairs Management Center, since January 28, the Mining Machinery Hospital in Fangshan District of Beijing has been changed from a general hospital to a hospital of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine.

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According to public information, Beijing Fangshan District Mining Machinery Hospital is the former staff hospital of China Coal Beijing Coal Mining Machinery Co., Ltd., which has been established for nearly 40 years and is a first-class general hospital. Previously, the hospital has followed the policy of divesting the main and auxiliary industries of state-owned enterprises, completed the restructuring and divestiture with the mining machinery company, and changed its name to Beijing Fangshan District Mining Machinery Hospital, which was included in the unified management of Beijing Yanhua Hospital Group.

The "Medical Think Tank" observed that in recent years, only in the Beijing area, a number of hospitals have been transformed from general hospitals to integrated Traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospitals:

On December 9, 2020, the Beijing Municipal Health Commission approved the change of Yuquan Hospital of Tsinghua University to a hospital of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine.

On August 19, 2016, Beijing Daxing District Red Star Hospital was officially approved by the Beijing Municipal Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine to be transformed and upgraded from a general hospital to a tertiary integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospital, and was renamed Daxing District Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital at the same time.

On December 17, 2015, the opening ceremony of the Tertiary Grade A Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital of Hepingli Hospital in Dongcheng District, Beijing was held.

On April 15, 2014, the Second Hospital of Chaoyang District of Beijing was officially approved by the Beijing Municipal Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine to transform into a hospital of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, which has a history of 78 years of hospitalization and embarked on a new journey towards the transformation of a tertiary integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospital.

Among them, it covers primary, secondary and tertiary hospitals, so why should some general hospitals strive to transform into integrated Traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospitals?

Successfully complete the upgrade

Beijing is very rich in medical resources and has many tertiary hospitals; and with the state clearly stipulating that the scale of public hospitals should be strictly controlled, how easy is it to be promoted to a tertiary first-class general hospital?

Speaking only of beds, according to the previous relevant policies, the starting point of the tertiary general hospital is 500, the tertiary Traditional Chinese medicine hospital has only 300 beds, and the standard of the tertiary integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine hospital is 350.

For example, before the listing of a tertiary hospital in 2015, the hospital had more than 400 beds. After the transformation, the hospital successfully became the first tertiary first-class integrated Traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospital in the district.

Of course, these hospitals have also completed the upgrade in the process of self-reinforcement.

In the process of transformation of another hospital in 2015, it expanded from "one hospital and two sites" to "one hospital and five sites", and Western medicine became a fusion of Chinese and Western medicine, and in the process of cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, The Mayo Clinic and other institutions, it comprehensively improved the scientific research ability and academic level of the hospital in the field of integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, and successfully promoted to a third-class first-class integrated Traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospital, becoming the first district-affiliated third-class hospital in Beijing.

A long road to transformation

The transformation is not casually said, it is to go through a long process of "Western learning", and then the competent department organizes an expert evaluation team to evaluate the declared construction of a hospital with integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, and gives a construction period of 3 years.

Still taking Hepingli Hospital as an example, as early as 2010-2011, the hospital made sufficient preparations, first organized 150 Western medicine doctors to participate in more than 200 hours of training and then obtained the completion certificate of the "Western Learning" training class, and organized more than 200 nurses to participate in the training of Traditional Chinese medicine nursing skills, and made the necessary talent reserves for the transformation of the hospital into a hospital of integrated Traditional Chinese and Western medicine. It was not until the end of 2015 that the hospital officially listed a new brand.

The most fundamental driving force for transformation is still the patient's appeal. According to a previous beijing evening news report, nearly one-third of the hospital's daily patients choose traditional Chinese medicine, "which shows that there is a great demand for traditional Chinese medicine from surrounding residents." Therefore, the former Dongcheng District Health Bureau allowed the transformation of Hepingli Hospital into an integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospital according to the actual situation.

Of course, there are also some hospitals that are forced to transform due to positioning.

Some public first-level and second-level hospitals in areas with rich medical resources are commonly known as "sandwich layer" hospitals. As the name suggests, although it is located in a developed area, it is sandwiched between the top three hospitals and the grass-roots county and township hospitals. It does not have the comprehensive diagnosis and treatment capabilities of large hospitals, and does not enjoy the dividends of graded diagnosis and treatment of grass-roots hospitals.

Many of these first- and second-level hospitals are very close to the third-level hospitals, and the patients are basically diverted away, making it difficult to get the approval of the masses. At the same time, they lack access to patients through "contracted services" like community hospitals. Life is not good, there are few patients, poor efficiency, it is difficult to get the attention of local governments, and some hospitals even have long-term losses.

Therefore, some hospitals must not develop well, abandon the "comprehensive" brand, and turn to the route of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine.

Source: Comprehensive Fangshan District Health Commission, Beijing Evening News, Medical Circles

Editor-in-charge: Zheng Huaju

Proofreader: Zang Hengjia

Plate making: Xue Jiao