Hangzhou Lin'an District People's Hospital

Patient-centered, Quality-focused (1) Lin'an People's Hospital in Progress. Lin'an People's Hospital was founded in 1940. Through the arduous efforts of several generations over more than sixty years and the reform and opening-up, the hospital has achieved rapid development. It currently has more than 60 clinical and medical technology departments, 600 approved beds, 650 beds actually in use, 637 staff on the payroll, 308 personnel with intermediate professional titles, and 63 with senior professional titles. It is a municipal-level general hospital integrating medical treatment, education, scientific research and prevention, with advanced equipment, complete departments and strong technical strength. At the end of 2005 it was upgraded to a Grade II Class A general hospital. In 2010, outpatient visits reached 770,000, annual inpatient admissions 22,000, and surgeries more than 9,000. Annual total operating revenue was 290 million yuan. It has been awarded titles including Zhejiang Provincial Civilized Hospital, Provincial Civilized Unit, Provincial Advanced Unit for Patriotic Health, Provincial Advanced Unit for Family Planning, National Advanced Collective for Civilized and Health Creation, and National Baby-Friendly Hospital. The hospital attaches importance to both software and hardware development and implements scientific management. It has successively established the 120 Emergency Center, Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Cardiac Care Unit (CCU), Blood Purification Center, Surgery and Anesthesiology Department, and sixteen wards including Gynecology, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Neurology, Urology, Neurology, Orthopedics (I), Orthopedics (II), General Surgery, Oncology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Minimally Invasive Center, Cardiovascular Medicine (I), Cardiovascular Medicine (II), Hematology, Medical Oncology, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Nephrology, and Infectious Diseases. There are more than 60 clinical, outpatient, medical technology, administrative and logistics departments. It possesses high-end equipment and instruments such as Siemens multi-slice spiral CT from Germany, Siemens X-ray machine, CR, Gambro hemodialysis therapy apparatus, Toshiba digital remote-controlled gastrointestinal machine, artificial kidney, electronic gastroscope, electronic colonoscope, electronic bronchoscope, video laparoscope, Philips 7500 color B-ultrasound, ATL-5000 color ultrasound, Siemens color ultrasound, Toshiba color ultrasound, hyperbaric oxygen chamber, electromagnetic extracorporeal oscillating lithotripter, German hysteroscope, photoelectric integrated colposcope, French coagulometer, hemorheology analyzer, Toshiba automated biochemical analyzer, and Swiss Roche fully automated immunoluminescence analyzer. At present, the leading position in the local area of internal medicine cardiology, gastroenterology, hematology, oncology, gynecology, obstetrics, pediatrics, and infectious diseases has been confirmed. The levels of surgery in oncology, thoracic, urology, neurology, craniocerebral, plastic surgery as well as orthopedics and anorectal surgery are all in a leading position in Lin'an. Otolaryngology, ophthalmology and stomatology have even surpassed earlier-established departments, and can carry out a series of highly difficult surgeries such as thyroid, esophageal, gastric, intestinal, hepatic lobectomy, total cystectomy, nephrectomy, lung cancer, mediastinal tumor, intracranial tumor resection, and cardiac repair, replantation of severed limbs, video laparoscopic cholecystectomy, total hysterectomy, cardiac catheterization, artificial cardiac pacemaker implantation, emergency hemostasis via electronic gastroscope, and interventional treatment of malignant tumors. In recent years, 13 scientific research projects of the hospital have passed appraisal, of which 6 have reached international and domestic advanced levels. More than 200 papers have been published, including 29*. The hospital has been awarded the title of Teaching Hospital of Higher Medical Colleges by the Provincial Education Commission and the Health Department. In recent years, the hospital has carried out bold reforms of its internal operating mechanism, being the first to launch the "patients choose doctors" measure, carrying out high-quality medical treatment and high-quality service, and closely combining medical quality and service satisfaction with the vital interests of staff; the whole hospital implements computerized management, provides duplicate outpatient lists and daily inpatient lists, and publicizes prices of commonly used drugs and treatments, creating a transparent charging environment for patients, and was awarded the title of "Model Hospital for Clearly Marked Pricing" by the Municipal Price Bureau. To create a more beautiful medical environment for patients, the hospital expanded and renovated on site. The new 22-story inpatient building, with a total area of 36,000 square meters, an investment of 150 million yuan, and a capacity of 638 beds, was put into use in March 2006. A modern hospital with a more scientific and rational layout and more high-grade services will provide more satisfactory services to the people of the whole city.