Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine (Hubei Provincial Occupational Disease Hospital)

Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine to Benefit the People?
Introduction to Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine?

At the foot of Yellow Crane Tower and by the shore of Lingjiaohu Lake stands a modern Grade 3A hospital—Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine (Hubei Provincial Xinhua Hospital).?
Founded in 1953, Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine is a Grade 3A hospital directly under the Hubei Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission. Guided by the development strategy of "bravely scaling the heights of modern medical development, deeply exploring the great treasure house of traditional medicine, and striving to realize the dream of integrated Chinese and Western medicine innovation," after more than 60 years of construction and development, the hospital has become an innovative modern hospital of integrated Chinese and Western medicine with a complete range of disciplines, a gathering of renowned physicians, strong capabilities, exquisite technology, advanced equipment, and scientific management, integrating medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, health care, and physical examination. It is a designated hospital for provincial and municipal medical insurance and the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme.?
Integrating Chinese and Western medicine and gathering renowned physicians. The hospital currently has nearly 1,300 employees, including more than 1,100 professional and technical personnel, more than 500 with intermediate and senior titles, and more than 300 with doctoral or master's degrees. More than 20 serve as chairpersons, vice chairpersons, or standing committee members of national and provincial academic societies. Over the past decade, the hospital has undertaken nearly 70 scientific research projects at the provincial level and above. It is the affiliated hospital of Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, the School of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, and a joint training base for master's degree students.?
The hospital possesses nearly 300 sets of high-end large-scale instruments and equipment, including 64-slice 128-layer spiral CT, 1.5T ultra-strong nuclear magnetic resonance, digital large C-arm angiography machine, DR, high-grade color ultrasound, high-definition laparoscope, high-end surgical microscope, neuroelectrophysiological monitor, hyperbaric oxygen chamber, and EEG monitor. It has successively completed the construction of a series of intelligent digital hospital information platforms such as HIS, PACS, LIS, RIS, patient appointment, ward call, health management, and triage queuing, making the overall medical service process warm, convenient, and efficient.?
The hospital's annual outpatient and emergency visits reach more than 600,000, with about 30,000 discharges and around 10,000 surgeries. Its disciplines and technologies have fully entered the minimally invasive era, with nearly 5,000 endoscopic and interventional surgeries per year. The hospital carries out more than 50 new technologies and new projects each year, many of which have reached domestic and provincial advanced levels.?
Complete disciplines and distinctive features. The hospital currently has one hospital with three campuses, 38 clinical and medical technology departments, and 1,200 authorized beds. It is the hospital of the School of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine of Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, the Hubei Provincial Brain Center, the Hubei Provincial Medical Physical Examination Center, and the National Chemical Poisoning Treatment (Hubei) Base. It is also a technical cooperation hospital of Union Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and a Hubei Provincial Standardized Residency Training Base.?
The hospital adheres to the development approach of "making Western medicine strong, making Chinese medicine distinctive, and seeking innovation through integration of Chinese and Western medicine," focusing on building a hospital-level, provincial-level, and * tiered key specialty group, highlighting the integrated Chinese and Western medicine brand advantages of specialty, special disease, expert, and special technology as "four specialties" in one, actively exploring, organizing, and applying the essence of traditional medicine, continuously enriching Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment methods, and extensively carrying out characteristic Traditional Chinese Medicine services such as Chinese herbal decoction pieces, Chinese patent medicines, acupuncture, and tuina in diagnosis and treatment. At the same time, the hospital comprehensively advances the integration of Chinese and Western medicine across multiple disciplines, especially in areas where Western medicine treatment has deficiencies, by incorporating the holistic view of Traditional Chinese Medicine to achieve better treatment results. It has formed notable characteristics in integrated Chinese and Western medicine rehabilitation and integrated Chinese and Western medicine treatment of oral diseases, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, diabetes, kidney diseases, and skin diseases.?
At present, the hospital has 1 national clinical key specialty—Occupational Disease Department; 1 key specialty of the National Central Medical Service Center—Brain Center (Neurosurgery, Neurology, Rehabilitation Medicine, Spine Surgery); 9 provincial key specialties (construction units)—Encephalopathy Department, Orthopedics and Traumatology Department, Rehabilitation Department, Endocrinology Department, Clinical Pharmacy, Spleen and Stomach Disease Department, Geriatrics Department, Laboratory Department, and Nursing Discipline; 16 integrated Chinese and Western medicine characteristic construction departments—Emergency Medicine Department, Cardiovascular Disease Department (Cardiovascular Internal Medicine), Lung Disease Department (Respiratory Internal Medicine), Spleen and Stomach Disease Department (Gastroenterology), Encephalopathy Department (Neurology), Endocrinology Department, Nephrology Department (Nephrology Internal Medicine), Oncology and Hematology Department, Orthopedics and Traumatology Department (Orthopedics), Gynecology Department, Obstetrics Department, Dermatology Department, Acupuncture Department, Tuina Department, Rehabilitation Medicine Department, and Geriatrics Department.?
Connecting China and abroad, open and integrated. In recent years, the hospital has achieved fruitful results in international and domestic cooperation and foreign academic exchanges. The hospital has successively carried out in-depth technical cooperation with Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Chaoyang Hospital, and Wuhan Union Hospital.?
The hospital has established cooperation in scholar exchanges, technical collaboration, scientific research cooperation, and medical education with medical centers in France, Germany, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, and other countries. It has appointed Professor Gale, an international * spine surgery expert and former president of the North American Spine Society, as honorary professor of the hospital. It has hosted international academic conferences multiple times.?
Looking ahead, the future is bright. The hospital's Phase II project, a comprehensive inpatient building (Detai Building) more than 100 meters tall with 31 floors, has now started construction and is expected to be put into use in 2018. The Liangzi Lake Campus (Fourth Campus), planned to cover an area of more than 130 mu with 600 authorized beds, will also be completed and put into use by the end of 2017. By then, the Beihu Campus plus four branch locations will have 2,400 beds.?
The hospital will continue to uphold the hospital motto of "Virtue, Excellence, Benevolence, and Innovation," shoulder the noble mission of "promoting humanity, dedicating to medicine, and serving mankind," continuously improve the quality of medical services, and steadily advance in the * ranks of domestic integrated Chinese and Western medicine hospitals!