Implementing the homogeneous management of Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai Geriatric Medicine Center opens today to explore the elderly health service system
This morning, the Shanghai Geriatric Medicine Center, which is managed and operated by the Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, officially opened. The Shanghai Geriatric Medicine Center is located in Meilong Town, Minhang District, with a total construction area of approximately 130,000 square meters and an approved number of 1,000 beds so far. It is a three-level comprehensive facility built by the Shanghai Municipal Government to promote the Healthy China strategy and actively respond to the issue of population aging. Sex hospital.
The reporter learned that since the outpatient clinic of the Shanghai Geriatric Medicine Center was put into trial operation on April 24 this year, it has been operating smoothly for nearly 6 months from the initial outpatient clinics in only 8 clinical departments, and has gradually opened up to 33 departments to open outpatient clinics. In addition, in order to improve clinical efficacy and facilitate patients, the center has gradually opened 23 specialty outpatient clinics. Nearly 80 well-known experts have visited the expert outpatient clinics, and the appointment rate has reached 65%. So far, the center’s outpatient visits have exceeded 120,000. Since October, the average daily outpatient volume has reached 1,500, and the peak number of outpatient visits in a single day has exceeded 2,200.
The Shanghai Geriatric Medicine Center ward has been in trial operation since May 8 this year. From the initial two internal medicine comprehensive wards and the rehabilitation medicine ward, it has gradually opened to the current six comprehensive wards, with a total of 307 patients in 21 clinical departments. Hospital beds, including 15 intensive care beds. So far, more than 4,600 patients have been discharged, and the number of surgeries has exceeded 1,100, with nearly 80% of level 3 and 4 surgeries.
Academician Fan Jia, President of Zhongshan Hospital and President of Shanghai Geriatric Medicine Center, said: The Shanghai Geriatric Medicine Center is operated by Zhongshan Hospital using a homogeneous management model, and the main management team and clinical experts are all stationed by Zhongshan Hospital. Zhongshan Hospital is the first comprehensive national medical center construction unit and the first batch of high-quality development pilot units of public hospitals in the country. The Shanghai Geriatric Medicine Center will use its unique disciplinary positioning and location advantages to develop technological innovation, talent training, and medical care. We continue to explore and make progress in services and other aspects, and actively participate in the construction of the National Medical Center of Zhongshan Hospital.
Gu Jianying, Secretary of the Party Committee of Zhongshan Hospital, said that in response to the diverse health needs of the elderly, the Shanghai Geriatric Medicine Center will use modern technological means to promote innovation in the medical service model and integrate medical humanistic care.
The reporter walked into the outpatient area and found that the layout of the outpatient clinic area breaks the traditional layout model of separation of internal medicine, surgery, and specialist examinations, and sets the clinic area into a comprehensive diagnosis and treatment area surrounding the digestive system, blood circulation system, nervous system, reproductive and urinary system, etc. Make medical treatment more convenient for patients.
Focusing on the integration of multiple disciplines, breaking down barriers between disciplines, and promoting the integrated medical model in depth, starting from the overall clinical diagnosis and treatment of diseases, the center has also established a cardiovascular diagnosis and treatment center composed of cardiology, cardiac surgery and vascular surgery; respiratory medicine and thoracic surgery Chest disease diagnosis and treatment center in conjunction with surgery. The center has introduced various advanced diagnostic and treatment equipment such as PET-CT, SPECT-CT, MR, and hybrid operating rooms to provide a solid guarantee for the quality of medical treatment for the people.
Professor Yan Zuoqin, Vice President of Zhongshan Hospital and Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Geriatric Medicine Center, said that in the future, the center will further rely on the platform advantages of Zhongshan Hospital to extend the connotation of medical services, explore an elderly health service system that combines medical and health care, and practice age-friendliness and health. The service purpose is to continuously improve medical and service levels and contribute to the health of the elderly.
The "Double Ninth Festival" is approaching. Today, the Shanghai Geriatric Medicine Center also launched a large-scale free clinic activity "Medical care for the party, health for the people, respecting and loving the elderly, and warm love for the Double Ninth Festival". More than 50 well-known experts from 31 departments such as Zhongshan Hospital and Shanghai Geriatric Medicine Center, including cardiology, thoracic surgery, and orthopedics, conducted on-site consultations to answer patients' questions, attracting nearly a thousand citizens to come for consultation.
It is also reported that the "Shanghai Age-Friendly Health Service Alliance" jointly launched by the Shanghai Geriatric Medicine Center, Shanghai Aging Development Promotion Center, Shanghai Rehabilitation Aging Health Research Center, and Shanghai Elderly Care Service Industry Association was simultaneously established today. At the meeting, the initiative "Promoting elderly-friendly services and sharing a healthy and happy life" jointly launched by Academician Fan Jia, Academician Tang Zhaoyou, Academician Ge Junbo, Professor Gui Shixun and others was read out.
The alliance aims to integrate the resources of all parties, connect the three major service sectors of medical care, rehabilitation, and elderly care, and gradually build a service network covering the entire cycle of elderly health including prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation to meet the diverse health and elderly care needs of all types of elderly people.