The first tertiary specialized hospital in five new cities has been in operation for over a year: this hospital has submitted its first "transcript" for women and infants in China
"It usually takes a whole day to go to the hospital, including commuting to and from the city and waiting for medical treatment, and sometimes even arriving late. The report can only be released the next day." 58 year old Aunt Li, who lives in Nanqiao, Fengxian, needs to go to the hospital in the city for regular check ups due to health problems. The back and forth bumps of 40-50 kilometers on the road, combined with factors such as weather and age, made Aunt Li exclaim "I can't bear it.". "Not only me, but many of the neighbors around us are also elderly and have difficulty walking. We have been thinking that if a good hospital in the city can open to Fengxian, it will be much more convenient to see a doctor in the future."
In September 2022, Aunt Li's hopes finally came true. The Fengxian Campus of the International Peace Maternal and Child Health Hospital of the China Welfare Association has officially opened in one of the five new cities - Fengxian New City.
"The distance is closer and it's more convenient to see a doctor. Recently, my grandson was also born here." Speaking of the changes brought about by the hospital's opening, Aunt Li said. As the first newly established tertiary specialized hospital among the five new cities in Shanghai and a major construction project in Shanghai, the National Maternal and Child Health Fengxian Hospital has filled the "zero gap" of tertiary tertiary tertiary hospitals in Fengxian District and further improved the level of maternal and child health services in southern Shanghai, delivering high-quality maternal and child health diagnosis and treatment resources and services to the doorstep of patients.
Maternal and child based clinical practice rooted in the new city
Liu Zhiwei, Secretary of the National Women and Children's Party Committee, said that according to the "2022 Population Monitoring and Statistics Data of Shanghai", the fertility willingness of the population in Fengxian District ranks fourth in the city, with the lowest average age of first childbirth in the city -28.94 years old. There is a high demand for maternal and child health care, diagnosis and treatment.
As of now, the National Women and Infants Fengxian Hospital has admitted over 250000 outpatient and emergency patients, with nearly 17000 surgeries and nearly 4000 newborns delivered. Since the opening of the new campus, the quality and growth rate of clinical business have been improved, and the level of medical services has steadily expanded. Taking the delivery of newborns as an example, the delivery time for every thousand newborns in the new hospital area is 6 months, 3 months, and 2 months, respectively. At the same time, China Women and Children's Hospital has made significant improvements and innovations in the medical process, measures, and other aspects to enhance the patient experience, focusing on the full life cycle medical needs and health needs of the maternal and child population.
The outpatient department of the National Women and Infants Fengxian Hospital relies on a one-stop comprehensive consultation office, convenience service center, and convenience service stations in various diagnostic areas to build a multi-dimensional service system that runs through pre diagnosis, during diagnosis, and after diagnosis, achieving full coverage of outpatient convenience services in a network format, integrated, and one-stop manner. On the basis of traditional offline manual services, the one-stop convenient and beneficial service center integrates various service contents and processes required by patients through information construction. While providing convenient and high-quality services, it further achieves full coverage of convenient services for the elderly, middle-aged, and young patients. At the same time, National Women and Infants has signed deepening cooperation agreements with a number of "leaders" in the digital information field to organically integrate cutting-edge technologies across fields such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data, edge computing, and the Internet of Things, so that technological progress in the medical field can further benefit people's livelihood. The cross domain fusion applications such as the 5G+based artificial intelligence remote maternal and fetal monitoring application system and the rapid whole genome sequencing technology have successively been implemented in China's maternal and infant health.
The National Women and Infants Fengxian Hospital has also optimized and adjusted the diagnosis and treatment process and subject settings based on the characteristics of female and child disease spectrum. Since its opening, it has successively opened the first obstetric sleep disorder outpatient clinic in Shanghai and the first neonatal home care ward in a tertiary obstetrics and gynecology specialty hospital in Shanghai. It has also established and opened VIP departments, international medical departments, premature birth centers, and pelvic floor diagnosis and treatment centers to meet the medical needs of different populations. At the same time, arrangements will be made for deputy high school and above experts to participate in regular outpatient clinics, further improving the level of medical services and expanding the coverage of high-quality maternal and child medical resources, contributing to the maternal and child health cause in Shanghai, the Yangtze River Delta region, and even the whole country.
Winning People's Reputation through Public Welfare Services
As a tertiary public hospital, it not only requires excellent clinical skills to cure patients' physical pain; It is even more important to reflect the warmth and public welfare attributes of hospitals, so that more people can personally feel the importance that the Municipal Party Committee and Government attach to medical care and people's livelihood, and truly benefit from urban development. This is also in line with the original intention of Mr. Song Qingling, the founder of the hospital, to serve women and children wholeheartedly.
Since its establishment in the new city, the National Women and Children's Hospital in Fengxian has jointly signed agreements with the Fengxian District Health Commission, Women's Federation, Disabled Persons' Federation, and relevant streets, towns, communities, and enterprises and institutions to lead the construction of maternal and child health services. We carried out public welfare cancer screening and free clinic science popularization in the whole district, and established Fengxian District Women and Children Health Volunteer Service Alliance, Women's Cervical Cancer and breast cancer Prevention and Control Demonstration Base, etc. In December 2022, the first Shanghai Cooperation Organization International Peace Women and Children's Health Development Forum, guided by the National Health Commission and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, co hosted by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Good Neighborhood and Friendship Cooperation Committee and the China Welfare Association, was held in Shanghai to jointly explore and build a high-quality, integrated, and intelligent women and children's health service system.
Behind the above multiple measures, it is the expectation of China's women and children to combine regional advantages and specialized characteristics, continuously weave a dense network of maternal and child health care, and accelerate the expansion and extension of high-quality maternal and child diagnosis and treatment service resources. Currently, the country is accelerating the construction of a fertility friendly society and continuously promoting and building a high-quality maternal and child health system. During the 14th Five Year Plan period, the National Women and Children's Hospital will continue to rely on the development opportunities of the "one body, two wings" of the Xuhui Hospital and Fengxian Hospital, continue to pay attention to the comprehensive health of women and children in terms of psychology, physiology, genetics, nutrition, and other aspects, focus on improving service levels and quality, provide warm and convenient humanistic public welfare care and warm and emotional medical care services, effectively enhance the happiness, sense of gain, and sense of security of women and children, and contribute the "National Women and Children's Power" to the maternal and child health cause in Shanghai, the Yangtze River Delta region, and even the whole country.
