On the afternoon of November 14, a laparoscopic radical resection of the right kidney tumor was performed for a patient with renal cancer in Huangshi Aikang Hospital under Beijing Aikang Medical. The operation lasted two hours. Now, the patient has been on the way to recovery.
On November 17, a laparoscopic resection was performed for a female patient with adrenal adenoma in Huangshi Aikang Hospital. The operation only took 30 minutes, the patient's bleeding volume was only 50ml. Her blood pressure and blood potassium returned to normal level and she was able to stand and walk the next day after surgery.
On November 20, a total radical resection of bladder cancer (malignant tumor) was performed in Tongji Chibi Hospital under Beijing Aikang Medical, which was the most difficult in urological surgery. This timely operation saved the patient’s life.
Guo Jun, Vice President of Huangshi Aikang Hospital and Director & Chief Expert of Urological Surgery, successfully performed three operations concerning radical resection of urological tumors in two cities within one week.
Ongoing Operation
In the past, for such operation, patients had to go to big cities, such as “provincial capitals or Beijing”, and bear the high costs, as well as expensive consulting and diagnosis expenses while suffering a lot from the long journey. Now, Aikang Medical’s Group of Urological Surgeons has been on trial run only for one month, and many patients of its hospitals have already enjoyed the benefits brought by Group --- receiving the medical services and operations by the chief experts from Beijing Aikang Medical’s Group of Urological Surgeons without inviting external experts and “going to big cities”.
Group: Medical Resources Have Been Allocated More Rationally
“After passing 3A grading, Huangshi Aikang Hospital keeps increasing the acquisition of and investment in talents, devices and technologies. The core competitiveness of the hospital is getting stronger and stronger, which brings significantly improved medical quality, as the biggest return, to our patients. Meanwhile, the hospital’s ability to protect patients' health has also reached a new high.” When talking about frequent operations, Vice President Guo Jun said frankly, “What deserved to be mentioned is the establishment of Group of Urological Surgeons, which has injected strong momentum into the sharing of talents and the coordinated development of discipline for the urological surgery of the Group's more than 20 medical institutions.”
Dr. Guo Jun
"Change is to implement the mission and responsibility of 'patient-first' of Aikang better Li Wu’er, COO of Beijing Aikang Medical, said that the world now is full of changes. Against the backdrop of turbulent international community, rapidly changing domestic development, the medical industry sees fierce competition and the hospitals are faced with severe development challenges. If a hospital wants to go further steadily in front of complex challenges and opportunities, it has to remain true to the original aspiration, keep persistent, give positive responses and actively face up changes, seek innovation and breakthroughs to strengthen its core competitiveness and build up the brand. He believes that, the organization and establishment of doctor group are just at the right time. Upon accumulation for more than 20 years, Beijing Aikang Medical Group has more than 20 medical agencies, and the organization and establishment of doctor group have very important practical significance for and positive impact on the overall integration of talent resource sharing in the Group and deep integration among the urinary surgery fields in the Group. The Group of Urological Surgeons is a successful case and such model will be promoted in many other disciplines soon to realize the intensive, platform-based and integrated group management and discipline development.
The building of the disciplinary system of the doctors' group focuses on building regional hospitals into regional medical treatment centers, thus to enable the hospitals to be more capable and benefit more patients.
Patients: Become the Biggest Beneficiary of Management Innovation
“Thanks to the expert from Huangshi Aikang Hospital, I can receive surgery at Tongji Chibi Hospital. Without him, I would be still waiting in the big provincial hospital, waiting for examination and scheduling surgery. Treatment and surgery would be delayed, and my family members would ask for a leave to take care of me, and what’s more, a large amount of money would be spent. After leaving hospital, I must tell my medical experience to my friends and relatives, to let them know that they can choose Tongji Chibi Hospital for treatment if they get ill.” The patient Xu’s words conveyed the voice of many patients.
Although Huangshi and Chibi are not too far away from Wuhan and even Beijing from the perspective of space, in the past, high-level laparoscopic minimal invasive radical surgery cannot be performed locally and patients have to go to Wuhan, even Beijing to get hospitalization. Thus, it required more time, manpower, material resources and money, etc. If a urinary system tumor surgery is completed in local hospital, patients and their family members save not only time and effort, but also more than 50% medical and nursing costs.
Li Wu’er, COO of Beijing Aikang Medical said that in recent years, the CPC and government have vigorously advocated the grassroots acquisition of high-quality medical resources, and alleviated the “problem of expensive medical treatment” and “difficulties in getting medical service”. Beijing Aikang Medical has actively responded to the call of health department and dedicated itself to providing patients with full-cycle medical services. On one hand, after passing 3A grading, Huangshi Aikang Hospital has attracted and gathered a large number of professionally technical talents. On the other hand, the Group also maintains a close cooperation relationship with major hospitals of Wuhan, Beijing and other big cities. As long as its hospitals need help, experts and professors of these big hospitals will be on call and come to Aikang to provide patients with consultation and surgery.
Doctor: Get a Bigger Stage to Highlight Their Value
In the 21st century, talents are the most expensive. The most important resource of medicine is doctor and the quality of doctor is the core of the core. Li Wuer, COO of the Group, believed that the disciplinary building focuses on the development of talents, the comprehensive building of hospital departments and the consolidation of hospitals’ foundation. He introduced that Beijing Aikang Medical focuses on the integration of outstanding doctors. During the process of integration, doctors and experts should be enabled to play a more important role, so that doctors can devote themselves to the medical field, doing a good teaching job, thus to let doctors do what they should do.
The first step for building of the disciplinary system is to release human resources, so as to facilitate the country's grading diagnosis and treatment. The building of the disciplinary system is to let professionals do the most professional things. It also includes the practice planning of doctors, helping doctors to grow, giving full play to their strengths, and doing what they really are good at.
“If there is no such platform of doctor group, the service radius of doctors may be restricted to the patients where the hospitals are located. With such a platform, the service scope of doctors can be free from geographical restrictions.” Dr. Guo Jun has a profound interpretation on the group of doctors. “The establishment of Beijing Aikang Medical’s Group of Urological Surgeons has solved the common problems faced by many private hospitals: some hospitals having good doctors and technologies, but no patients; some hospitals having patients in need, but no suitable doctors to provide corresponding medical services. After the trial operation of the group of doctors, 'doctors can do what they are good at and patients can get the treatment they want'. To capable and experienced doctors, they have a bigger stage to realize self-fulfillment.”
Meanwhile, the group of doctors’ building of the disciplinary system is the consolidation of foundation. It not only focuses on the actual problems faced by hospitals, but also helps hospitals to improve its ability to solve problems, enables hospitals to grow up, and strives to bring a sense of professional belonging to doctors and satisfy patients. Thus, hospitals will move towards a positive development path.