Nanjing Gulou Hospital: Honoring the Heritage and Building the Future
Founded in 1892, Nanjing Gulou Hospital, is one of the earliest western medical hospitals in China. It was founded by Dr. William Edward Macklin, M.D., Disciples (Canada) Mission to China, with the assistance of Prof. Frank Eugene Meigs, the Curch of Christ (USA), and the local Nanjing community. At its early stage of establishment, the hospital took "Love, Kindness and Public Service" as its philosophy and "No prejudice to patients as the first priority", proposed by Macklin, as an aspiration. However, due to the uneven distribution of medical resources, neglect of humanities in China's medical education, among other reasons, Chinese public hospitals showed a lack of human concern over a long period of time. In 2004, the president of Gulou Hospital, Ding Yitao, took humanism as a breakthrough point, and first proposed the missing of honoring the hospital's heritage of humanism and building the best humanistic hospital. At a high level, the strategic transformation is implemented along three dimensions: building a memorial hall to honor the heritage of humanistic spirit of Gulou Hospital, launching an expansion project for the hospital that improves availability and quality of health care, as well as transforming hospital management, operation and performance evaluation that stimulate the cultural consciousness of all employees and create a humanistic hospital. Since Gulou Hospital embarked on the journal to build the best humanistic hospital in China, it has generated positive results in terms of patient attraction and satisfaction level. Gulou Hospital has become an exemplar of modern, humanistic hospital in China and received many awards. However, going forward, the hospital faces mounting challenges. How to further deepening the reform and engage all employees? Will Gulou Hospital's core competency sustain into the future and continues to enable the hospital to gain a strong foothold in the increasingly crowded healthcare market?
【書誌情報】
ページ数:15ページ
サイズ:A4
商品番号:HBSP-TU0082
発行日:2015/4/8
登録日:2015/4/16