Start from point to cover all for overall promotion——“West Lake Mode” steps into a fast development period, boosting diversified development of health and endowment

The cooperative contract signing ceremony for Zhejiang Hospital and Fuchunjiang Group (Fuchunjiang Yaoyang Elderly Hospital) is held in Fuyang on May 28. Yan Jing, Party Committee Secretary of Zhejiang Hospital and Jin Xiaoqing, Vice Director of Zhejiang Hospital attend the ceremony. After signing, Zhejiang Hospital will go into an in-depth cooperation with Fuchunjiang Yaoyang Elderly Hospital, and jointly construct a new endowment mode integrated with medical, endowment, nursing and rehabilitation, improve the service level from the fundamental-level hospitals, and make efforts in forging “Great Health” layout, and benefit more people.

Fuchunjiang Group is a national civilized unit and has invested more than 400 million yuan in public welfare undertakings. As the first non-profit private hospital in Fuyang funded by Fuchunjiang Group, Fuchunjiang Yaoyang Elderly Hospital is committed to geriatric medical and health services, better meets the actual medical and health service needs of the elderly, and provides a good platform and model to better realize the integration of medical maintenance and health. Through this strategic cooperation reached between Zhejaing Hospital and Fuchunjiang Yaoyang Elderly Hospital, the three parties will jointly dedicate to forge a new endowment institution integrated with medical, endowment, nursing and rehabilitation with advanced technology, first-rate equipment and individualized services. Give a rebirth to “West Lake Mode”, and the coverage of “medical and endowment integration” development is further enlarged.

At present, the key supporting departments have been identified as the rehabilitation medicine, geriatric medicine, TCM medicine and nursing medicine integration projects.During the cooperation period, Zhejiang Hospital will help the departments with their scientific research level, carry out new technologies and new projects every year, help the departments revise and improve the corresponding technical operation norms and procedures (SOP), and strive to improve the scientific research ability, teaching level and discipline construction results of relevant disciplines and nursing teams of local hospitals.

Grandpa Zhang says, he and his wife have visited the endowment institutions in Hangzhou. “The air here is much better than the one in the city, and it’s very convenient to commute from Fuyang to Hangzhou; it’s well-equipped with infrastructures, with high quality services and considerate nursing”.

Grandpa Zhang says, although he could walk by himself now, sooner or later there will be one day he could not walk. You cannot totally rely on your children to look after you. After admission to the endowment institution, the working staff will take care everything, and the children only need to come over once a week, and they also agree with this endowment choice.

“It’s still a big gap between the local hospitals and the big hospitals in Hangzhou. Some big troubles and emergencies they cannot handle, but now the big hospital has come for cooperation, and we will feel at ease for medical treatment in future, and we don’t need to hurry traveling to the cities for that”.

As for this, Li Tong, Director of Fuchunjiang Yaoyang International Elderly Apartment says, the cooperation with Zhejiang Hospital has more significance for the elders customers here besides the management level cooperation. "Zhejiang Hospital has a strong technical strength, which can not only guarantee the health care of daily diseases of the elderly, but also timely, effectively and properly in the treatment of critical and emergencies, but also help us improve our technology and ability.”

Yan Jing says, the key of medical and endowment integration is to properly grasp the word”combination”. It is necessary to form joint systems, mechanisms, participation forces, and scientific and technological support. Contract is signed between Zhejiang Hospital and West Lake District Government in 2017 to take over the management of West Lake District Hospital Integrated with Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine, to carry out the mode of “ward area medical entrusted management, and key support to Outpatient”. forge an organic combination integrated with community rehabilitation, medical and endowment integration and tranquil nursing, and form the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment mode of “first diagnosis at fundamental-level, two-way transfer and upward and downward linkage”, establish “West Lake Mode” and effectively integrate the nursing resources in medical institutions of medical union and communities.

For two years, Zhejiang Hospital has made continuous efforts to explore and practice in strengthening the guidance and cooperation of grassroots medical and health institutions, promoting the seamless referral system between hospital-community-family, promoting healthy aging, and the integrated management of medical maintenance and health care, Start the long-term integrated medical maintenance training project in Zhejiang Province, establish Zhejiang Geriatric Specialty Alliance and Zhejiang Hospital High-level Medical Association. The "West Lake Mode" has achieved remarkable results, more and more residents are benefiting. Nursing services extend to home care, open up the last kilometer of integrated medical and maintenance services, make the patients get good care of at a warm home, enjoy a normal family life, reduce family travel back and forth between hospitals and families.

The contract is formally executed between Zhejiang Hospital and Jiayuan Medical &Rehabilitation Group two weeks ago, through various forms of cooperation through overall management, expert consultation, green medical channels, etc., actively explore the cooperation mode with social medical care institutions, committed to creating community elderly samples, promoting the "West Lake Mode", so that the integration of medical care and health can be developed in depth.