Spotlight on the Highlights of Far East Horizon’s Measures

According to 2022 China Statistics: Public Health, by the end of 2021, there have been a total of 36,570 hospitals throughout China, among which are 11,804 public hospitals and 24,766 private hospitals. In five years, the proportion of private hospitals has increased from 60% in 2017 to 68% in 2021. China encourages the development of non-public hospitals with a series of policies and practice, including the Opinions on Promoting the Sustainable, Healthy and Standardized Development of Non-Public Hospitals in 2019, and the promulgation of the 2021 Major Task List on Deepening the Medical and Health Care System Reform and the Public Service Plan for the “14th Five-Year Plan” Period in 2021. As a major force to promote the perfection of China’s medical service system, non-public hospitals are being given more expectations.  

Quality and safety are the focuses of non-public hospitals, while disciplinary construction plays a key role in the high-quality development of private hospitals. As a large-scale platform under Far East Horizon for running non-public hospitals with social capital, Horizon Healthcare utilizes the conglomerate advantages, vigorously promotes disciplinary construction with emphasis on the five characteristic disciplines of orthopedics, rehabilitation, nephrology, oncology and consumer medicine, explores an ideal disciplinary construction mode for the development of non-public hospitals on the foundation of the “100 counties plan,” and effectively helps member hospitals to improve quality and increase efficiency while benefiting the health of the grassroots people. Following the law of the medical specialty and the operation law of enterprises, it spreads love to the medical industry with disciplinary construction and promotes the sustainable development of operation.

Based on the present

Expand and strengthen advantageous disciplines from point to area

Regarding disciplinary construction, quite a few non-public hospitals face pain points such as unclear orientation, lack of resources, inadequate management and weak development. Relying on about 30 existing holding hospitals, Horizon Healthcare breaks through the restrictions on disciplinary construction in individual hospitals, reinforces existing advantageous disciplines by fanning out from one point to all areas, and takes a crucial step towards driving the overall development of the entire hospital’s disciplinary construction.

Zhoushan Dinghai Guanghua Hospital of Zhejiang Province is a secondary special hospital with distinctive characteristics, which has joined Horizon Healthcare since 2015. Its Department of Arthropathy, Department of Rachiopathy and Department of Rehabilitation Medicine are key disciplines for construction at the municipal level. As the first hospital in Zhejiang Province to introduce the “Tian Ji” bone surgery robot, its operation mode for certain bone surgeries is among the best of Zhejiang Province. 

To provide key assistance to Nayong Xinli Hospital—another member hospital in Bijie City, Guizhou Province, Zhoushan Dinghai Guanghua Hospital dispatched experts to work full-time at Nayong Xinli Hospital for a whole year. As a result, the orthopedic diagnosis and treatment capacity of Nayong Xinli Hospital are improved comprehensively, and its disciplinary development and construction have advanced by great leaps. Nayong Xinli Hospital continues to introduce new technologies such as spine UBE, arthroscopy of knee and shoulder, etc. In particular, the artificial total knee replacement under computer-assisted navigation sets a precedent for the application of robot in clinical diagnosis and treatment in Bijie.

From January to September 2022, compared to the same period of the previous year, Nayong Xinli Hospital’s number of outpatients doubled up while the number of operations increased by nearly 40%, which is mainly attributable to needs for joint replacement and patients with spinal diseases. Therefore, the operating income of Nayong Xinli Hospital’s Department of Orthopedics achieved a year-over-year growth of more than 30% thanks to the technological support provided by Zhoushan Dinghai Guanghua Hospital. Horizon Healthcare has not only filled the blank of professional discipline in this region and benefited the local people needing high-quality medical services, but also injected a new medical force into underdeveloped areas to boost sustainable development with technology.  

The scale and characteristics of Horizon Healthcare’s construction of orthopedics are ahead of similar healthcare groups to a certain extent, and the development pathway of promoting orthopedics construction on the basis of stratification and classification is thus determined. With Zhoushan Guanghua Hospital, Huizhou Huakang Hospital and Chongqing Yudong Hospital as the flagship orthopedic hospitals, the technological development level of many member hospitals is improved tremendously through measures including three-level cultivation of talent, sharing of advantageous projects, provision of assistance to key hospitals，export of high and new technologies，and development of key specialties. In addition to Nayong Xinli Hospital, Zhoushan Dinghai Guanghua Hospital also exports its technologies to Pizhou Dongda Hospital of Jiangsu Province, while Chongqing Yudong Hospital and Huizhou Huakang Hospital are responsible for exporting technologies to 2 hospitals in Yunnan Province and 5 hospitals in Guangdong Province as paired-up partners. Meanwhile, orthopedics centers are set up in mature provinces and regions, to realize intra-regional sharing of experts and resources and coordination of advantageous projects... Step by step, Horizon Healthcare will transform “peaks” into “plateaus.”

At present, Horizon Healthcare owns 3 special orthopedics hospitals and 23 member hospitals with independent orthopedics departments, covering more than 50 orthopedics business units. It has established characteristics including minimally invasive/non-invasive surgical technology and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment surrounding the three core sub-disciplines of trauma, joints and spine, and integrated resources at home and abroad to create leading technological advantages, with 7 municipal and county-level key specialties established successfully. In 2021, the combined annual number of outpatient visits of Horizon Healthcare’s all holding hospitals exceeded 300,000 person-times, with 30,000 operations performed annually and the annual income of orthopedics departments reaching more than 700 million yuan, up by about 13% year-on-year.

Likewise, in the direction of oncology, Siping Cancer Hospital, as Horizon Healthcare’s oncology construction base and radiation center, is a special hospital characterized by in-depth introduction of multiple member hospitals to continuously help them to construct normalized, standardized and streamlined total-course cancer management through the perfection of hospital discipline development planning, special tumor technology training and MDT meetings. In the first half of 2022, the number of outpatient visits to the oncology departments of Horizon Healthcare’s member hospitals increased by almost 40%, which reflects the actual improvement of the medical service capacity of oncology.

Future oriented

Differentiated development of complementary disciplines in public hospitals

For non-public hospitals, the strengthening of disciplinary construction is the need of the sustainable development of the hospitals themselves, and also encouraged and supported by the national and local governments. Horizon Healthcare has planned a systematic layout from disciplinary orientation to disciplinary development, and concentrated its efforts on constructing a batch of advantageous and characteristic disciplines that are complementary to public hospitals, in great demand among patients and supportive of large-scale construction following the development path of “incubation base—duplication in various places” with methods including expert introduction, department planning, technological guidance and financial support. 

In recent years, due to its features including low awareness rate, high incidence rate and high mortality rate, renal disease has become of the major diseases threatening human health. The prevalence rate of chronic renal disease among Chinese adults is as high as 10.8%, and the hemodialysis department of public hospitals can hardly meet the dramatically increasing patient needs. In order to provide the vast numbers of chronic renal disease patients with standard, convenient and considerate services, Horizon Healthcare has clarified the development direction of providing high-quality hemodialysis services in the disciplinary construction of nephrology. At present, it has implemented corporative operation of disciplinary construction to graft professional resources of the industry quickly. Based on standardized medical services, leading medical devices and rigorous medical quality management, it organizes member hospitals to carry out co-construction projects through cooperation, provides professional disciplinary construction management consulting, and gradually explores the chain-construction of hemodialysis centers for renal disease. 

Healthcare is an integrated process, while rehabilitation is the “last mile” for patients to regain health. Horizon Healthcare keeps you company along the way. Relevant data shows the number of people with rehabilitation medical needs has reached 100 million in China, and this kind of terminal mainly benefits old people, chronic disease patients, people with disabilities, people with postoperative dysfunction, people with postpartum dysfunction, people with critical illness, etc. However, due to reasons such as the exclusion of rehabilitation therapy from medical insurance reimbursement, long course of disease and relatively slow therapeutic efficacy, public hospitals often cannot put in enough manpower and material resources. 

Horizon Healthcare’s disciplinary construction of rehabilitation is an effective supplement to non-public hospitals. Responding to the modern medical mode of “prevention—clinical treatment—rehabilitation,” through the unified strategic deployment of the rehabilitation medicine committee of Horizon Healthcare, it has established standard technological guidance on personnel training and standardization, and continues to improve the disciplinary connotations of rehabilitation in member hospitals. Right now, it has set up rehabilitation clinics and rehabilitation wards in 30 holding hospitals nationwide, and achieved certain improvement in aspects including rehabilitation beds, professional talent, special techniques, brand construction and operation management by empowering the hospitals through the conglomerate. Meanwhile, it is actively exploring the “rehabilitation + old-age care” service mode, to fully integrate medical, rehabilitation and old-age care resources, and further improve the health level of the regional grassroots people.

With absolute sincerity, benevolence and universal love, Horizon Healthcare continues to innovate through practice, to construct an ecosystem of the big health industry and open up the “service fence” of hospitals, which not only solves the medical needs of patients, but also satisfies the diversified and multi-layered health needs of the general public. Thus, Horizon Healthcare’s consumer medicine discipline emerges as the times require, which mainly provides medical services covering skin medical beauty, ophthalmology, stomatology, and health examination. Under the guidance of chief experts and supported by rich resources in the industry, it conducts large-scale operation with professional personnel allocation, standard operation process and information system empowerment, to fill in the gap of regular market in third-, fourth- and fifth-tier cities and counties in China. Right now, Horizon Healthcare has constructed consumer medicine discipline incubation bases in many member hospitals along the east coast and in the Chengdu-Chongqing Region. 

Siyang TCM Hospital is one of the incubation bases. In May 2021, it officially set up the Department of Medical Cosmetology, and became the only formal medical cosmetology organization established with the approval of the municipal health commission in Siyang County, Jiangsu. For over a year, its safe and professional services for public wellbeing have been recognized by “beauty lovers” in Siyang and its surrounding regions. From January to October 2022, the number of its outpatient visits doubled compared to the same period of the previous year. Due to continuously increasing local needs, this August, the Skin Medical Beauty Center of Siyang TCM Hospital with a floor area of about 900 square meters moved to a new place and officially opened for business, with domestic renowned experts in situ to see patients regularly. Its diagnosis and treatment and service projects have been improved and increased correspondingly, so as to keep pace with the pace of first-tier cities in China. Now residents of Siyang doesn’t have to travel far to enjoy medical beauty services of higher quality and a higher level. 

Group development

The "Three Ones" model is promising

Since its establishment, Horizon Healthcare has always adhered to the “three ones” innovative management mode, and strived to create “one hospital” with standard, intensive and integrated operation through “one system” and “one network.” The resulting advantages of collective hospital operation are especially prominent in the aspect of disciplinary construction. 

In addition to the above disciplinary construction practice of “one system,” guided by the information construction of “one network,” Horizon Healthcare has constructed an integrated data platform that links up all holding member hospitals, realized disciplinary construction data’s integrity, systematicness, analyzability and ability to serve as a benchmark by evaluating the local disciplinary needs scientifically, reasonably and effectively, promoting disciplinary exchanges, checking the disciplinary results, etc., and eventually guaranteed the replicability and implementability of disciplinary construction. Besides, based on information means and platforms, Horizon Healthcare has broken through the geographical limitations of member hospitals, and constructed a comprehensive remote platform through third-party pathological examination centers, testing centers and imaging centers, to reinforce expert guidance and exchange of medical techniques, and introduce quality resources to the grassroots level. 

Under the promotion of “one system” and “one network,” the construction of “one hospital” is completed successfully as the conditions are ripe. Internally, collective operation has increased bargaining power considerably compared to single hospitals, and intensive procurement of devices, medicines and consumables needed for disciplinary construction has lowered the cost of disciplinary construction greatly for hospitals. Externally, relying on the influence of Horizon Healthcare and even Far East Horizon, it gives play to a stronger resource integration capacity, to facilitate in-depth cooperation with third-party organizations and promote disciplinary cooperation and development of affiliated hospitals. 

Under the collective management mode, Horizon Healthcare is equipped with a keener disciplinary strategic insight, more comprehensive disciplinary construction resources, a more cutting-edge disciplinary construction capacity and a more effective disciplinary construction mechanism, so as to realize disciplinary construction and disciplinary improvement in an all-round way and promote the overall development and increase the economic benefit of member hospitals. 

Non-public hospitals are ushering in unprecedented historic opportunities, and the “healthy China” strategy provides a forward-looking top-level design. Horizon Healthcare has set sail towards the ocean of opportunities. Disciplinary construction requires long-term efforts, and it is especially true for non-public hospitals. Far East Horizon planted the first seed ten years ago, and now it has rooted, sprouted and flourished in China, to light up the medical ideal of benefiting the people and sustainable development. 

Health is crucial to the life of the people. Far East Horizon offers good medical services within everyone’s reach, and will always be by your side along the way.