Baiyun brings convenient medical services to citizens

A local resident receives expert outpatient service at the Baiyun branch hospital. [Photo/gywb.cn]

The Baiyun branch of Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital, the only comprehensive public hospital in Guiyang's Baiyun district, in Southwest China's Guizhou province, has integrated all of the provincial medical resources and helped residents to enjoy convenient medical services since last August.

A total of 16 experts in the fields of anesthesiology, pediatrics, cardiology and gynecology were introduced to the Baiyun branch hospital in January to take charge of clinical diagnosis and treatment, as well as hospital management.

Confronted with many challenges, the Baiyun branch hospital strives to refine management, promote medical technology and cultivate medical professionals.

This series of measures has prompted a new look: regional settings and procedures have been optimized, patients' sense of satisfaction increased by nearly 20 percent and medical workers' passions, skills and services were extensively promoted, according to Zhang Zongying, deputy director of the nursing department.

You Cuihua, a local elderly resident, completed her hospital “journey” – including registration, experts' diagnosis and treatment, and medicine pick-up – within an hour on December 21. “It is of great convenience for our household, while suffering from sickness, to have expert help right at our doorstep,” said You.

In addition to becoming Baiyun's only hospital with a no-accompanying ward for newborns, the Baiyun branch hospital also developed more than 50 businesses and technologies such as laparoscopy, hysteroscopy and choledochoscope.

The hospital's volume of patients and operations doubled from the same period last year, with referral rates decreasing considerably and the number of discharged patients increasing. Green channels have been established that link directly with exceptional hospitals for those patients who need to be referred.

In recent years, Baiyun has been working on deepening the healthcare system's reforms and perfecting medical resources and services. Currently, a series of community health centers and 16 village clinics have achieved smooth and standardized construction. Also, remote online treatment is now a feature of the district's medical system.