Yihe Hospital, Lao Cai has wanted to "seduce" her for a long time.
has been struggling and hesitating. Lao Cai is well aware that it is not easy to run a hospital in a modern society, especially the Yihe Hospital, which was once the largest single hospital in the country. Since the outbreak of the epidemic more than two years ago, expenses have continued to increase, but income has been difficult to increase.
However, some things must be faced after all. After all, only by facing the problem squarely can we solve the problem better.
▲ Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital
Some time ago, two major events happened in Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital.
The first is to lay the foundation for the second phase of the project.
The second phase is mainly focused on health care and elderly care. After completion, the hospital will have a construction area of over 450,000 square meters and a total of 3,000 beds.
Second, the hospital held a mobilization meeting and once again shouted the slogan of "creating a top three" (it was once shouted in 2020).
These two events play a decisive role in the future direction of Yihe Hospital. They are both opportunities and challenges.
Taking this opportunity, Lao Cai would like to talk about Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital. Because there is not much time left for Yihe Hospital.
Some words may not sound good.
After all, good medicine tastes bitter.
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The first hospital to try its luck
In 2003, Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital was established as a project and was the first large-scale medical institution planned and constructed in Zhengdong New District.
On June 29, 2013, the hospital officially opened!
It can be said that Lao Cai was the first media person to pay attention to Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital.
As early as 2010, when the infrastructure of Yihe Hospital was just coming out of the ground, Lao Cai published the fifth report in the series of "A comprehensive look at the difficulty in seeing a doctor" on the 12th page of " Henan Daily " on April 9, "Zhengdong New District: The headline article "Hospital Construction Faster and Faster" focuses on the construction of hospitals in Zhengdong New District and Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital. (Click to view the "Henan Daily" article ).
▲ On April 9, 2010, Lao Cai published the headline article on page 12 of "Henan Daily"
▲ In 2010, Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital was under construction
(Photo by Lao Cai, first published in "Henan Daily")
Zhengzhou Yi He Hospital is located at the northwest corner of the intersection of Pingan Avenue and Nongong South Road, Zhengdong New District, Zhengzhou City.
As the pioneer of medical facilities in Zhengdong New District, Yihe Hospital has made great contributions to the development of the Eastern District.
Time flies, 9 years have passed. For medical institutions, nine years is not a long time and is less than two five-year plans.
html In the past 29 years, Yihe Hospital has tasted all the bitterness, sourness and sweetness, and ridden a super exciting roller coaster.
- years ago, it was the largest medical institution in the country;
- The opening of the hospital was listed as one of the "Top Ten Livelihood Matters" in Zhengzhou in 2013;
- It pioneered the comprehensive management of large private hospitals by well-known public hospitals and was Zhengzhou People's Hospital overall hosting;
html Today, 29 years later, the Yihe Hospital, which has grown from youth to maturity, seems to be increasingly lacking in presence.
An in-depth analysis of Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital cannot avoid Zhengdong New District.
even said that without Zhengdong New District, there would be no Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital.
▲ Zhengdong New District (Picture source: Meet Zhengzhou)
In June 2000, The main leaders of the Henan Provincial Government proposed after a survey in Zhengzhou: The primary task currently facing Zhengzhou City is to expand the scale of the city.
On December 20 of the same year, The 11th Session of the 6th Henan Provincial Party Committee proposed that we should aim to promote Zhengzhou City to build a national regional central city, focus on vigorously developing Zhengzhou's new district construction, and enhance Zhengzhou's role in Henan Province. maintain its primacy and enhance economic strength and radiation-driven capabilities.
After a series of planning, in 2003, the development and construction of Zhengdong New Area kicked off.
In just a few years, Zhengdong New District has begun to take shape, with new communities everywhere.
However, the occupancy rate of each community is not high, and some media even called Zhengdong New District a "ghost town".
▲Zhengdong New District grew from scratch
The reason is that Zhengdong New District’s supporting facilities cannot keep up, especially the lack of large hospitals and a serious lack of medical resources. You can't even find regular clinics around many communities.
In 2010, data from the Zhengzhou Municipal Health Bureau showed that 85% of Zhengzhou’s medical service facilities were located in the old city.
High-tech Zone, Huiji District , Zhengdong New District, Economic Development Zone, etc., only account for the remaining 15%, and the distribution of medical resources is seriously uneven.
In order to alleviate the problem of medical difficulty in Zhengdong New District, Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital came.
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is married to Zhengzhou People's Hospital, ushering in the "honeymoon period"
Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital is invested and constructed by Shengrun Group. Construction started in 2006 with an investment of approximately 2 billion yuan. Due to the company's lack of core high-quality medical resources, the progress of opening clinics has been slow.
At that time, Zhengzhou People's Hospital, which was flexible in setting up hospitals, had a strong desire to expand. However, because it was located in an old city, its development space was limited, and its " expansion and reproduction " encountered a bottleneck.
I have high-quality medical resources, and you have a ready-made venue. Against this background, in December 2012, Zhengzhou People's Hospital signed an overall trusteeship agreement with Yihe Hospital, naming it "Zhengzhou People's Hospital Yihe Hospital".
The hospital adopts the model of separation of ownership and management rights. It is a non-profit public hospital led by the government. It undertakes the government's public health service functions and charges according to public hospital standards.
The marriage of the two hospitals has created a precedent for a well-known domestic public hospital to fully manage a large private hospital. At that time, this new model of public hospitals hosting private hospitals was generally favored by all sectors of society and considered a good way to achieve a win-win situation between public hospitals and social capital.
In 2013, during the "Two Sessions" in Henan Province, Wu Tianjun, then member of the Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee, went to Yihe Hospital and stayed there for more than an hour.
He made a request to Zhou Yudong, then director of Zhengzhou People's Hospital: At the end of June 2013, Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital must open clinics.
On June 29, 2013, Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital, the largest single medical institution in China, officially opened for treatment.
The "honeymoon" of Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital followed.
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The "honeymoon period" is very short.
Newlyweds all have a honeymoon period.
The same is true for the marriage of Zhengzhou People's Hospital and Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital.
Within half a year of the opening of Yihe Hospital, the total number of outpatient and emergency visits exceeded 130,000, and the number of discharges exceeded 6,000.
Such good results are inseparable from the support of the government and Zhengzhou People's Hospital.
The then executive deputy mayor of Zhengzhou City said to Zhou Yudong: The government will give you two guns, one is the gun for the market, and the other is the gun for the public institutions (units)!
In order to fully support the development of the hospital and solve a series of thorny issues such as staffing numbers, management mechanisms, and medical insurance systems, Zhengzhou City established the Zhengzhou People's Hospital Medical Group with a high degree of marketization and brought Yihe Hospital under its management.
Thanks to the efforts of many parties, the "honeymoon" of Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital was enjoyable and many good results were achieved.
During the "honeymoon" period:
- The Institute of Molecular Pathology of Charlotte Hospital affiliated with Humboldt University in Germany settled in Yihe Hospital;
- established a non-direct affiliated relationship with Henan University ;
- jointly established the "Pediatric Heart Center of Beijing Anzhen Hospital" Beijing Anzhen·Zheng Yihe Henan Cardiac Surgery Diagnosis and Treatment Center";
- and Zhengzhou Charity Federation jointly organized a charity event for the heart disease relief project;
...
However, although the "honeymoon" was sweet, it was short-lived.
In 2015, Zhengzhou People's Hospital, which had made a bit of progress, was in urgent need of "self-treatment", and the hospital's support for Yihe Hospital weakened.
In addition, as the cooperation between the two parties deepened, the concepts of "husband and wife" gradually began to diverge, and the horse spoon often touched the edge of the pot.
Later, the rift between the two hospitals became wider and wider, and they eventually "divorced" quietly.
▲The name of the hospital was changed to Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital
Although this news has not been officially announced, starting in about 2017, Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital began to release news and announcements on its own, and the name was also changed from "Zhengzhou People's Hospital Yihe Hospital" It is "Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital Affiliated to Henan University".
Three and a half years after its opening, Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital said goodbye to the public hospital and returned to its private status.
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"Foreign invaders" are coming one after another
For Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital, the "divorce" from Zhengzhou People's Hospital is a major event, and the identity positioning and future plans must be re-formulated.
I would like to say that after three years of blood transfusions at Zhengzhou People’s Hospital, even though the Yihe Hospital has not yet fully matured, there are many well-known experts who have retired from public hospitals in the hospital, so there is no problem in “fighting in the field”.
Unfortunately, the influence of Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital has declined a bit.
One of the main reasons is that Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital is developing and Zhengdong New District is also developing, especially in terms of supporting medical resources in the Eastern District.
When Yihe Hospital first opened in 2013, the medical system in Da Zhengdong was in ruins. Except for the East Campus of the Third People's Hospital of Henan Province, which was officially launched at the end of 2012, Yihe Hospital basically had no competitors.
But the good times did not last long. Zhengzhou’s development trend of “city heading eastward” quickly attracted a number of high-quality medical institutions in Henan to settle in Zhengdong New District and start operations.
In the first year of the opening of Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital, in August 2014, Zhengzhou Children's Hospital (now renamed Henan Children's Hospital) opened across the road from Yihe Hospital, covering an area of 296 acres and 1,100 beds. open.
If there is Henan Children's Hospital, don't think of the pediatric department of Yihe Hospital.
▲ Zhengzhou Children’s Hospital Zhengdong Campus
Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital opened its second year, July 2015, Henan Luoyang Orthopedic Hospital Zhengzhou Campus opened, only 6 kilometers away from Yihe Hospital.
Luoyang Osteopathic Hospital has a history of 229 years. The hospital is well-known throughout the country, and a considerable number of bone disease patients come from outside the province.
▲Henan Luoyang Orthopedic Hospital
Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital opened its third year in September 2016. The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, known as Henan's "Medical Aircraft Carrier", advanced into the East District , only 3 kilometers away from Yihe Hospital. .
As the leader in the medical field in Henan, facing Yihe Hospital, it was a bit of a dimensionality reduction blow.
▲Zhengdong Campus of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengda University
Before this, although Henan Children's Hospital and Luoyang Orthopedic Hospital were very strong, they were both specialized hospitals, while Yihe Hospital was a general hospital, so the impact was not too great.
With the emergence of the Zhengdong Campus of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengda University, Yihe's crisis has really come.
In 2017, Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital, , jointly built by Beijing Fuwai Hospital and Henan Provincial People's Hospital, opened in Baisha District, Zhengdong New District.
▲ Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital
On April 30, 2018, Zhengzhou People’s Hospital Zhengdong Campus opened for treatment, which is less than 4 kilometers away from Yihe Hospital.
▲ Zhengzhou People’s Hospital Zhengdong Campus opens clinics
Zhengzhou People’s Hospital Zhengdong Campus has a beautiful environment. Its obstetrics department, medical cosmetology department, etc. can put some private hospitals on the streets, especially the family-style delivery room, which has attracted the attention of countless pregnant mothers. .
In 2020 and 2021, Dr. Cai organized and planned two public welfare activities to find Henan’s “Three Good Obstetrics”. Zhengzhou People’s Hospital ranked among the best. In terms of hardware facilities alone, it has basically no rivals.
The above are the hospitals that have opened clinics, and there are more established tertiary hospitals , which are also targeting Dazhengdong.
These hospitals are:
- Henan Provincial People's Hospital (Economic Campus)
- Henan Cancer Hospital (Baisha Campus)
- The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University (Economic Campus)
- The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University (Green Expo Area)
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Green Expo Area)
Once these medical aircraft carriers are completed and put into use, they will surround the Yihe Hospital from the east and southeast directions, which will inevitably further compress the living space of the Yihe Hospital. .
On the other hand, private hospitals as a whole have entered a cold winter.
The "China Health Statistics Yearbook 2021" shows that 23,500 non-public medical institutions across the country lost 130 billion yuan a year, with an average loss of 5.53 million yuan each.
In Henan, many leading private hospitals have gone bankrupt.
In December 2021, the 1,800-bed Jiaozuo Tongren Hospital was auctioned as a whole, with a starting price of 380 million yuan.
Jiaozuo Tongren Hospital and Yihe Hospital are "born at the same time", both opened in 2013, and they are both the largest private medical institutions in the area.
In 2017, Jiaozuo Tongren Hospital also established a nursing home for the elderly, with an initial planned number of 2,000 beds, a total construction area of 200,000 square meters, and a planned investment of 1 billion yuan.
However, Tongren Hospital did not turn around due to health care. Instead, it fell into a debt crisis and eventually ended up being auctioned. It has been sold out and no one has bid on it.
Similarly, in January 2022, Hebi Jingli Hospital, which was once known as "Zhongyuan Medical's No. 1 Medical Stock" and was listed on the New OTC Market, was auctioned due to poor management, becoming an epitome of the rough survival of domestic private hospitals.
▲Hebi Keili Hospital
It is not only private hospitals that encounter difficulties in operation, but also public hospitals.
In 2021, Suixian Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital , which once had an annual revenue of 350 million yuan, fell into a debt crisis after investing 965 million yuan to build a new campus. It even tried to get out of the predicament by downsizing its staff, which resulted in an uproar.
However, the dangers to Yihe Hospital are not limited to "foreign troubles", but also "internal troubles". In the first half of 2021, a friend who worked at Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital found Lao Cai and talked a lot about the hospital.
His first sentence shocked Lao Cai. He said:
Yihe Hospital has not paid night shift wages for more than a year, and so far this year, the performance has not been paid in full.
In the past two years since the COVID-19 epidemic, Lao Cai knew that Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital was having a hard time, but he did not expect it to be so miserable.
At that time, Yihe Hospital had just won the title of "Best Private Hospital Employer in 2020".
The income of hospital employees is affected. In the final analysis, the number of outpatient clinics cannot increase. Without the number of outpatient clinics, the number of hospitalizations is just a fantasy.
In early July this year, when the COVID-19 epidemic had basically subsided, Lao Cai held three time periods in the afternoon of July 1 (Friday), the afternoon of July 3 (Sunday), and the morning of July 4 (Monday). We visited the outpatient clinics and outpatient flow of Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital.
Every Monday is the busiest time for medical institutions. Lao Cai went to the outpatient clinic of Yihe Hospital at 8:08 a.m. on July 4 (Monday). The waiting area was very empty.
▲ Panoramic view of the second floor of the outpatient clinic of Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital
Around 11 a.m., the electronic screen showed that the number of outpatients in most departments was still in single digits. For example, the two clinics of the Department of Otolaryngology received the 4th and 6th patients respectively. ; Department of Gastroenterology received the 6th patient. Some departments even saw only one patient.
The data on Friday afternoon and Sunday afternoon were even bleaker. Lao Cai walked around the outpatient building and found that the number of outpatient visits in most departments was in single digits.
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Opportunities and Challenges of Yihe Hospital
As the largest private general hospital in Zhengzhou City, Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital has gone through a journey of 9 years.
Zhao Zhigang, director of Yihe Hospital, once proposed a three-step strategy for the hospital to "stand up in three years, become strong in three years, and become famous in three years."
Next year will be the last year for the slogan to be fulfilled.
At this juncture, Yihe Hospital once again shouted the slogan of being a top three hospital this year (mentioned in 2020).
▲Picture source: Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital official website
In addition, the construction of the second phase of Yihe Hospital is starting, which is an opportunity and a challenge.
The second phase is mainly focused on health care and elderly care, with a construction area of more than 250,000 square meters. The above-ground part consists of 9 ward buildings and 3 medical streets, with 903 designed wards and 1,500 beds. The underground part is a 4-story garage with a total of 2996 motor vehicle parking spaces.
After the completion of Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital, the construction area will exceed 450,000 square meters and the total number of beds will reach 3,000.
Lao Cai would like to remind Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital that while becoming bigger, it must also be refined and stronger.
Sometimes, being big is not an advantage, but a burden.
After all, the break-even point is there. Without three small goals in a year, life will probably be difficult.
In summary, the time left for Zhengzhou Yihe Hospital is running out.
