Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital (BTCH) affiliated to Tsinghua University is a non-profit comprehensive public institution jointly managed by both the Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals and Tsinghua University. During its construction, the hospital received a generous donation from the Formosa Plastics Group and Taiwan Chang Gung Memorial Hospital. The hospital is located in Tiantongyuan, Changping District in Beijing, and it officially opened on November 28th, 2014 with 1,000 beds available during the first stage of construction.The hospital became a designated National Medical Insurance hospital in November, 2015, and has been able to directly reimburse medical expenses remotely since June, 2017. The second stage of construction officially began on 30th December, 2019 with an additional 500 beds planned.On November 25, 2021, the hospital officially became an A-class designated medical institution of the city’s basic medical insurance, and medical insurance personnel in Beijing can make settlements in realtime without choosing a designated medical institution.
Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital promotes the concept of “patient-centered healthcare service, clinician-centered hospital management, employee-centered hospital development”, constructing a modern healthcare delivery system on the basis of Precision Medical Treatment, Lean Management and Empathetic Service. The hospital is committed to educating the next generation of outstanding physicians and constructing a leading healthcare technology innovation system, shaping an Academic Hospital aimed at achieving excellence in clinical care, education and research. BTCH established a ten-year development plan: Stage Ⅰ from 2014-2017, “comprehensive construction, laying foundation”; Stage Ⅱ from 2018-2020, “characteristic development, brand building”; Stage Ⅲ from 2021-2025, “superior quality, first-class achievement”.
Benefiting from the experience of Taiwan Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital has established a modern hospital management system to reduce overall operating costs and improve healthcare service and management efficiency. The hospital helps physicians focus on professional medical affairs by forming a standardized, scientific, and lean management system.
With a superior career platform, friendly work environment and generous salary structure, the hospital has gathered an excellent team of physicians from China and abroad. President Jiahong Dong is a world-renowned specialist in Hepatobiliary Pancreatic surgery and liver transplantation. He was elected Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017. The hospital implements the Attending-in-charge system and Full-Responsibility nursing model. The hospital’s leadership team aims to promote patient-centered care disease-oriented integrated medical service, continuously optimize medical procedures, and offer efficient and caring service to all patients.
Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital has established a full range of medical departments, including Internal Medicine, Surgery, Gynecology&Obstetrics and Pediatrics, Specialized Dept., Emergency and Critical Care, Medical Technical Dept. and Family Medicine Dept., adding up to 50 clinical and technical sections. It established the HepatobiliaryPancreatic Center, Organ Transplantation Center, Cardiovascular Center, Digestive Disease Center, Neuro Center and other advantageous development centers, focusing on the construction of three centers: Infectious Disease Center, Critical Care Center, and Tumor Center. Other key sections include ENT, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Urology, Rehabilitation Medicine, Orthopedics, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Dermatology, Radiology, Vascular Surgery and Ophthalmology have emerged. The hospital has developed more than 100 advanced medical technologies at home and abroad, setting multiple world records, and successfully treated a large number of complex and critically ill patients from home and abroad with advanced technology and high-quality services. BTCH has successively obtained an A+ in the national third-level public hospital performance assessment.
Learning from the experience of world-class academic hospitals and advanced medical education ideas, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital has established an integrated training system of resident physicians and specialists, and has initiated the construction of a medical education system (MD) based on organ systems. As the Doctor of Clinical Medicine (MD and PhD) degree authorization point of Tsinghua University, the hospital has successively launched the training programs for full-time professional master of clinical medicine, master of a combination of engineering with medicine, an eight-year program of outstanding physician and scientist, the outstanding clinician scholar program (4+4), full-time and part-time professional doctoral students of clinical medicine, etc. The hospital has 15 training bases for resident doctors and specialists certified by local issuing authorities. It is the training base for general Surgeons of the Royal College of Surgery, Edinburgh. The Hepatobiliary Surgery Dept. is the International Clinical Specialist Fellowship Training Center. Neurosurgery is the University of Washington neurosurgery training site. Urology has become the World Endourology Society Fellowship training base and is also approved as the European Urology Society "Set up" urology endoscopic surgery standardized training project. In December 2018, the hospital was approved as the first batch of the National Clinical Teaching and Training Demonstration Center.
Supported by the strength in science and technology advantages offered by Tsinghua University, BTCH takes solving clinical problems and meeting social health needs as its engine, and takes the combination of engineering with medicine as the breakthrough point to establish a health technology innovation system driven by clinical problems. BTCH is also the National drug and medical deviceclinical trial institution. In November 2021, BTCH was approved as the Beijing Engineering Research Center for Key Technologies of Smart Health Consortium. In September 2022, the Institute of Organ Transplantation and Bionic Medicine of Tsinghua University was established based on the hospital.
Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital has also established a complete medical social work system based on the model of Taiwan Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, with volunteers who provide warm service for patients. The hospital has founded the Beijing Tsinghua Changgung HospitalDevelopment Charity Fund and Social Service Charity Fund to develop clinical medicine and help patients in need. In response to the Healthy China strategy, BTCH holds more than one hundred public lectures and free medical consultations each year. Since 2015, BTCH has taken an active part in medical poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, sent medical practitioners to rural areas and carried out precision medical assistance. Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Telemedicine System with independent intellectual property rights was launched in September, 2017 to carry out online academic exchanges and remote consultation services.
With the value of “Compassion, Integrity, Honesty, Dedication”, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital is devoted to exploring innovative public hospital reform, providing continuous high-quality healthcare service, educating outstanding physicians, innovating clinical research, and promoting hospital internationalization. The hospital implements a development strategy of “4I”: Innovation, Integration, Internationalization and Identity, and strives to become a world-class medical center.