Quality, Innovation, Sharing: the 2nd Bimonthly Shanghai Gongji Hospital Total Quality Management Forum & the Preparation Conference for Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration Hospitals’ Alliance for Development and Cooperation Held at Our Hospital

On Aug. 27, our hospital and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Gongji- Antai Hospital Total Quality Management Research Center jointly held the 2nd Bimonthly Shanghai Gongji Hospital Total Quality Management Forum & the Preparation Conference for Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration Hospitals Alliance for Development and Cooperation. Under the theme "Exploration and Practice of Hierarchical Diagnosis and Treatment Based on Regional Medical Cooperation", this forum invited leaders, experts and scholars from Shanghai Municipal People's Government, Shanghai Municipal Administration for Medical Insurance, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning, large hospitals in Shanghai and main cities in Yangtze River Delta, to have in-depth discussion and exchange on regional medical service, hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, medical cooperation in Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration, and other topics that concerned everyone.

This forum was presided over by President Wang Xingpeng. He extended a warm welcome to all leaders and experts present at the forum and introduced our exploration and practice of regional medical cooperation and hierarchical diagnosis and treatment. Cheng Jianxin, Head of the Regional Exchange Division of the Cooperation and Exchange Office of Shanghai Municipal People's Government, reviewed the process of promoting hierarchical diagnosis and treatment in China. He also analyzed the future development of regional medical cooperation and hierarchical diagnosis and treatment in China from the policy level in his opening speech. 

The forum consisted of two parts: a keynote speech corner and a round table discussion. Experts present at the forum, including Yu Hongsheng, Deputy Director of the Institute of National Economy, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; Lin Feng, Director of Zhenjiang Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning; Zhang Chao, Head of the Medical Insurance Division, Shanghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau; Liang Hong, Dean of the School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University; Sun Xiaoming, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Pudong District Commission of Health and Family Planning; Huang Dongsheng, President of Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital. They gave a wonderful speech, respectively titled "On the Integrated Development of Public Services in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration", "Integrate Resources to Build a Coherent Regional Health Service System", "Actively Give Play to the Guiding Role of Medical Insurance, Constantly Boost the Construction of Hierarchical Diagnosis and Treatment", "Family Doctors and Hierarchical Diagnosis and Treatment", "Shanghai’s Latest Developments in General Medicine" and "On the Positioning of Regional Core Hospitals Against the Background of Hierarchical Diagnosis and Treatment". In the round table discussion part, the hospital presidents and experts had in-depth exchange and discussion on each keynote speech's content and pushed the forum to the climax. In the afternoon, President Wang Xingpeng presided over the Preparation Conference for Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration Hospitals Alliance for Development and Cooperation. Huang Dongsheng, President of Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, Liu Tongzhu, Secretary of Anhui Provincial Hospital, Ha Weichao, Director of Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital, and presidents of some large hospitals in Yangtze River Delta attended the conference. All the attendees voiced support for establishing Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration Hospitals Alliance for Development and Cooperation, as well as their hope to actively facilitate technical cooperation and support, realize common progress, promote Yangtze River Delta’s regional medical cooperation and resource sharing on this platform.

The forum was well accepted and widely praised by all the leaders, experts and scholars present for sharing rich experience for the trans-regional development of hierarchical diagnosis and treatment. So far, the Bimonthly Shanghai Gongji Hospital Total Quality Management Forum has been successfully held twice. The forum always advocates "Quality, Innovation and Sharing". It aims to provide hospital management professionals with a free and concentrated platform for discussion, create a good atmosphere for communication and sharing, explore new patterns for hospital management, provide effective solutions to the key and hard problems in our hospital management reform.