Profile of Hebei Yiling Hospital
Hebei Yiling Hospital was founded by academician Wu Yiling in 1992. Over 20 years of rapid development, it has become a modern and comprehensive hospital of Class III, Grade I, combining traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine. The hospital is affiliated to Hebei Medical University, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine and Hebei TCM and Western Medicine Combination Research Institute. In addition, it is a designated hospital of provincial and municipal medical insurance, provincial and municipal new rural cooperative medical system, provincial health insurance chronic disease outpatient service, employees’ health insurance in all counties of Shijiazhuang City, Shijiazhuang Railway Medical Insurance, commercial insurance, national industrial injury rehabilitation, industrial injury rehabilitation center of province, TCM Myatrophy Therapeutic Center of Hebei Province, TCM Diabetes Treatment Center and Shijiazhuang 120 Emergency Substation. Hebei Yiling Hospital has developed a way of driving the department construction and characteristic development by innovation of academic theory of traditional Chinese medicine.
Yiling Hospital has always persisted in the strategy of developing by talents and science and technology. The whole hospital has more than 700 staffs, among them, there are over 200 high-level professionals who have the titles of postdoctoral or doctor degree, master degree, professor and chief physician, and undertake the teaching task of undergraduates and postgraduates. With building area of 60,000 square meters, the hospital has 1,000 beds and 32 clinical departments. The department categories are complete, e.g. internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, gynecology and obstetrics, emergency, orthopedics, ophthalmology and otorhinolaryngology surgery, rehabilitation department and others.
As a key special hospital of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Muscle Atrophy Department is National Muscle Contraction Continued Education Base and Hebei Muscle Atrophy TCM Treatment Center. It is committed to the prevention and treatment research of motor neuron disease, myasthenia gravis, muscular dystrophy and multiple sclerosis neurology complicated disease. With firstly originating new academic concept of "extra-channel and collateral disease” for amyotrophic diagnosis and treatment, it establishes a treatment approach of “supporting extra-channel to treat the amyotrophy and motor neuron disease and myasthenia gravis, nourishing and promoting the growth of new muscle” and has developed more than 30 kinds of preparations series, which significantly ameliorate the clinical symptoms of patients and extend their lives. It has treated nearly hundreds of thousands of patients suffering muscle atrophy from more than 30 countries and regions, making a significant clinical curative effect and social benefits. Angiocardiopathy Department, a key National TCM Clinical department, researches and develops a series of medicine under the guidance of the vein theory of academician Wu Yiling to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease by combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine, especially for coronary heart disease, arrhythmia and chronic heart failure. Both manifestation and root cause of disease can be treated, and the medical features are prominent. Diabetes Department, a key one of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, raises a new concept of “to cure the diabetes mellitus from the standpoint of spleen theory” and formulates the new method of “nourishing spleen and body fluid +smoothing vein” to treat diabetes and vascular complications under the guidance of vein theory. The curative effect is remarkable. Rehabilitation Department is the first national industrial injury rehabilitation organization, and is the industrial injury rehabilitation center of Hebei Province. It explores rehabilitation methods successfully from the angle of combining traditional Chinese and western medicine, and uses advanced professional rehabilitation equipments to give full play to the advantages and characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine. The department establishes a rehabilitation mode of "modern rehabilitation + TCM characteristics + acupuncture and moxibustion therapy" and "3 in 1", which is applied to the treatment of cerebrovascular disease, infantile cerebral palsy, brain injury, spinal and spinal cord injury and carbon monoxide poisoned sequel. The recovery effect is remarkable. Rheumatism Department, a key TCM department of Hebei Province, treats the scleroderma, multiple myositis, sicca syndrome, behcet's disease, rheumatoid disease and ankylosing spondylitis by combining internal and external treatment and whole and partial therapy, and the effect is good.
The hospital undertakes more than 30 national and provincial scientific research projects, e.g. key tackling project of national "Tenth Five-Year Plan", research project of National Natural Science Fund. In addition, it successively wins 20 rewards, e.g. the second prize of national scientific and technological progress, the first prize of science and technology of China Association of Chinese Medicine, the second prize of science and technology progress of Hebei Province. The scientific research promotes the R&D of new drug, and more than 100 kinds of drugs developed independently are applied in clinic, and 9 kinds of drugs are new drugs approved by SFDA.
The hospital boasts a variety of large medical equipments, including American GE 64 spiral slice CT, American GE1.5 T nuclear magnetism, digital subtraction angiography (DSA), American general color Doppler ultrasound, high-end flat angiography machine, CR image center, ECG workstation, advanced inspection center, gastrointestinal endoscope, endoscope, arthroscopy series, modernized hundred-level purification laminar flow operating room.
At present, Hebei Yiling Hospital receives the patients from over 30 countries and regions, United States, Japan, Canada, Australia, Russia, Egypt, Argentina, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, etc.. The patients give a high praise to Yiling’s enthusiastic service and diagnosis and treatment advantage in combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine. Going the way of characteristic high-quality medical service and building a famous hospital in comprehensive development, Yiling continuously improves its medical level with innovative medical technology wins the trust of the patients with high quality service.