01 Overall Scale

Twenty-two eventful years have been a journey through wind and rain. Located in Pinghu, Longgang, a new city in northern Shenzhen, Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Hospital Affiliated to Jinan University (formerly Shenzhen Shenlian Hospital) has, through 22 years of strenuous efforts, gradually developed into a tertiary general hospital integrating emergency care, prevention, medical treatment, rehabilitation, health care, scientific research, and teaching. It has a building area of 52,000 m² and 510 authorized beds, and operates five community health service centers and three emergency first-aid stations. Along the way, generations of hospital staff have worked tirelessly and shed their sweat, laying a solid foundation for the dream of achieving tertiary Grade A hospital status.

02 Development History

A roc rises with the wind in one day, soaring ninety thousand li into the sky. In May 2000, Shenzhen Shenlian Hospital was founded. From the outset, the hospital took “standardized operation and honest hospital management” as its tenet. It took the lead in opening a green channel for medical treatment for migrant workers from more than 200 foreign-funded and overseas Chinese-funded enterprises and more than 500 domestic-funded enterprises in the surrounding area, reduced or waived medical expenses, and provided treatment first and collected payment later for all acute and severe patients, winning patients’ praise and trust. To improve its medical technology level, in December 2009, the hospital partnered with Jinan University, a century-old university for overseas Chinese, to jointly establish Shenzhen Shenlian Hospital Affiliated to the Medical College of Jinan University, opening a brand-new chapter in the hospital’s development. In May 2010, with the approval of the Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission and the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government, the hospital was renamed Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Hospital, becoming the first non-public hospital in Shenzhen named after “Overseas Chinese.” To provide residents with more convenient medical services, the hospital actively responded to healthcare reform policies by establishing five community health centers in Bainikeng, Fucheng’ao, Liang’antian, Shangmugu, and Pinghu communities, and setting up three emergency first-aid stations at the hospital and at the Fucheng’ao and Bainikeng community health centers, proactively undertaking public health services.  

In December 2009, it was officially inaugurated as the Affiliated Hospital of the Medical College of Jinan University.

On May 16, 2010, Shenzhen Shenlian Hospital was officially renamed Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Hospital.

03 Achievements

• In 2011, the Hand Surgery Department of Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Hospital was designated by the Ministry of Health as a National Key Clinical Specialty Construction Unit.
  
  In 2012, the hospital was listed among the Top 20 Private General Hospitals in Guangdong Province for Sustainable Development Capacity, and ranked first among private general hospitals in Shenzhen in comprehensive evaluation.
  
  In 2013, the hospital was listed among the “Top 100 Private Hospitals in China.”
  In 2014, the hospital was once again rated by the Chinese Hospital Association as a “National Top 100 Demonstration Hospital Trusted by the People.”
  In 2015, the hospital was rated as the “Most Valuable Private Hospital in China.”
  In 2016, the hospital was awarded the titles of “Guangdong Overseas Chinese Philanthropic Enterprise” and “Guangdong Overseas Chinese Economic Contribution Award” by the Guangdong Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs Investment Enterprise Association.
  In 2017, the hospital was once again rated as a “National Honest and Trustworthy Private Hospital.”
  In 2018, the hospital’s Hand Surgery Department was approved as a National Key Clinical Specialty, making the hospital the first among social medical institutions in Shenzhen to have a National Key Clinical Specialty.
  In 2019, the Hand Surgery Department was rated by the Guangdong Provincial Health Commission as a “Guangdong Provincial High-Level Key Clinical Specialty”; the hospital won the title of “Top 100 Non-Public Hospitals in China” for seven consecutive years and was awarded the honorary title of “Top Ten Hospitals Enthusiastic in Public Welfare.”
  In 2020, the hospital became one of the 49 hospitals in Shenzhen with fever clinics and successfully hosted the “17th Academic Conference on Microsurgery of the Guangdong Medical Association.”
  In 2021, the hospital was awarded the title of "Advanced Unit with Grade A in the 2020 Comprehensive Emergency and First-Aid Assessment.”

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With the comprehensive improvement of talent, technology, and equipment, the hospital has sounded the clarion call for becoming a Tertiary Grade A Hospital and is striding forward toward the goal of achieving Tertiary Grade A hospital status.

04 Specialty Development

An extraordinary journey creates extraordinary achievements. Like the ceaselessly flowing sea, it has crossed torrents and dangerous shoals all the way, heading toward a broader future. At present, the hospital has 33 clinical and medical technology departments, including General Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Cardiovascular Medicine, Nephrology, Orthopedics, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Hand Surgery, Neurosurgery, General Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine, Stomatology, Medical Cosmetology, Otolaryngology, and others. In discipline development, five key disciplines have been advanced simultaneously. With Hand Surgery as the flagship, five specialties—General Surgery, Orthopedics, Gynecology, Obstetrics, and Radiology—have been developed as the hospital’s key disciplines. The hospital actively carries out new technologies and new projects, continuously improves its medical, teaching, and research capabilities, promotes discipline development, and enhances its core competitiveness. With the technical support of Jinan University, since 2015, the hospital’s Orthopedics Department has made breakthrough progress in the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis, artificial hip replacement, and other procedures, successfully treating more than 100 patients with ankylosing spondylitis. In 2018, the Gallstone Center of Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Hospital under the China Gallstone Disease Prevention and Treatment Specialty Medical Consortium was officially established.

To provide more comprehensive services for patients, the hospital is equipped with advanced medical equipment and modern laminar-flow operating rooms, including GE 1.5T superconducting MRI, Philips 64-row 128-slice CT, Philips Epiq 7C advanced cardiac color Doppler ultrasound, 4D color Doppler ultrasound, a digital subtraction angiography (DSA) system, a German laparoscope, a hysteroscopy surgical system, Olympus electronic gastroscope and colonoscope, and other advanced equipment.

05 Public Welfare

As the first hospital in Shenzhen named after “Overseas Chinese” and an overseas Chinese entrepreneurs’ public welfare and charitable enterprise, the hospital actively fulfills its social responsibilities by helping the poor and those in critical need. It has donated a cumulative total of several million yuan to disaster-stricken areas and reduced or waived more than 12 million yuan in medical expenses for impoverished people. It initiated the establishment of Shenzhen’s first “Volunteer Team Serving Overseas Chinese,” held over 100 large-scale free medical consultation events for people in overseas Chinese hometowns, and for many consecutive years organized medical teams to Malaysia to provide free medical consultations for local overseas Chinese and promote traditional Chinese medicine cultural exchanges. Since 2014, the hospital has provided medical and health services to 13 groups of elderly returned overseas Chinese from Hong Kong and Macao. Its high-quality services have been highly recognized and unanimously praised by leaders of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council and the returned overseas Chinese.

06 Service Enhancement

Adhering to the service philosophy of “putting patients at the center of everything,” the hospital has launched an online hospital, enabling online health consultation, diagnosis and treatment, medication inquiries, and health record management. It has built a “Bank-Medical · Smart + Healthcare” platform, through which patients can use smart bank-medical self-service terminals for self-service registration, outpatient payment, medical insurance payment, report inquiries, and other self-service medical services. The whole-process self-service medical care model greatly reduces the need for patients to queue and wait in the hospital, optimizes the medical treatment process, and brings patients a brand-new medical experience.

A workman must first sharpen his tools if he is to do his work well. To provide patients with a more comfortable medical environment and high-quality medical services, the hospital has built a café, added smart nursing wards, and renovated its operating rooms, ICU, delivery rooms, and other facilities. At the same time, it has strengthened education on medical ethics and professional conduct, regularly organized training for all hospital staff to improve medical quality and optimize medical services, established a Health Lecture Series, and actively given play to the leading role of Party building by organizing Party members and volunteers to participate in volunteer services and contribute to society.