Suzhou Kowloon Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine is a Sino-foreign joint venture hospital, which was founded in March 2003 by Hong Kong Kowloon Group with an investment of CNY 1.35 billion and upon the approval of Ministry of Health and Ministry of Commerce, and is subject to the cooperative management of Kowloon Group and Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine. This hospital is a level-3 hospital recognized by the Department of Health of Jiangsu Province, a key construction project of public utilities in Suzhou Industrial Park, a designated unit of medical insurance in Suzhou city and a non-local treatment unit of medical insurance in Jiangsu province.
The hospital is located by the beautiful Jinji Lake of Suzhou Industrial Park where foreign merchants gather and economy booms. It covers an area of 113,000 m2. The 1st period project has a construction area of 213,000 m2 and provides 2000 open beds; The whole hospital sets up 36clinical departments, 12 medical laboratories, 22 wards, as well as an independent VIP outpatient section and ward. The hospital is equipped with 640-slice CT machine, 64-slice CT machine, PET-CT, linear accelerator and other modern high-grade , precision and advanced diagnostic equipments.
The hospital formally opened in January 2006, and has enjoyed an average annual growth of 30% in business volume. In 2019, the yearly total number of visits reached 1.35 million, the number of discharged patients reached 46,639, and 19,570 operations were performed. The indexes of per capita charge for outpatient service, per capita charge for inpatient service, and drug cost ratio were controlled below the average value of level-3 hospitals across the country.
The hospital currently has 1916 employees in all, including 1456 health workers, 206 senior professional title holders and nearly 60% of physicians holding master’s degrees and above. More than 20 experts, doctoral tutors and master’s tutors are entitled to the special allowance by State Council. All discipline leaders are either famous professors or young and energetic experts from affiliated hospitals of higher institution of medicine and class-3 hospitals in Shanghai and all regions throughout the country. They have superb medical skills and rich experience, and can meet all complicated and diversified requirements of diagnosis and treatment. The board of directors sets up a 20-million special fund for talent construction for the purpose of introducing, cultivating and attracting excellent talents.
The hospital insists on the all patient-centered principle, integrates the advantages of talents, technologies and facilities, and makes efforts to promote the discipline construction and development. The departments of cardiology, neurosurgery, radiology and oncology have been rated as the key clinical specialties of Suzhou city, among which the departments of cardiology and neurosurgery are the construction units of key clinical specialties in Jiangsu province. In December 2014, the hospital’s chest pain center passed the attestation of China Chest Pain Center and became the first national-level chest pain center of Suzhou city as well as one of the first batch of national-level chest pain centers of Jiangsu province.
The hospital sets up a postdoctoral workstation and a central lab to provide a platform for experts and scholars in clinical practice, scientific research and teaching. It is a teaching and practice hospital for Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Jiangsu University, Soochow University and Xuzhou Medical College. It is the base of standardized training for resident physicians of Jiangsu province, as well as the base of standardized training for general medical practitioners. Seven specialties have passed the examination and evaluation of clinical drug trial institution by State Pharmaceutical Administration. The hospital has received over 50 programmes and projects of Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Health and Project 973, Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, and municipal-level scientific research tasks, etc., and published 921 papers including 130 SCI papers.
The hospital pays high attention to the construction of medical morality and culture, is enthusiastic in public welfare and takes the initiative to assume social responsibilities. It has been rated as the designated hospital by Rotary International, China Charity Federation and Charity Federation of Jiangsu Province. It has been ranked among the “Hundreds of National Model Reliable Hospitals for Common People”. The hospital has been granted with more than 20 honors by related provincial and municipal organs successively, such as “Star Overseas Chinese Enterprise of Jiangsu Province”, “Civilized Unit in Suzhou Health System”, “Civilized Unit of Suzhou Industrial Park”, and “Pilot Site of New Social Organization for Party Construction in Suzhou”.
Since its opening, the hospital has received the inspection of many central, ministerial or provincial-level leaders including Li Yuanchao, Chen Zhu, Zhang Mao, Liang Baohua, Li Haifeng, Qiu Yuanping, Wang Rong, Jiang Hongkun, Shi Taifeng, Shen Xiaoming, Lei Yulan, etc. The former minister of health, Chen Zhu, highly praised Kowloon Hospital as “a flag among comprehensive private hospitals” when he inspected this hospital.