If you have never been there, you will have no idea how many patients there are at Four Seasons Hospital.
Let me describe it this way: the train station looks like what you see on TV during the National Day and Spring Festival travel rush, and it looks like what it looks like now.
It was so busy that there were long queues at all the registration windows, and before noon, all the appointments for the day had been taken.
Chen Xia didn't dare to add an extra number. For doctors in mainland China, adding an extra number was a common thing. No matter how many patients came, the doctors had to see them all before they could leave work.
But these foreign doctors are different from Hong Kong doctors. They attach great importance to their right to rest. If you give them extra time, they will protest directly.
The registration room is busy, and the dozens of treatment areas on floors 1 to 5 are even busier.
Patients and their families came from all over the country, mixed in with onlookers, and hundreds of reporters from China and Hong Kong were among them.
If it weren't for the hundreds of college student volunteers supporting the operation today, Four Seasons Hospital would have made a fool of itself on the first day and the entire hospital would have been paralyzed.
As the dean, Lin Jiahao cannot move and must command the overall deployment at any time.
Kang Chengde, as the vice president in charge of clinical affairs, could not be moved either. On the first day of opening, there were constant clinical emergencies, and Old Kang was at the forefront.
Xuan Yongda took action. Because Pumpkin Vine was famous for treating gastroenterological diseases, the gastroenterology department had exploded. There were not enough doctors to work, so even Xuan Yongda had to work in the outpatient clinic.
Chen Chun is temporarily in charge of logistics and pharmacy. Today, the medicines are flowing out like water.
In 1991, there was no advanced automated dispensing system. Everything had to be calculated and notified manually. Wow, I'm really unlucky today.
In the end, if it weren't for the Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical Company sending hundreds of workers, more than ten trucks, and the person in charge of Yuezhou Pharmaceutical Company, they would have been able to barely cope with the first day's drug sales boom.
According to international practice, the pharmacy of Four Seasons Hospital is "managed" and is named Longfeng Pharmacy.
This is the first "Longfeng Pharmacy" opened in the mainland. In the future, prescription drugs for Four Seasons Hospital will be obtained from Longfeng Pharmacy, which theoretically has nothing to do with the hospital.
In this way, patients can purchase many chronic disease medicines, such as those for hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, cold and fever reduction, cough and diarrhea relief, etc., directly at the Longfeng Pharmacy counter.
You can buy it whenever you want without having to get a prescription from a doctor.
There is another benefit to hospital pharmacy outsourcing. In the future, when Longfeng Pharmacy opens nationwide, patients can buy medicine at any pharmacy with a prescription from Four Seasons Hospital, which is convenient for them.
It can also avoid the problem of doctors' kickbacks.
Chen Xia has already provided high enough salary and benefits, so he doesn't want the doctors to continue taking kickbacks.
This is a double-edged sword. If done well, it can promote drug sales. If done poorly, it can lead to overtreatment and affect the hospital's reputation.
In order to promote the development of "Four Seasons Hospital" and "Longfeng Pharmacy", Chen Xia has imposed restrictions on the drugs produced by Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical Company from now on.
For example, drugs for diabetes, insulin, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, etc. can only be sold exclusively and no longer sold to the outside world.
In addition, there are subsequent anti-rejection drugs for organ transplantation, targeted drugs for cancer treatment, etc., all of which are monopolized.
If you, the patient, go to other hospitals, they don't have this medicine, and you can't buy it at other pharmacies.
In addition, the exclusive monopoly of internal medicine drugs is guaranteed, and the same is true for surgery.
Laparoscopic surgery is currently only allowed to be performed in two hospitals.
One is the "Four Seasons Hospital" and the other is the "Margaret Hospital". These are two hospitals and one medical group's exclusive procedures.
In addition, Chen Xia also took out several kinds of "antibacterial drugs" that he had not taken out in large quantities before.
From common cephalosporins to floxacins, even the most powerful ones such as Tylenol, vancomycin, and tigecycline are also included.
Infectious diseases account for a considerable proportion of clinical cases, and are used for both internal medicine anti-inflammatory and surgical infection.
"Four Seasons Hospital" has solved the problem of infection. It would be strange if the clinical treatment effect is not good. This is another "trump card".
The drugs produced by the company's own pharmaceutical factory are only supplied to its own hospitals and pharmacies. This model is almost a closed loop.
What is the most profitable?
Monopoly is the most profitable, and you will make the most money if you have pricing power.
The first day of opening was bustling, but the clinic didn't become quiet until 8 o'clock in the evening.
Everyone was waiting in the conference room, waiting for today's data to be released.
It was around 10 o'clock in the evening when Dean Lin came running in. He burst into laughter as soon as he entered:
"Everyone, the statistics are out. Our hospital has seen 9,500 outpatient visits today. All 2,500 beds are currently occupied. We've earned over 300,000 RMB in registration fees alone."
This figure made Kang Chengde and Xuan Yongda's eyes widen. "How much? Over 300,000 yuan in registration fees alone?"
They were really shocked. Even at Union Hospital, the registration fee would not exceed 10,000 yuan a day in 1991.
Chen Xia smiled but said nothing. When he first set the registration fee, with the lowest being 20 yuan, generally 50 yuan, and the most expensive being 100 yuan, everyone expressed concern, especially the doctors from the mainland.
This is too radical. Such an expensive registration fee will scare away all the patients, right?
Chen Xia doesn't think so. First of all, the value of these top doctors is just this title.
Second, he needs to increase the registration fee to regulate the number of patients. People should not rush to Four Seasons Hospital just for a cold or runny nose. He wants Four Seasons Hospital to become a diagnosis and treatment center for acute, serious and rare diseases.
Of course, you say you are rich and willful, and you can spend 50 yuan to make an appointment and get a box of cold medicine, but how many people are like this?
The third one is consumer psychology.
Often, the more expensive you are, the more people trust you. When patients trust you, their compliance is better, and when patients cooperate, it's easier for doctors to treat them.
Lin Jiahao felt quite proud when he saw everyone's shocked expressions. He just liked seeing you mainlanders look so naive.
"There's another problem. There are still so many patients seeking medical treatment, and our 2,500 beds are simply not enough to accommodate them. What should we do about this? I estimate there will still be so many patients tomorrow."
Chen Xia suddenly said, "Don't talk about tomorrow. I guess this will become a normal thing at Four Seasons Hospital. Once these first patients are cured and discharged, and word of mouth spreads, the number of patients will only increase, not decrease."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone became thoughtful.
Originally, everyone thought that it was not a wise move for Chen Xia to open a hospital, because hospitals really did not make much money, and being able to balance income and expenditure was considered a great ability of the hospital director.
Like Yuezhou Hospital when it was prosperous, after a year of expenses, the surplus was not much, because the superiors took the lion's share. Otherwise, why would they rely on foreign compensation to build a building?
Even hospitals in later generations, despite having beautiful buildings and machines worth tens of millions, were all built with loans.
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