BEIJING: At a local level, public hospital leaders in China remain reluctant to share their best doctors. Only in August did Beijing become the first municipality to let doctors work in more than one place without permission from their boss.
“Some government-owned hospitals are hampering doctors somewhat from going outside,” Charles Elcan, president of Chinaco Healthcare Corp (CHC), said. CHC’s 500-bed hospital in the eastern city of Cixi admitted its first patient in July. “Some are very much open and support it, and some of them don’t,” added Elcan. “It’s an ongoing challenge.”
The Cixi hospital, a joint venture with local government, is operating at just a fifth of its capacity for in-patients, and is looking to recruit more doctors. CHC has invested close to $163 million in the project and is looking at other hospitals for acquisition and development.
The Trustbridge-invested hospital, known as Shanghai Jiahui International Hospital and due to be completed in 2017, planned to bring Chinese doctors from North America and use US management techniques to help reward and retain staff, said Gilbert Mudge, president of Boston-based hospital group Partners HealthCare International, which is a consultant to Jiahui…
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