Jiahe County Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital has been approved as a national standardized cardiac rehabilitation center construction unit and a national county chronic disease management center construction unit at the national level industry academic conferences on December 1.

This marks a new stage of standardized and regulated development in the field of chronic disease management for the hospital, providing a more solid medical guarantee for the health of residents in the county.

The title of the national county chronic disease management center construction unit is a full affirmation of the hospital's integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in chronic disease management.

As an important part of chronic disease management, cardiac rehabilitation is the key to improving the quality of life and reducing the risk of recurrence for patients with chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease, hypertension and heart failure.

The honor of national standardized cardiac rehabilitation center construction unit is also a national recognition of the hospital’s professional ability in the whole process management of cardiovascular disease, especially in the rehabilitation stage.

With the acceleration of population aging and the change of residents' lifestyle, chronic non-communicable diseases such as hypertension and diabetes have become major public health problems affecting the health of residents in Jiahe County, posing a severe challenge to the county medical and health service system. In response to this, the hospital, based on the core advantages of traditional Chinese

medicine, focusing on the entire process of chronic disease management, innovatively constructed a special health management system, and promoted the deep transformation of medical service concepts.

The hospital further integrated the core ideas of traditional Chinese medicine--holism and treatment based on syndrome differentiation--with modern chronic disease management concepts, and built a county-level traditional Chinese medicine characteristic chronic disease management center, providing personalized services throughout the entire process.

At the same time, regular screening services have been carried out.

In the past two years, it has conducted free stroke screening for more than 4,000 people, and electronic health records have been established for 1,571 high-risk individuals, achieving a closed-loop management of the entire process of “screening, evaluation, intervention and follow-up visits”.

Chinese source:rednet