Medical Care Center

The Department of Internal Medicine/Geriatrics of the Medical Care Center was established in 1954. It initially opened 18 beds and was primarily responsible for providing medical care and health services to leading officials and staff members of foreign embassies in China. After more than 70 years of development, the department has expanded into a Geriatric Medicine Center based at the Xicheng and Tongzhou hospital campuses, with 5 outpatient clinics, 2 dialysis rooms, 2 ancillary examination areas, 10 wards, and 200 open beds.

The Department of Internal Medicine/Geriatrics of the Medical Care Center currently has 241 employees, including 62 doctors, 178 nurses, and 1 medical technician. Among them are 11 renowned experts and 32 holders of senior professional titles. The department has more than 50,000 outpatient visits and more than 3,300 discharges annually; over 80% of inpatients are aged 70 or older. The department has 6 subspecialties: geriatric cardiovascular medicine, geriatric nephrology, geriatric respiratory medicine, infectious diseases and gastroenterology, hematology and endocrinology, and geriatric nursing; it has a green channel for geriatric emergencies and critical illnesses, a blood purification team, a cardiovascular intensive care team, and a geriatric comprehensive assessment team that has innovatively introduced information technology. The department operates specialty outpatient clinics for geriatric multimorbidity, as well as geriatric-focused outpatient clinics for home care, intravenous line maintenance, diabetes care, and other services; it has also established functional assessment areas for pulmonary function, echocardiography, ambulatory electrocardiography, ambulatory blood pressure, sleep monitoring, treadmill exercise, frailty assessment, sarcopenia screening, and other assessments.

Through the joint efforts of generations of medical and nursing personnel, the Department of Internal Medicine/Geriatrics is rapidly developing from a department focused primarily on medical care and health services into a comprehensive department integrating medical care, health care, scientific research, and teaching. The department has comprehensive capabilities in the diagnosis and treatment of common geriatric diseases, while demonstrating distinctive strengths in the diagnosis and treatment of geriatric infections complicated by multiple-organ dysfunction, perioperative management of very elderly patients, nutritional intervention and disability prevention among elderly inpatients, and other areas; it has clear advantages in treating very elderly critically ill patients with multiple comorbidities and in whole-person management by multidisciplinary teams.

The Department of Internal Medicine/Geriatrics of the Medical Care Center is not only a guardian of the health of elderly patients on the clinical front line, but also a leader and pioneer in the development of geriatrics in China. In 2013, it was approved as a National Key Clinical Specialty for Geriatric Diseases; in 2014, it was approved as a standardized training base for internal medicine and general practice residents; in 2016, it was approved as a clinical teaching base for geriatric nursing specialist nurses of the Beijing Nursing Association; in 2018, it was approved as a standardized training base for geriatric specialist physicians; in 2018 and 2021, it respectively took the lead in establishing the Geriatric Health Management Branch of the Beijing Health Management Association and the Aging Health Branch of the Beijing Society of Gerontology and Geriatric Health; in 2023, it was approved as a clinical teaching base for geriatric nursing specialist nurses of the Chinese Nursing Association; and in 2025, it became a member institution of the Xicheng District Geriatric Medicine Quality Control Center of Beijing.

The department currently has 2 doctoral supervisors and 5 master's supervisors. As a postgraduate training site for geriatrics at Capital Medical University, it plays an extremely important role in training geriatric medicine professionals. At the same time, the department has participated in formulating 12 clinical guidelines, diagnostic and treatment standards, and expert consensuses, and has hosted more than 30 national- and municipal-level continuing education courses. Over the past 10 years, the department has completed more than 40 research projects, including major projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, Beijing Natural Science Foundation projects, and Capital Medical Development Foundation projects.

The Department of Internal Medicine/Geriatrics of the Medical Care Center has a strong cultural tradition and a powerful sense of cohesion. Through the joint efforts of all medical and nursing personnel, the department has received the title of Advanced Department at the hospital level 18 times and Hospital Collective for Special Contribution 3 times; it has been recognized as an Advanced Party Branch at the bureau level 1 time and an Advanced Party Branch at the hospital level 3 times. It has also received the titles of Beijing March 8th Red-Banner Collective, Beijing Youth Civilization Unit, and Humanistic Department of the Beijing Municipal Hospital Administration Center.

The Department of Internal Medicine/Geriatrics of the Medical Care Center is a department with an excellent tradition and a glorious history. All medical and nursing personnel remain true to their original aspiration and advance courageously, continuously improving their scientific and technological innovation capabilities and enhancing the department's academic competitiveness, comprehensively raising the level of integrated and precision prevention and treatment of geriatric diseases, and working hard to build the department into a geriatric medicine center that leads domestically and is advanced internationally.