Honglou Outpatient Department

Honglou Outpatient Department is located within the Honglou campus of Dongguan People's Hospital and was officially put into service on 21 April 2011. The outpatient building is three storeys high, with a total construction area of about 22,200 square meters. It has advanced facilities, a well-planned layout, a pleasant environment and spacious, comfortable surroundings. The Honglou campus of Dongguan People's Hospital has been planned and laid out using the newest international spine-type “hospital street” design concept, and the Honglou outpatient building is one of the important components of the main building complex. It stands at the front of the main building group, facing the main gate of the campus, and is connected to the medical technology building and the inpatient building by a wide hospital street, and to the medical campus by a ring road, thereby integrating outpatient care, examinations and hospitalization.

Honglou Outpatient Department is a large, modern, comprehensive outpatient department that is functional, people-centred and intelligent. It brings together emergency care, specialist and expert outpatient clinics of all disciplines, disease diagnosis and treatment centres, TCM physiotherapy, pregnancy check-ups, postpartum rehabilitation, child health care, health education, a customer service centre, a medical insurance centre, an integrated self-service centre for registration and payment, and medical services for sudden and epidemic diseases. It delivers “one-stop” outpatient services, with more than 7,600 outpatient and emergency visits per day.

Honglou Outpatient Department follows the service tenet of “convenient diagnosis and treatment, public satisfaction, patients' trust”, upholds the hospital's guiding purpose of “medical staff united in heart, caring for the community” and the hospital motto of “unremitting self-improvement, benevolence, breadth and refinement”. It strictly applies a management mechanism that takes observance of laws and regulations as its foundation, implementation of the core medical systems as its standard, the application of rules and regulations as its means, the improvement of medical quality as its goal, and public satisfaction as its requirement. Relying on advanced diagnostic and treatment equipment and technology and on highly qualified medical personnel as a strong backing, it provides high-quality, safe and satisfactory services to the general public.

Honglou Outpatient Department highlights two distinctive services. First, with specialist and expert outpatient diagnosis and treatment across all disciplines as its focus, it has a medical team of more than 1,000 renowned expert physicians and professors who have rich clinical experience, excellent medical skills and high professional ethics, and who are discipline leaders, department directors, and holders of vice-senior (associate chief) professional titles or above; the team basically covers the diagnosis and treatment needs of all categories of disease and provides patients with first-class professional medical services. Second, based on whole-process diagnostic information management services, it adopts an advanced medical card information management system and applies intelligent management to the entire course of care, including registration, diagnosis, laboratory tests, prescribing and dispensing of medicines, and related diagnosis and treatment. Diagnostic information is transmitted rapidly, accurately and reliably, effectively optimizing care procedures, ensuring the quality of care, shortening the time patients spend on care, and comprehensively raising the level of service.

About 40 specialist experts hold clinics at Honglou Outpatient Department every day. It provides the emergency department, the outpatient (emergency) intravenous admixture and infusion centre, general internal medicine, nephrology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, respiratory medicine, hepatology, rheumatology, neurology, cardiovascular medicine, medical oncology, surgical oncology, breast surgery, haematology, radiotherapy, interventional therapy, general surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, urology, neurosurgery, orthopaedic surgery (bone surgery), cardiothoracic surgery, proctology (anorectal surgery), hand surgery, pain medicine, gynaecology, obstetrics, paediatrics, child health care, otolaryngology (ENT), ophthalmology, dermatology, medical aesthetics, stomatology, traditional Chinese medicine, andrology, the hepatology specialty clinic, the infectious diseases clinic, the intestinal clinic and the fever clinic, among others, and is divided into 16 clinic zones with more than 100 expert and specialty consulting rooms. It also has ancillary functional departments, including radiology, nuclear medicine, the clinical laboratory, pathology, ultrasound imaging, the endoscopy centre, electrophysiology, the day surgery operating theatre, the outpatient blood collection room, the outpatient (emergency) intravenous admixture and infusion centre, and the Chinese and Western medicine pharmacies.

Brief introduction to the distribution of departments by floor at Honglou Outpatient Department

Level 1 (ground floor)

- Emergency Department (emergency resuscitation area, emergency ICU, emergency general ward): It has 19 resuscitation beds, 16 emergency ICU beds and 42 beds in the emergency general ward. - Paediatrics outpatient clinic: The outpatient clinic of the paediatric disease diagnosis and treatment centre has 16 consulting rooms, covering the paediatric special-needs clinic, paediatric surgery, child growth and development, the paediatric epilepsy clinic, paediatric nephrology and enuresis, paediatric respiratory/asthma, neonatology, paediatric cardiology, paediatric digestive nutrition, the child psychological counselling clinic and the general paediatrics clinic. It has 4 function rooms, including electroencephalography, pulmonary function testing and allergen testing; the nebulization treatment room will provide paediatric nebulization, and the TCM nursing clinic will provide treatments such as paediatric tuina (massage), acupoint application and “gundan” therapy. - Child Health Care Centre: It houses child health examination consulting rooms, an intellectual development room and hearing and vision screening rooms. Signature programmes of the Child Health Care Centre: child health examinations, intellectual development, vision screening, brainstem auditory evoked potential, neurobehavioral assessment, infant bone mineral density testing, transcutaneous bilirubin measurement, and disease health counselling. - Outpatient (emergency) intravenous admixture and infusion centre: It is the city's first infusion centre established strictly in accordance with the standards of the Ministry of Health's “Quality Management Standards for the Centralized Preparation of Intravenous Medications”. Patients do not need to collect and bring their own medicines; they can arrange injections directly with their medical card. The infusion centre has a comfortable environment, and injectable medicines are prepared under clean conditions, greatly reducing the probability of contamination by microorganisms, pyrogens and particles, minimizing infusion reactions and medication errors to the greatest extent, eliminating drug incompatibilities, and ensuring the safety of intravenous medication. - Infectious diseases clinic: It has several subspecialty clinics, including the infection/hepatology clinic, the mother-to-child transmission blocking “E” clinic, the hepatitis C clinic, the hepatitis B clinical cure clinic, the liver cirrhosis clinic and the HIV prevention clinic, among others. In the infection/hepatology clinic we focus on the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases such as hepatitis, providing patients with comprehensive treatment plans. The mother-to-child transmission blocking “E” clinic focuses on blocking and preventing infectious diseases transmitted from mother to child, so as to ensure the health of mothers and infants. The hepatitis C clinic, the hepatitis B clinical cure clinic and the liver cirrhosis clinic respectively provide individualized treatment services for liver diseases such as hepatitis C, hepatitis B and liver cirrhosis. The HIV prevention clinic is devoted to HIV prevention, counselling and education, helping people better understand and prevent AIDS. - Radiology: It is equipped with advanced imaging instruments and equipment, an artificial-intelligence-assisted diagnostic system and a well-developed information network system, and implements a fully information-based management model. Its main equipment includes: 9 CT scanners, among them 1 advanced ultra-fast Philips Haocke Spectral 256-slice spectral CT, 2 internationally top-of-the-line Siemens ultra-high-end SOMATOM Force dual-source CT scanners, and 2 cabin CT scanners; 5 high-field MR scanners, of which 3 are Siemens high-field 3.0T MR scanners with multi-functional imaging (including the Siemens Prisma 3.0T magnetic resonance scanner newly introduced in 2021); 5 angiography systems using large flat-panel detectors that acquire three-dimensional data directly (DSA units); and 21 CR/DR units, including 3 digital gastrointestinal units, 2 breast DR units (one of which has 3D tomosynthesis capability), 1 oral DR unit with CT capability and 6 bedside CR/DR units. The department adopts information-based management and uses the information system to store, retrieve and review patient data and images and to hold consultations and discussions on difficult cases. It also provides a “cloud film” (digital imaging film) service, allowing online viewing of images and reports of CT, MRI and X-ray examinations. - Nuclear medicine: It is equipped with large medical devices: a Siemens Biograph TruePoint 64 PET/CT, a Philips Precedence 16 dual-head variable-angle SPECT/CT, a GE NM 860 SPECT/CT, a GE PETtrace 800 high-energy cyclotron, a dual-energy X-ray bone densitometer, a technetium gas generator and a thyroid function measuring instrument, among others. - Registration and payment offices, Chinese and Western medicine pharmacies, bank and self-service centre

Level 2

- Zone 1: It houses the central general internal medicine clinic, the respiratory disease diagnosis and treatment centre, thyroid surgery, nuclear medicine, urology, nephrology, rheumatology (internal medicine), endocrinology and nutrition, and other specialties. - Obstetrics and Gynaecology Diagnosis and Treatment Centre: It houses gynaecology, obstetrics, the gynaecological operating theatre, high-risk pregnancy, fetal monitoring, the maternity school and other functional units. - Gynaecology outpatient clinic: As an important clinical department of the hospital, the gynaecology outpatient clinic has been committed to providing comprehensive, professional and individualized medical services for women. In recent years we have continuously optimized diagnostic and treatment processes and introduced advanced equipment, and have built a series of distinctive diagnosis and treatment services to meet the health needs of different women. Distinctive diagnosis and treatment programmes: 1. Hysteroscopy: applied to the diagnosis and treatment of abnormal uterine bleeding, endometrial lesions, uterine fibroids, intrauterine adhesions and infertility. It has the advantages of being minimally invasive, precise and allowing rapid recovery; it can establish a diagnosis and improve patients' symptoms within a short period of time and improve quality of life. 2. Cervical disease screening and treatment: for cervical diseases we provide cervical liquid-based cytology, HPV typing tests, colposcopy, cervical curettage and other examinations, as well as cervical loop electrosurgical excision and cervical photodynamic therapy. Through early detection and early treatment, the incidence and mortality of cervical cancer are reduced. 3. Gynaecological endocrinology diagnosis and treatment: for endocrine diseases such as irregular menstruation, polycystic ovary syndrome and hyperprolactinaemia, we provide comprehensive treatment, including medication, lifestyle adjustment and psychological counselling. 4. Comprehensive menopause management: for menopausal women we provide hormone replacement therapy, multidisciplinary comprehensive assessment and treatment, and other comprehensive management services. Through individualized treatment, menopausal symptoms are relieved and patients' quality of life is improved. 5. Dysmenorrhoea diagnosis and treatment: for patients with dysmenorrhoea we provide comprehensive assessment and timely intervention, and promptly diagnose and treat conditions such as endometriosis and adenomyosis, improving patients' quality of life and reducing the incidence of secondary infertility. 6. Prevention and treatment of female reproductive tract infections: for reproductive tract infections such as vaginitis and pelvic inflammatory disease, we carry out aetiological testing and targeted treatment, and also provide health education and preventive measures to reduce the recurrence rate of inflammation. - Obstetrics outpatient clinic: The obstetrics outpatient clinic covers the full cycle of services for women of reproductive age and includes the prenatal diagnosis centre, the pregnancy care clinic, the family planning clinic, the outpatient operating theatre, the pelvic floor rehabilitation centre and the maternity school. (1) Prenatal diagnosis centre: also called antenatal diagnosis or intrauterine diagnosis, it refers to the diagnosis of congenital defects and hereditary diseases of the fetus before birth; it is one of the effective means of avoiding the birth of fetuses with severe disabilities and an important link in the prevention of birth defects. The centre provides genetic disease counselling, screening and diagnosis, pre-pregnancy eugenic examinations, prenatal screening and prenatal diagnosis, and genetic diagnosis services for recurrent miscarriage. It performs interventional procedures such as chorionic villus sampling, amniocentesis and cordocentesis, testing the chromosomes or genes of chorionic tissue, amniotic fluid cells, cord blood and fetal tissue to determine whether the fetus will develop a severe chromosomal disease or monogenic disease, as well as intrauterine therapeutic procedures such as selective fetal reduction in the second trimester, amnioinfusion and amnioreduction, to improve the intrauterine environment of the fetus. (2) Pregnancy care clinic: it covers several subspecialties, including general obstetrics, high-risk obstetrics, the natural delivery assessment subspecialty, the placenta previa and placenta accreta subspecialty, the gestational hyperglycaemia subspecialty, and the miscarriage and preterm birth subspecialty. The pregnancy care clinic establishes a prenatal examination record for every pregnant woman and at the same time formulates an individualized examination plan to ensure comprehensive maternal and fetal monitoring. The specific services include: 1. Pregnancy care education: providing comprehensive health management knowledge such as nutritional guidance, exercise advice and self-monitoring methods, helping pregnant women achieve self-management. 2. Monitoring of fetal growth and development: through ultrasound examinations and other monitoring means, regularly assessing fetal growth, promptly detecting fetal abnormalities and taking the necessary interventions. 3. Risk factor management and complication assessment: regularly examining and promptly detecting and managing risk factors that may affect the health of the mother and fetus, providing professional medical guidance and treatment plans, preventing and managing complications that may arise during pregnancy, and ensuring the safety of mother and infant. 4. Pre-delivery condition assessment and education: covering the timing of delivery, the mode of delivery, assessment of analgesia methods and other content, helping pregnant women make full psychological and physical preparations. Through systematic services and professional guidance, the health and safety of mother and infant are ensured throughout pregnancy, and the quality of life during pregnancy is improved. (3) Family planning clinic and operating theatre: the team consists of pre-operative education nurses, anaesthesiologists, surgeons, ultrasound physicians and rehabilitation therapists. It provides outpatient surgical services such as induced abortion, diagnostic curettage, IUD insertion, IUD removal and hysterosalpingography. It receives complex family planning patients referred from across the city, such as high-risk and difficult abortions combined with internal medicine or surgical diseases, difficult IUD removal, and the diagnosis and treatment of abortion complications. It pioneered an outpatient multidisciplinary joint diagnosis and treatment model to formulate the best diagnosis and treatment plan for patients. Through optimized pre-operative preparation, the use of precise and minimally invasive surgical methods and intra-operative multimodal analgesia, the psychological and physical traumatic stress of patients is reduced. After surgery it provides electrophysiological rehabilitation treatment, nutritional guidance and follow-up assessment services, promoting rapid post-operative recovery and reducing the occurrence of complications. It provides individualized contraception and birth control counselling services, formulates scientific contraceptive methods for women of reproductive age, communicates sound contraceptive knowledge, avoids repeated abortion, and effectively protects women's reproductive health and fertility. In the national construction of PAC high-quality service hospitals, our hospital passed the assessments of “PAC High-Quality Service Hospital”, “PAC Training Base” and “PAC Long-Acting Contraception Training Base” step by step from 2019 to 2021, and was the first hospital in the Dongguan area to pass them at the first attempt for three consecutive years. (4) Pelvic floor rehabilitation centre: it has four areas, namely the pelvic floor function examination room, the pelvic floor treatment room, the pelvic-abdominal dynamics treatment room and the w a f f training area, each with a pleasant and comfortable environment. 1. Rehabilitation programmes currently offered: (1) pelvic floor muscle electromyography; (2) manual pelvic floor muscle testing; (3) biofeedback therapy; (4) electrical stimulation therapy; (5) scene reflex therapy; (6) home pelvic floor rehabilitation device training; (7) magnetic stimulation therapy; (8) vaginal laser therapy; (9) pelvic floor fascia manual therapy; (10) pelvic-abdominal dynamics therapy; (11) low-focus ultrasound therapy (for poor uterine involution and scar hyperplasia), among other treatments. 2. Diseases treated at the pelvic floor rehabilitation centre: (1) female pelvic floor dysfunction diseases (mild to moderate pelvic organ prolapse, mild to moderate stress urinary incontinence, overactive bladder syndrome, chronic pelvic pain, sexual dysfunction, faecal incontinence); (2) postpartum-related conditions (urinary retention, constipation, retained intrauterine tissue after delivery, poor uterine involution, post-surgical wound pain after delivery, scar adhesion pain, postpartum obesity, various types of obesity, abdominal wall laxity, rectus abdominis diastasis, pubic symphysis separation); (3) vulvar lichen sclerosus; (4) adjunctive treatment for infertility (thin endometrium); (5) lower limb oedema, lower limb varicose veins, vulvar oedema, and lower limb or generalized oedema after radiotherapy, among others. (5) The maternity school is an important channel and place of knowledge for mothers during pregnancy and childbirth, safeguarding the safety of mother and infant. The content of its classroom teaching includes: 1. Pregnancy: pregnancy nutrition, psychological care during pregnancy, yoga for pregnant women, self-monitoring, fetal education, care throughout pregnancy and the clinical significance of the corresponding examinations and laboratory tests at each stage. 2. Childbirth: how to recognize the precursor symptoms of labour, guidance on the admission procedure, lectures on childbirth, understanding non-pharmacological analgesia and doula delivery, and making psychological and material preparations before delivery. It advocates hospital delivery and natural delivery, and provides guidance on birth dance. 3. Postpartum: scientific confinement after childbirth, breastfeeding, newborn care, vaccination of the baby after birth, the birth certificate and other guidance. - Dermatology: It has the dermatology and venereology specialty, the dermatology specialty, the laser aesthetics specialty, the hair specialty, a mycology laboratory, a phototherapy room and a cryotherapy room, among others. Distinctive diagnosis and treatment services of the dermatology department: intense pulsed light rejuvenation (anti-ageing, skin rejuvenation), fruit acid (chemical) peeling, radiofrequency desensitization treatment, fractional laser (for pigmentation, acne scars, acne marks, etc.), 308 nm excimer laser treatment (vitiligo), Q-switched Nd:YAG laser, photodynamic therapy, dermatological surgery (excision and diagnosis of skin masses), TCM bloodletting, fire needling, acupoint injection and other treatments, microneedle treatment for hair loss, mole removal, wart removal, scar treatment, various phototherapies, liquid nitrogen cryotherapy, and biological agent treatment of severe refractory skin diseases. - Ultrasound imaging: It has advanced ultrasound instruments and equipment and a well-developed information network system, and implements a fully information-based management model. In addition to routine ultrasound examinations, it vigorously develops internationally advanced and cutting-edge ultrasound techniques and distinctive ultrasound examination programmes, including transoesophageal cardiac ultrasound, contrast-enhanced ultrasound, ultrasound elastography, all levels of prenatal ultrasound examination, fetal echocardiography, transrectal ultrasound, gastrointestinal ultrasound, interventional ultrasound ablation treatment and ultrasound fusion imaging. - Day surgery centre, endoscopy centre and electrocardiographic diagnosis centre: day surgery, hysteroscopy, gastroscopy and colonoscopy; electrocardiography and cardiac function testing.

Level 3

- Zone 2: It houses the neurology disease diagnosis and treatment centre outpatient clinic (neurosurgery, psychology), the cardiovascular disease centre outpatient clinic (cardiac and great vessel surgery), general practice, geriatrics, breast surgery, and interventional and vascular surgery, and other specialties. - Zone 3: It houses the digestive disease diagnosis and treatment centre outpatient clinic, gastroenterology, gastrointestinal surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, anorectal surgery, hernia and bariatric surgery, bone and joint surgery, spinal surgery, bone tumour surgery, paediatric orthopaedics, hand and foot microsurgery, foot and ankle surgery, and burn and plastic surgery. - Ophthalmology: It has an optometry room, a laser room, an imaging room, a treatment room and an ophthalmic operating theatre. - Otolaryngology (ENT): It has a well-equipped hearing examination room and an electronic laryngoscopy room. The equipment includes an imported Danish Ertingmei pure-tone audiometer, an acoustic immittance (tympanometry) instrument, an auditory brainstem response (ABR) instrument, an otoacoustic emission instrument, a multi-frequency steady-state instrument and an Olympus electronic nasopharyngolaryngoscope. - Medical aesthetics: It has a cosmetic and plastic surgery operating theatre, a skin aesthetics laser treatment room, an outpatient treatment and observation room and a cosmetic and plastic surgery ward. It carries out specialist services in plastic surgery, aesthetic surgery and laser aesthetics, including various plastic and aesthetic surgical operations, repair and reconstruction of body surface defects, and skin aesthetic laser treatments. - Stomatology: It houses specialized functional rooms for orthodontics, implantology, prosthodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, oral medicine, periodontology, the oral mucosa specialty, dental disease prevention, paediatric dentistry and aesthetic dentistry. - Traditional Chinese medicine: It houses TCM expert specialty consulting rooms, TCM andrology, a tuina and massage room, an acupuncture room and a TCM nursing clinic. - Pain medicine: pain clinic and treatment room. Pain medicine uses minimally invasive treatment guided by imaging (ultrasound/X-ray) as its basic treatment method, with minimally invasive interventional surgery as its distinctive feature, and adopts an integrated treatment model combining medication, physical therapy, minimally invasive treatment, interventional surgery and psychological treatment to treat all kinds of chronic pain as well as refractory and intractable pain. - Clinical laboratory: It houses a biochemistry laboratory, an immunology laboratory, a microbiology laboratory, a routine clinical examination laboratory, a molecular biology laboratory, a genetics laboratory and a radioimmunoassay laboratory. - Pathology: routine surgical pathology examination, cytopathological examination (including thyroid FNA, cytology of various body fluids, cervical liquid-based cytology screening, etc.), intraoperative rapid frozen section diagnosis, bone marrow biopsy, renal needle biopsy, special staining, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, immunofluorescence, remote consultation and autopsy, as well as related pathological examinations. It has also established modern molecular pathology technology platforms including flow cytometry, HPV-DNA testing, quantitative PCR testing, first-generation sequencing, second-generation sequencing, circulating tumour cells and flight mass spectrometry, and has developed digital pathology and artificial-intelligence pathology as part of its modern discipline development. - Neuroelectrophysiology centre: electromyography, electroencephalography, evoked potentials and transcranial Doppler.

Director of Honglou Outpatient Department: Lan Guangming, Chief Physician Deputy Director of Honglou Outpatient Department: Kang Chunhua, Chief Physician Head Nurse of Honglou Outpatient Department: Lu Miaojuan, a “zhuguan hushi” nurse Address: No. 78 Wandao Road, Wanjiang Subdistrict, Dongguan Metro route: Rail Transit Line 1 (People's Hospital Station) Enquiry telephone: 0769-28636309