Geriatric Medicine Ward V

After years of clinical experience and staff development, Ward 5 of the Geriatric Comprehensive Medicine Department has become a distinctive ward integrating medical care, teaching, research and health care. It has a highly qualified team of 19 medical and nursing staff: 9 doctors, including 3 chief physicians, 3 associate chief physicians, 2 postdoctoral fellows, 5 medical doctors and 3 medical masters. Led by Chief Physicians Zhou Ping, Pei Lichun and Wang Li and Head Nurse Lin Shuang, the team provides continuous high-quality services to retirees, provincial/municipal civil servants, basic medical-insurance beneficiaries and ordinary older patients, guided by sincerity, warmth, care and patience and supported by excellent ethics, skills, nursing and environment.

Services

The department focuses on comprehensive treatment of common and frequent diseases in older adults, difficult critical illness, end-stage multiorgan failure and geriatric multisystem disease, including functional rehabilitation. It has extensive experience in diagnosis, prevention, health care and counseling for COPD, infectious disease, hypertension, coronary heart disease, heart failure, arrhythmia, diabetes/metabolic disease, osteoporosis, cerebrovascular disease, dementia, digestive disease and urinary disease. It is a comprehensive department specialized in addressing ‘multiple diseases in one older person’ and actively promotes research and education on lifestyle-related disease.

Honors

It is a Ministry of Health collaborative base for secondary prevention of osteoporotic fractures and the only ‘trial base for osteoporosis diagnosis and quality-control standards’ in the province. It pioneered sequential bisphosphonate treatment for geriatric osteoporosis. It is a China Health Promotion Foundation training base for bone-density measurement and osteoporosis diagnosis/treatment, the chair institution of the Heilongjiang Geriatric Rehabilitation Committee, and the chair institution of the Osteoporosis Branch of the Heilongjiang Medical and Health International Exchange Promotion Association. It participates in multicenter studies including the China Fragility Fracture High-Risk Patient Management Project—Bone Strength Plan.

In recent years it has won 2 third prizes for provincial science-and-technology progress, 3 second prizes and 1 third prize from the bureau, undertaken 12 research projects (6 provincial-level or above and 8 bureau/department-level) and published more than 50 papers, including over 10 indexed by SCI.

Ward setting

There are 50 beds in a comfortable, clean, bright ward with private rooms. Facilities are arranged for older patients and include remote call, multifunctional beds, sofas, wardrobes, televisions, refrigerators and independent bathrooms with age-appropriate sanitary fixtures. ECG, respiratory, blood-pressure and oxygen-saturation monitoring, synchronized cardioversion/defibrillation, suction, infusion pumps and ECG recorders support emergency care.

Medical work follows the 12 core systems issued by the Ministry of Health, ensuring standardized, orderly and safe care. Clinical pathways are used to standardize diagnosis and treatment and uphold patient-centered, people-oriented care. Staff provide dedicated, meticulous services and receive praise from patients and families. The ward has an experienced geriatric nursing team with solid skills that delivers comprehensive, whole-process, integrated high-quality care centered on the patient.