Chapter 2496: Competing for Recognition

"Guo Zhi Hospital will definitely get the plaque. Is it that our Guoxie can’t get it?" Chang Jiawei asked in shock.

That’s really hard to imagine. A top general hospital like Guoxie, recognized nationwide by ordinary people, actually can’t get this emergency resuscitation plaque.

For this designation, the city authorities will first have to consider the issue of regional distribution. In other words, if in a given area there are several hospitals with equally strong capacity, compared to another area that has only one hospital with merely average skills, you don’t even need to think about it—you know that average one will get a convenient slot.

Guoxie is located in the old city, not one of those newly built hospitals in the new districts. The old city has a small catchment area but many hospitals, competition is fierce.

Second, the most common emergency case in cardiovascular disease is myocardial infarction, and the first-line treatment now is PCI. Guoxie’s PCI level in the city is only slightly above average, nowhere near the top tier.

What really depressed Jin Tianyu was that what people said at the meeting wasn’t wrong. Even if Guoxie’s technical level is okay, the number of interventional cath labs is clearly insufficient, the equipment and facilities will take time to fully put in place, and the number of highly trained specialists they have doesn’t stack up well against others.

Guoxie Cardiothoracic Surgery is relatively well-known, but the problem is that now the vanguard is Cardiology, not Cardiothoracic Surgery, so how is Guoxie supposed to compete? He finally understood why Zhang Huayao had swaggered over with his people to Guoxie to watch the show. Chang Jiawei was so angry his teeth itched: "So who did they give the plaque to in our area?"

"We’re in the same district as Guo Zhi Hospital, okay?" Fu Xinheng started to doubt whether his old classmate had actually learned geography.

What’s this got to do with geography. This is basic common sense; he’d just suddenly failed to turn the corner in his head. Chang Jiawei stuck up a finger: "There’s only one designated resuscitation hospital in each zone?"

Of course it’s more than one. The city has so many hundreds of thousands of people, a single zone alone covers several million—one hospital would never be enough. The entire city has a total of thirty designated resuscitation hospitals. Within each zone there are further subzones. Strictly speaking, Guoxie isn’t competing directly with Guo Zhi Hospital; they’re not in the same subzone.

"So who were we up against, and we lost?" Chang Jiawei asked.

They didn’t exactly lose; the plaque was granted, but at the meeting they were nagged and lectured by others, as if the only reason they got it was because of the two characters "Guoxie." How could they possibly feel good hearing that.

Chang Jiawei figured it out and said he was stupid, letting his old classmate run circles around him: "Since they had you go to the meeting, there was no way they weren’t going to give you the plaque."

Hospitals that weren’t in the plan to be designated would never be called to that meeting. Meaning, the formal notice of designation had in fact long since been sent to the leadership of each hospital. This special municipal meeting wasn’t a command meeting summoning hospital leaders; it was an invitation for the most renowned technical specialists from major hospitals in the city to gather for a technical seminar.

The city needed to listen to and reference the specialized technical opinions provided by these elite doctors, to make fine adjustments and more scientifically sound arrangements for the upcoming overall planning.

At the meeting, everyone spoke freely and aired their views, so you couldn’t possibly avoid inter-hospital rivalry and direct clashes. Those satirizing and criticizing Guoxie were definitely not the officials, but their competitors.

Fu Xinheng didn’t think he was playing his old classmate; the competition he himself had to face was terrifying.

Within the same subzone, Guoxie was designated together with Beidu First and the General Hospital of the Ministry.

Uh, uh, uh. His alma mater was Beidu; Chang Jiawei knew Beidu First’s strength was nothing to sneeze at. The General Hospital of the Ministry was also a nationally famous top-tier Class A tertiary hospital.