New Taipei City promotes the Banqiao Medical Park project. Yadong Hospital will invest 12.5 billion yuan to build a 513-bed hospital

The Banqiao Campus of New Taipei City United Hospital has old buildings and insufficient space, and the quality of medical care needs to be improved. The city government is promoting the Banqiao Medical Park project, and the medical consortium Mr. Xu Yuanzhi Medical Foundation (Yadong Memorial Hospital) won the bid. It will invest 12.5 billion yuan, including the city government investing 910 million yuan to build the hospital. It is expected to start demolition at the end of this year, with a construction period of about 5 years, to build a regional hospital with a total of 513 beds and 148 long-term care beds to expand medical capacity.

New Taipei City Mayor Hou Youyi signed a cooperation contract with Far East Group Chairman Xu Xudong today. Hou said that Banqiao District has a population of 550,000, and New Taipei City has long been subject to the control of medical distribution in the Greater Taipei Area. It has the second-lowest number of hospital beds per capita in the country. The Banqiao Campus of the Municipal United Hospital was completed in 1986, with few beds and service departments, lack of space, and old buildings. After taking office, he actively promoted the Banqiao Medical Campus project.

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Hou Youyi pointed out that the city government started administrative work in 2017, completing hospital planning and design, urban plan changes, and preparatory work for promoting participation, etc., and actively communicated and coordinated with the central and local governments. After two investment invitations, Yadong Hospital, the only medical center in Banqiao, assumed the responsibility. The investment amount is approximately 12.5 billion yuan, including 910 million yuan invested by the New Taipei City Government in the BOT plus BTO model. In the future, a hospital with a total of 513 beds and 148 long-term care beds will be built, and 616 parking spaces for cars and motorcycles will be provided to alleviate local parking needs.

Hou Youyi said that the New Taipei Second Administrative Center will be completed and opened by the end of this year. At that time, the Health Bureau and Banqiao Health Center will be relocated, and the Banqiao Medical Park can start construction and demolish the buildings. The construction period will be 5 years and 50 years, and it will be operated by Yadong Hospital. After the operation period, the city will still have priority.

Hou Youyi said that New Taipei currently has 820,000 elders over the age of 65, with an increase of about 3,000 per month. In the future, the Banqiao Medical Park will not only provide acute and critical medical services, but also include rehabilitation, long-term care and chronic disease care, as well as a dedicated maternal and child area and children's emergency department, becoming an indicator medical base in response to the changes in New Taipei's population structure.

Xu Xudong said that Banqiao is a highly diverse and rapidly growing area. The hospital architectural design must retain the flexibility to face future changes and consider the development in the next three, five or even ten years. From the planning stage, the park takes science and technology, medical care and research and development into consideration. It also needs to face up to the reality of insufficient medical manpower and make medical spaces centralized and circulation more efficient.

Qiu Guanming, president of Yadong Hospital, pointed out that the Banqiao Medical Park will build a "hospital without fences", allowing medical services to be delivered from the hospital to the community, providing full life cycle health services from health promotion, disease prevention, early screening, treatment to follow-up care. In the future, Yadong Medical Center will focus on acute, severe and difficult medical care, while Banqiao Medical Park will be responsible for daily health management, chronic disease care, preventive health care and long-term care services. The two sides will complement each other and build a complete care system.