Recently, the Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau released the “Announcement of the Assessment Results of Beijing Municipal Social Organizations in 2021”, and the United Foundation for China’s Health (UFCH) was rated as a 4A-level social organization in Beijing.
At the end of 2021, the Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau entrusted a professional assessment agency to carry out assessments on 314 municipal social organizations, among which there were 94 foundations rated at the 4A level, and the UFCH was in the list.
The UFCH team
On the day of the assessment, a group ofexperts conducted a comprehensive inspection on UFCH, including basic conditions, internal governance, party building, compliance with regulations and laws, and on-site interviews. At the same time, a further understanding of the foundation’s work was gained through inspections such as random checks of telephone interviews with the beneficiary groups. Through the first assessment, the experts gave a higher evaluation to UFCH. The 4A rating is an affirmation of the medical charity work of the foundation and United Family Healthcare in the past dozen years, and also marks that the construction and development of UFCH has stepped onto a new level.
Influence Life with Life. Healing Brings hope.
In one day in 2000, Ms. Roberta Lipson, the founder of United Family Healthcare (UFH), and several doctors from Beijing United Family Hospital (BJU) visited a welfare home in Jiaozuo, Henan. There, they found that a large portion of children suffered from congenital diseases, severe illnesses, or disabilities. These children need to undergo multiple surgeries or long-term rehabilitation treatments to reach a relatively stable physical condition. Therefore, Ms. Roberta Lipson hoped to establish a medical charity foundation under the Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau and help more disadvantaged people in need through the charity organization platform.
The original intention of the foundation’s establishment is to help the disadvantaged children in the welfare home when they are seeking medical treatment, can also make their medical process smooth by enjoying high-quality medical services. At the same time, UFCH takes humanity, responsibility, and the inheritance of high-quality medical services as its purpose, builds a charity platform in the field of medical and health, widely carries out helping the vulnerable groups and related publicity and popular science of health knowledge, and strives to develop and improve China’s social assistance mechanism. United Family Healthcare and its hospitals have become one of the largest backing of the foundation.
In the past few decades, United Family Hospital has insisted on fulfilling its social responsibilities and continuously provided charity outpatient services, emergency services, large-scale surgical treatments, and continuous medical services for follow-up visits after surgery for the children of the foundation, making full use of limited medical resources to assist the foundation in improving the quality of life of the assisted groups and allowing them to return to normal life.
Doctor from UFH is providing health checkup for kids in difficult.
Medical needs of the people in medical predicaments are complex and long, but UFCH insists on regularly organizing the medical staff of United Family Hospitals to go out of the hospital and into the community, so that more people in difficult can have the opportunity and channel to receive precise medical care. From vaccine injections, nutritional support to outpatient treatment and various inpatient surgeries, from one child, one welfare home to the scope of rescue covering more than 50 social organizations, non-governmental organizations and other across the country, UFCH has invested more and more medical resources, and the medical volunteer team has gradually become stronger. Everyone contribute silently, and insists on sharing the mission of health and precise medical assistance through the charity platform of UFCH. Under the guidance of the professional team of the foundation, the charity work is carried out with high quality.
Pediatric Surgery Dr. Zhang Qinming and a team of nurses is celebrating the birthday of children who are challenging the disease.
When it comes to the original intention of the establishment of UFCH, Ms. Roberta Lipson said, “The intension of many medical staff engage in this profession is because they hope to help others and reduce the pain of patients. Although the work of the foundation will take up a lot of the spare time of United Family medical staff. But since we have seen it, we should not give up every life.”
And these weak lives are also giving back to the volunteers of UFH in wonderful ways. Dr. Fang Yuting, a medical doctor of the United Family General Medical Center, said, “I saw many letters for help written with blood and tears. These children let me see the appeal and resilience of life in extreme environments, and also made me more reverent towards life and full of a sense of mission for the identity of a doctor.” She thanked the charity platform provided by Beijing United Family Medical Assistance Foundation, which allowed her to have the opportunity to do her bit for these children.
After the establishment of UFCH, United Family Medical is the largest donor of the foundation, donating a portion of its annual income each year for medical assistance to fulfill corporate responsibility. As of the end of 2021, UFCH has successively established programs such as “Children’s Care”, “Health Care for All”, “Wheel for Life”, and “Health Education Popular Science”. So far, United Family Medical has donated 180 million worth of medical services, provided 20,000+ charity outpatient visits, 1,000+ inpatient treatments, and more than 400+ surgeries. All the medical staff of UFH have the heart of provide high-quality medical services for disadvantaged groups, and carry forward the goodness of “the kindness of doctors” towards the good.
Medical Empowerment and Improve Relief Efficiency
In response to the call of the President Xi for poverty alleviation, since 2017, UFCH has begun to explore the sustainable model of innovative medical relief to enhance the ability and efficiency of medical relief. It provides charity medical training to help improve the medical service capacity in rural areas, and is also committed to reaching the “last mile” of medical poverty alleviation.
– Mobile Clinic is the “heart” of UFCH
As an extension of the Child’s Care and Wheel for Life programs, UFCH has cooperated with social organizations across the country to carry out the medical aid empowerment program. With the help of UFH resources, the Foundation has helped social workers working in the front line in various regions to popularize the knowledge and practice in the field of health care, and implemented the spirit of the 19th National Congress. Do real health poverty alleviation work, and assist the government to enable front-line workers to better provide accurate, innovative and integrated high-treatment medical care services for needy groups.
In 2018, based on social needs, UFCH also launched the AHA First Aid and resuscitation basic skills training program. With the support of donors, the beneficiaries expanded from welfare homes and other institutions to migrant children’s school teachers and students, floating population, residents in poor areas and social volunteers.
UFH’s medical experts working on the “mobile clinic”.
The Mobile Clinic has become the ” heart” of UFCH. Since its inception in November 2015, under the leadership of the Foundation team, UFH medical team have traveled more than 100,000 kilometers in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia and Yunnan to reach the “last mile” of high-quality medical services for needy groups. In recent years, UFCH has actively cooperated with local health committees to drive mobile clinic into rural areas to provide free HPV and breast cancer screening for local women. We use innovative models to care for women’s health and help the high-quality development of Chinese families. As of today, the number of charity screening provided by the Foundation has exceeded 13,000.
– Care for the health of women in remote areas, and assist “China’s health poverty alleviation”-
– The line that has been waiting for screening since the early hours of the morning –
At the same time, in the face of public health events and natural disasters in the past two years, UFH has fully supported the UFCH by contributing limited medical resources and materials, so the foundation has never been absent in the face of major disasters and actively participated in disaster relief. At the same time, UFH assists the UFCH by timely funding the green channel of online consultation service in Internet hospitals, helping foundation employees to go to the front line to provide remote medical consultation services for the affected people in the disaster areas and epidemic areas in the first time.
in the past 11 years, UFCH has been exploring and implementing the Implementation Plan of the Three-year Health Poverty Alleviation Action, and contribute to the “Health poverty alleviation” and “Healthy China strategy” by using the limited resources donated by UFH and social enterprises. At the same time, the foundation will continue its original mission, under the high-quality services of UFH, hoping to give every recipient who has been impoverished due to illness or has returned to poverty due to illness to regain hope and believe in the power of life.
The medical equipment in the mobile clinic.
– Volunteers to support the Henan flood-
At the same time, the foundation will continue to provide health public science and other services for frontline personnel with insufficient medical and health resources in various regions, promote the culture and spirit of UFH, launch mobile clinics, and insist on carrying out “effective” charity events based on the needs of beneficiary groups under the trust and guidance of the government, caring enterprises, and social organizations, deliver positive energy.
The 4A-level foundation is a full trust in the charity cause of UFCH, and it is also a recognition of the practice of UFH social responsibility and an affirmation of giving back to the society with true feelings.
