Project HOPE in China
Project HOPE is urgently working to respond to immediate and long-term health needs caused by the devastating loss of life and the destruction that has impacted Asia over the past month. Our long-term relationship with the people of China, where we have had staff and programs for 25 years makes us uniquely able to respond to the massive earthquake with both urgent humanitarian aid...and longer-term assistance, as warranted. Learn More about our relief efforts in China
 Wuhan University School of Nursing – Project HOPE is working towards transforming the nursing image at Wuhan University School of Medicine – chosen for its strategic importance in the development of western China – through nursing curriculum change, clinical teaching strategies modification, teaching resources enrichment, faculty development, and exchange of nursing scholars.
National Training Institute – The Ministry of Health requested Project HOPE’s help in developing and operationalizing the Asian-Pacific HOPE Training Center for Public Health, to provide training for health professionals in various disciplines from throughout China, and eventually other Asian countries. Long term, the Ministry of Health has expressed a strong desire for Project HOPE to help China address the health professional “certification” issue.
Shanghai Children’s Medical Center – Project HOPE will continue working with SCMC to provide ongoing training for the hospital’s own staff and to further enhance its capacity to develop physicians and nurses from other hospitals. As a part of its 50th anniversary campaign, Project HOPE and SCMC will use the expertise and facilities developed at SCMC to conduct modern training of health care workers from three strategically important hospitals chosen in medically under served areas of rural and western China. New Pediatric Cardiology Tower Opened in May 2007--Read MORE!
China Diabetes Education Program -This multi-collaborative program, which started in 1998, established diabetes training centers, introduced a state-of-the-art training model, and developed diabetes education and training materials that have won strong support from the Ministry of Health and government at various levels. Program Extended-Read More. Hubei HIV/AIDS Professional Education – Project HOPE began a program to train selected physicians, nurses, and other health care workers with the highest level of interest and experience with HIV/AIDS, and the greatest likelihood of caring for high volumes of people living with HIV/AIDS in their clinical care settings. These professionals will participate in intensive training and will also learn instructional techniques that will allow them to facilitate training for additional colleagues, continuing the cascade of health care providers to be trained throughout the province in the next phases.
Timeline
| 1983 |
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Shanghai Second Medical University and Xin Hua Hospital invite Project HOPE to assist in establishing a pediatric cardiovascular center at Xin Hua Hospital |
| 1984 |
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The pediatric and neonatal intensive care unit in Hangzhou is opened as a part of the Zhejiang Medical University/ Project HOPE collaboration |
| 1987 |
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A joint Master’s Degree program is initiated to train students in Health Care Administration with Xian Medical University and the University of Alabama. In 1989, the first 13 graduate students completed this program and were assigned to hospital and Ministry of Public Health posts |
| 1989 |
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Chinese management assumes authority of coronary care units established under HOPE’s guidance at Beijing First Affiliated Hospital. A rural perinatal care program and a model program in rural medical education is established in Xian |
| 1990 |
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HOPE provides assistance with construction of emergency room facilities at the Second Teaching Hospital of Zhejiang Medical University in Hangzhou |
| 1992 |
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Project HOPE and the China Nurse’s Association sign a 5-year agreement to jointly provide nursing continuing education |
| 1998 |
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Shanghai Children’s Medical Center opens its doors. National Diabetes Education program begins |
| 2002 |
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National Healthy Heart Program is initiated. 12 years of temporary dental care clinics culminates in a permanent clinic located in a Wuhan Province primary school |
| 2003 |
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Project HOPE, in partnership with Wuhan University, assists with funding a National HIV/AIDS Conference in Wuhan. At the request of China’s Ministry of Health, Project HOPE is working with Chinese agencies on a national HIV/AIDS education program |
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