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Material additions and editorial changes across the public information library.

Raffles Hospital Shanghai profile made directly actionable

Expanded the Raffles Hospital Shanghai profile with the provider’s telephone, email and WeChat appointment routes, Qiantan address, first-visit passport and insurance-card instructions, clinician-language verification route, department directory, emergency-service scope, primary-insurance direct-billing limit and a practical cost-estimate checklist. The page now uses provider-controlled sources throughout, distinguishes the hospital’s 24-hour hotline from public 120 ambulance dispatch and avoids inventing unpublished fees or a universal department schedule.

Guangzhou United Family Hospital profile made directly actionable

Expanded the Guangzhou United Family Hospital profile with its provider-published 24-hour Service Center, online appointment form, WhatsApp and WeChat routes, Pazhou campus boundary, multilingual Patient Services information, 24/7 Emergency Room, current direct-billing explanation and a practical cost-estimate checklist. The page uses provider-controlled sources, separates the hospital emergency hotline from public 120 ambulance dispatch and publishes useful access information without inventing an unavailable complete price table.

Major hospital profiles made directly actionable

Expanded the Beijing United Family Hospital, Shanghai United Family Hospital — Changning, Shanghai East International Medical Center, Peking Union International Medical Services, Shanghai Jiahui International Hospital and Guangzhou First People’s Hospital profiles with provider-published contacts, booking routes, language and insurance checks, search-intent aliases and clearer limits. The Shanghai East profile now gives both 24-hour hotlines, appointment email, 23rd- and 24th-floor arrival routes, two current visit-fee ranges, deposit and direct-billing checks, and provider-only sources. The Shanghai United Family Changning profile now separates the 24-hour appointment center, main-campus contact, Patient Services and Emergency Room; it also explains the provider’s consultation-fee model without inventing a complete price table. The Beijing United Family profile presents six examples from its official common-service price list while documenting that a second live provider price page shows different figures for some similar categories; readers are directed to confirm the applicable schedule and obtain a dated estimate.

Hospital-hours, weekend and holiday-clinic guide rebuilt

Rebuilt the hospital-hours guide as an eleven-stage verification route covering planned-care boundaries, exact provider and campus, six separate operational clocks, weekend and holiday overrides, source chains, waitlist versus confirmed status, supporting services, passport and language access, schedule conflicts, emergency separation and a final evidence pack. It now uses twelve claim-scoped sources—ten from hospitals or healthcare providers—and a dedicated schedule-verification illustration.

Hospital and doctor verification guide rebuilt

Rebuilt the provider-verification guide as an eleven-stage route covering legal Chinese identity, official institution records, licence versus clinic filing, exact campus and registered service scope, clinician registration, special-service checks, accountable internet hospitals, official booking and payment channels, neutral mismatch resolution and a final evidence pack. It now uses twelve claim-scoped official sources and a dedicated verification-route illustration.

Foreign-employee basic medical-insurance guide rebuilt

Rebuilt the foreign-employee basic medical-insurance guide as an eleven-stage route from eligibility and employer registration through work-permit and social-security-card integration, treaty checks, local entitlement, credentials, designated providers, hospital settlement, failed-settlement recovery, identity changes and escalation. The guide now reflects the 2024 foreign-worker rule revision, the later China–Kyrgyzstan agreement update, thirteen claim-scoped sources and a dedicated public-versus-private insurance route illustration.

Hospital-department selection guide rebuilt

Rebuilt the department-selection guide as an eleven-stage administrative route covering the visit task, emergency boundary, institution and campus, department hierarchy, family-medicine and patient-service entry points, existing referrals, appointment records, passport access, language and insurance, wrong-route correction and follow-up. The guide now uses eleven scoped sources—ten from hospitals or healthcare providers—and a dedicated department-route illustration.

Community clinic, general hospital and specialist-hospital route rebuilt

Rebuilt the provider-choice guide as a ten-stage route covering urgency, community and family-medicine first contact, general-hospital breadth, specialist-hospital focus, institution-level labels, passport registration, language, insurance, verification calls, referral and follow-up. The guide now uses thirteen scoped sources, eleven from hospitals or healthcare providers, and a dedicated three-route illustration.

Healthcare-system, payment, insurance and medicine workflows rebuilt

Rebuilt fifteen core seven-stage workflows covering China healthcare-system navigation for foreign patients, hospital payment, deposit settlement and refunds, direct billing versus reimbursement, employer group-plan administration, international-student insurance, pre-discharge insurance-claim documents, planned-care pre-authorization and guarantees of payment, long-term prescriptions for stable chronic conditions, prescription versus Class A and Class B OTC medicine classification, hospital-pharmacy versus external retail-pharmacy dispensing, online-medicine retail transactions, foreign-prescription handoffs into China-based care, Chinese medicine package and label mapping, and pharmacy sales-proof and insurance-claim handoffs. They now separate urgency and planned care; facility role, level and service route; exact campus, department and appointment; passport identity and language support; orders and transactions; member enrolment and effective dates; university registration and arrival gaps; patient- and payer-linked advances; network, benefit and hospital acceptance checks; first and repeat prescription assessments; original overseas records and accepted translations; outer packages, immediate containers, approved inserts and pharmacy-applied labels; pharmacy sales proof, tax invoices, payment proof and original packages; exact listing, product, classification, label and legal-seller checks; local clinical assessment and prescription decisions; hospital-only and transferable prescription states; OTC and licensed-pharmacist prescription gates; hospital, retail and online dispensing routes; basic-insurance designated-pharmacy settlement and commercial-claim files; approval, batch, expiry, storage and seal fields; payment, sales-proof, storage and delivery evidence; renewal, graduation and job-exit changes; final settlement; and claim, correction, refund, shortage, mismatch or record-handoff cases. Each workflow uses scoped provider, insurer, university, pharmacy or regulator sources and has its own illustration; public-institution sources are retained only where necessary to define the applicable framework.

Complete information library opened

Opened 315 practical healthcare-navigation guides, 74 hospital profiles across 14 cities, eight life-situation guides and 563 Healthcare A–Z terms. Guide pages show their cited sources and review dates. Hospital profiles show all five evidence fields and clearly mark details that should be reconfirmed directly.

Adult vaccination and travel health

Added a dedicated planning center for adult vaccination services, travel-health centers, appointments, identity records, international vaccination certificates, destination checks, costs and receipts. The collection explains administrative routes without recommending a vaccine or replacing provider advice.

Diagnostic tests, imaging and pathology

Added a complete navigation center covering provider types, orders, identity matching, appointments, reports, image data, pathology materials, payment, insurance, corrections and follow-up handoffs.

Pediatric and child healthcare

Added practical routes for finding child-focused care, preparing child and guardian identity, booking appointments, managing medicines and records, handling payment and insurance, and continuing care after a move.

Women’s health and gynecology

Added guides for provider selection, appointments, consent and language support, screening administration, reproductive-service verification, payment, records, planned procedures and continuity of care.

Mental health and psychiatric care

Added navigation for psychological-assistance lines, verified psychiatric providers, appointments, consent and privacy, prescriptions, payment, records, inpatient administration, continuing care and problem resolution.

Internet hospitals and online care

Added guides for verifying platforms and clinicians, real-name registration, online appointments, eligible follow-up routes, electronic prescriptions, medicine delivery, fees, privacy, child accounts and online-to-offline handoffs.

Dental, eye and planned hospital care

Expanded the library with complete dental and eye-care centers plus detailed hospital admission, scheduled surgery, companion, consent, billing, discharge-record and follow-up routes.

Insurance, employment and family-support collections

Added dedicated centers for basic medical insurance, resident and child insurance, maternity benefits, outpatient chronic and special-disease benefits, work injury, occupational health, sick leave, health examinations, disability support, long-term care and medical decision support.

Hospital directory expanded nationwide

Expanded the directory to 74 source-linked hospital and campus profiles in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, Chongqing, Xi’an, Wuhan, Qingdao, Xiamen and Haikou.

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