Need for change
There was more that needed to be changed in China's hospitals than just the updating of the hardware and technology. There were serious issues of insufficient and misdirected investment, which I could not solve on a large scale, but there were also big improvements that could be made by upgrading the management, service model and the philosophy that surrounded the delivery of patient care.
I could think of no better way to encourage change in this area than to model it, and at the same time provide a service to the growing international community who, like my small but growing family, still traveled out of China for any kind of serious healthcare need.
When we developed a business plan for a clinic and hospital facility to serve the international community and whatever segment of the Chinese population may ever be able to pay for private premium services, it turned out to be not only a great opportunity to demonstrate a different approach to healthcare, but also a very solid business proposition, with the possibility of replication if it succeeded.