Upholding the overall leadership of the Party is an important cornerstone for promoting development of public hospitals. Party building leadership for high-quality development of public hospitals must adhere to the value orientation of public welfare, establish a modern hospital management system, and promote the mutual promotion and integration of both Party building and medical service. The practice path of Party building in leading the high-quality development of public hospitals in a tertiary hospital won the support of patients, employees and medical students at large, gave full play to the leading role of the Party, and made breakthroughs in terms of medical service, discipline construction, talent training and internal management quality improvements. By strengthening top-level design and institutional system construction, the hospital has effectively transformed the political and organizational advantages led by Party building into an endogenous momentum for the reform and development of public hospitals. The practice solved such important questions as to the beneficiaries of the high-quality development of public hospitals, whom to depend on and how to govern, hence providing reference for further promoting the high-quality development of public hospitals in China and realizing the deep integration of Party building and medical service.

The assessment of the Party branch is conducive to improving the quality of Party building, giving full play of the role of Party branch, and better realizing the two-way integration of Party building and health care, to promote the high-quality development of public hospitals. Oriented by problems, West China Hospital, Sichuan University comprehensively adopted a series of methods, such as literature research, Delphi method and in-depth interview and so on, to construct the index system of the Party branch assessment and explored an effective operation mechanism. As a result, the basic management was consolidated, the normalization and standardization of Party branch work was advanced, and the roles of Party branch became more prominent, which is expected to provide decision-making and work references for health authorities and national counterparts.