United Family Healthcare (UFH) was founded in Beijing in 1997 by Roberta Lipson, introducing internationally accredited, patient-centered medicine to China. For nearly 30 years, UFH has grown from China’s first foreign-invested private hospital into a nationwide network of hospitals and clinics — a trusted name for expatriate families, Chinese patients seeking international standards, and medical travelers from across Asia, the Middle East, Africa and beyond.
Today UFH operates 11 hospitals and 24 clinics across Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Qingdao, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, with the network continuing to expand to more cities nationwide. More than 600 full-time physicians and medical staff from 25+ countries and regions deliver care in English and many other languages. Since 2019, UFH has been part of New Frontier Group, led by CEO Carl Wu (吴启楠).
In Beijing alone, UFH runs five hospitals — the flagship on Jiangtai Road (founded 1997, JCI-accredited), the Jingbei Women & Children’s Hospital, the Rehabilitation Hospital, the Integrated TCM & Western Medicine Hospital (Dongcheng campus) and a planned tertiary hospital. The Dongcheng campus, a 228-bed secondary hospital in central Beijing, became a national medicare-designated institution in 2025, offering a dual-track model of insurance and commercial/self-pay care. Read the story →
