United Foundation for China's Health

We Believe Healing Brings Hope.

The United Foundation for China's Health (UFCH) is an independent, AAAA-rated charity founded by Roberta Lipson, founder of United Family Healthcare. We provide medical care to the people the system most often leaves behind — low-income families, people with disabilities, and communities in rural and underserved regions.

The Foundation

An Independent Charity, Founded on the Same Principle as Our Hospitals.

UFCH is an independent charity established under United Family Healthcare (UFH) — the international-standard hospital network within New Frontier Group. It was founded on a single principle carried forward from UFH's earliest days: quality healthcare should reach the people who need it most — not just the people who can travel to it. Officially established in 2018 and approved by the Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau as a Chinese charity organization, UFCH was recognized as an AAAA-rated charity in 2021.

Drawing on the clinical depth, surgical capacity, and care protocols of the UFH hospital network. Surgeries that would otherwise be out of reach are scheduled here. Cancer screenings that would otherwise never happen are run here. Children with rare conditions who would otherwise wait years for the right specialist are seen here.

Independent and audited
Established 2018, approved by the Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau. AAAA-rated charity organization (2021).
UFH: major donor and medical provider
A major donor to the Foundation and one of its primary clinical partners. Complex surgeries, screenings, and long-term care delivered through Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou United Family hospitals.
60+ partner organizations
Working alongside grassroots charities and community groups across the country to identify and reach patients who cannot reach us.

Our Programs

Four Programs, One Mission.

Each program addresses a specific structural gap in how high-standard care reaches the people who need it. Together, they account for the full scope of the Foundation's clinical activity.

Charity Medical Program

Surgical and Specialty Care for Disadvantaged Groups

In partnership with nearly 60 charitable organizations across the country, we provide continuous medical support — surgeries, emergency care, and long-term care — for orphaned and disabled individuals and disadvantaged families. Conditions range from common needs to the most complex critical cases.

Regional Medical Mission

Cervical and Breast Cancer Screening, Plus Local Capacity

Large-scale health education, screening, and treatment for cervical and breast cancer reaching women in low-resource areas and urban migrant workers. Each mission also includes hands-on training for grassroots medical personnel — what we leave behind matters as much as what we deliver.

Demonstration Project

Eliminating Female Cancers, at Scale

A three-year pilot building on a decade of cervical and breast cancer screening: 30,000 women a year in low-resource areas receive high-quality screening and treatment. The goal is a replicable, low-cost prevention and treatment model — measured by clinical outcomes, economic efficiency, screening participation, and the primary care capacity it builds.

Community Outreach

Health Checkups, Training, and Disaster Response

We work directly with communities — providing health checkups and training to disadvantaged groups and frontline social workers, and delivering emergency supplies and clinical support to regions affected by natural disasters.

Cumulative Impact

The Work, by the Numbers.

Every figure below is a real patient seen, treated, or screened. Cumulative through December 2025.

32,124

Outpatient Visits

1,605

Inpatient Care Admissions

825

Surgical Cases

23,000+

HPV Cervical Cancer Screenings

Outcomes

Stories from the Field.

Five patient stories from the Foundation's recent work. Each began with a clinical problem that had gone unaddressed — often for years —either in areas lacking proper medical services or due to unaffordable treatment costs.

Story 01

Yushu, Qinghai · Beijing

Four Years of Incontinence, Ended

Zhuoma, a Tibetan woman from a pastoral area of Yushu, Qinghai, developed a vesicovaginal fistula after a hysterectomy for cervical cancer. She lived with constant urinary incontinence for more than four years; the nearest county hospital was over 200 kilometers from her home. In December 2024, after a UFCH free-clinic team identified the cause, she travelled 2,000 kilometers to Beijing United Family Hospital, where Dr. Zhu Gang's multidisciplinary team repaired the fistula on a Da Vinci robotic platform.

Story 02

Shanghai

Standing Straight, at Nine

Xiaonian, nine, has congenital multiple spinal deformities — scoliosis, an irregular cervical curve, and uneven shoulders that would worsen as he grew. At Shanghai United Family Hospital, Professor Tan Jun's orthopedic team rehearsed the operation on a 1:1 3D-printed model of his spine, which allowed them to scale the originally extensive procedure back to a targeted intervention. He walked on the third day after surgery.

Story 03

Daliangshan, Sichuan

Hearing the World, for the First Time

Sidu, eight, was born with hearing impairment in a Yi village in Daliangshan, Sichuan. Her first hearing test came at age eight; her hearing threshold was 70 decibels, close to profound deafness. A donor-funded hearing aid and language rehabilitation followed. Five years on, with a replacement device fitted, she is in fourth grade at a regular school — listening to her teacher, discussing homework with classmates, and raising her hand to answer questions.

Story 04

Beijing

The Water That Lets Him Stand

Xiaoyu has spinal muscular atrophy, a rare neuromuscular disease that affects roughly one in ten thousand children. Before UFCH-funded hydrotherapy, two adults were needed to help him stand. In a 32-degree therapy pool, buoyancy reduces the load on his joints and the warmth relaxes his muscles. After months of sessions, he can extend his arms, kick his legs, hold his head upright, and walk short distances with support.

Story 05

Yushu, Qinghai

What the Mission Leaves Behind

In August 2025, twenty clinicians from the Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou United Family hospitals spent ten days in Yushu, Qinghai, at 3,800 meters above sea level. The team completed 950 cervical cancer screenings, 106 colposcopies, roughly 90 thermal coagulation treatments, and 600 breast ultrasounds. Real-time remote consultations were provided by Professor Qiao Youlin of Peking Union Medical College and by UFH ultrasound chief Dr. Li Anhua. Throughout the mission, the team trained local clinicians to carry the protocols forward.

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A Note from the Founder

Those in need would otherwise have no access to this medical care. For them, a successful treatment is more than an outcome — it is a new life story.

Roberta Lipson

Founder, United Foundation for China's Health · Deputy Chair of the Board

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