# healthcare financing

When Charity Runs a Hospital: The Financial Fault Lines Behind China’s ‘Philanthropic’ Pediatric Clinic

A rent dispute at Beijing’s Yanan Angel Children’s Hospital has exposed a systemic tension in Chinese philanthropic medicine: charitable funds are legally restricted to specific patient care and cannot be used to subsidise hospital running costs. The case highlights the unsustainability of heavy-asset charity hospitals and renews calls for clearer rules, better disclosure and hybrid models that combine philanthropy with market-based revenue or light-asset partnerships.