Xinhua Hospital

    Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, established in 1958 after the founding of New China in 1949, is a modern comprehensive teaching hospital, integrating functions of providing medical care, serving as an educational base and conducting scientific researches. It has been awarded three times the title of "National Advanced Collective" and was granted the title of Class A Hospital at the Tertiary Level (the highest class) in 1993.

    The hospital has a complete range of disciplines and specialties with special features. The hospital accommodates 1,728 beds (including 500 beds at its branch institution - Shanghai Children’s Medical Center); 47 clinical departments, 66 specialties, 8 university-level research laboratories, and 6 medically-related technological service platforms including Heart Intervention Diagnosis and Treatment Unit, Endoscopic Diagnostic and Treatment Center, Excimer Laser Diagnostic and Treatment Unit, WHO Collaborative Center for Child Growth and Development, National Research Center for Neonatal Screening and Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai Diagnosis and Treatment Center for Hearing Disorder in Children. The number of OPD and emergency patient visits reaches 2.2 million a year; the total admissions of inpatients (person/time)are over 40,000 every year; the number of operations on inpatients is nearly 20,000 per year. With superior comprehensive professional strengths, the departments of Cardiology, Digestive Medicine, Neurology, General surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Neurosurgery, Urology, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Pediatric Surgery, Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, Head-Neck Surgery, Dermatology and Clinical Nutrition Center are the key programs supported respectively by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Health, Shanghai Municipality, Shanghai Health Bureau and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. The hospital has gained 21 prizes granted by Shanghai Municipality for its clinical medical achievements.

     Medical equipment in Xinhua hospital is valued at RMB 0.37 billion. The highlights include Shanghai’s first DSCT, 3 MRI sets, 4 CT scanners, 3 DSA sets, 2 ECT sets, liner accelerator, Lower- Hyperbaric oxygen chamber, fully automatic biochemical analyzer, fully automatic protein analyzer, flow cytometer and a variety of testing, monitoring, imaging diagnostic facilities ensuring the high quality of diagnosis and treatment.