Huashan Hospital (), formerly the Chinese Red Cross General Hospital, is a

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, China, affiliated with the

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History

Huashan Hospital was founded in 1907 as the Chinese Red Cross General Hospital (). It was established by Shen Dunhe, the founder of the

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, and opened for business in 1909. From 1913 to 1918, it served as a teaching hospital of

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, and regularly sent its doctors and researchers to Harvard for training. Then it cooperated with the

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for three years. It has been a teaching hospital of then National Central University Medical College (known as ationalShanghai Medical College later) since 1928. In 1932, it was renamed the First Hospital of the Red Cross Society of China (). It was renamed as Huashan Hospital in 1956. In 2004, Huashan re-established sister hospital relationship with

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, the main teaching hospital of Harvard.

Staff and facilities

The main branch of Huashan Hospital has 1,216 beds. In 2014, it treated 60,000 inpatients and 3.84 million outpatients, half of whom came from outside of Shanghai. More than 40,000 surgeries were performed in the same year. The hospital has a total staff of more than 2,600, with 83% medical and technical professionals, among them 400 are professors and associate professors, including three academicians of the

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and the

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. Huashan Hospital has established 39 clinical and auxiliary departments, ten of which have been recognized by the Ministry of Education of China as national key clinical medical specialties: Neurosurgery, Hand Surgery, Pancreatic Surgery, Neurology, Integrated Traditional Chinese Medicine, Urology, Nephrology, Infectious Diseases and Antibiotics, Radiology, Cardiology and Surgery.

Branches

Huashan Hospital established its Eastern Branch, also called the Shanghai International Hospital, in

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New Area in April 2006. It has 200 beds and mainly serves the large expatriate community in Pudong. The Northern Branch of Huashan Hospital is in Gucun, Baoshan District, mainly serving residents of Shanghai's northern suburbs. It has 600 beds and more than 800 staff. Huashan Hospital's Western Branch is located near the

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, serving local residents as well as patients arriving from outside of Shanghai. It has 800 beds.

Notable doctors

Shen Ziyin Shen Ziyin (; 22 March 1928 – 7 March 2019) was a Chinese biologist, physician, and medical researcher. He spent his entire career at Huashan Hospital, a teaching hospital of Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University. He was elected an academ ...

, member of the

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References

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