Xin Hua Hospital

Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine was founded in 1958, which is the first comprehensive hospital designed and built by Shanghai itself since the founding of New China. With more than 60 years of development, the new Chinese have worked hard to build a Grade III Grade A hospital with complete pediatrics and adult disciplines and distinctive characteristics. The number of outpatient and emergency care of Xinhua Hospital is among the highest in Shanghai municipal hospitals all the year round, and it is capable of providing full-life cycle care for patients from 0 to 100 years and beyond. Xinhua Hospital has successively won honorary titles such as National Advanced Collective, National Advanced Unit of Health System, National Advanced Unit of Health Culture Construction of Health System, Shanghai Civilized Unit and Shanghai May Day Labor Certificate.

Xinhua Hospital covers an area of 261 mu (including about 152 mu in Fengxian Hospital), with a total building area of 256000 square meters. It has a complete set of disciplines and distinctive features. It has 60 clinical, medical and technical departments and diagnostic platforms, including internal, external, women's, children's, etc., more than 2450 open beds, and more than 3940 employees, including more than 2840 medical staff. It is the only comprehensive hospital with perinatal and complete pediatrics subspecialty among the three level hospitals in the city, and the first batch of national demonstration bases for early childhood development.

Xinhua Hospital has built a well-equipped emergency building, outpatient and internal medicine building, surgery building, medical care complex building, pediatric complex building, pediatric surgery building, women's and children's building, oral and dermatological building and medical technology building, providing a comfortable medical environment for patients. TOMO, Leonardo da Vinci surgical robot, PET-CT, DSCT (dual source CT), SPECT, LA, DSA, MRI, integrated laser ultrasound interventional system, argon helium cryosurgery system, mobile intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging system, hyperbaric (low-pressure) oxygen therapy chamber, excimer laser and other medical equipment ensure the quality of diagnosis and treatment.

General Surgery, Cardiovascular Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, Emergency Medicine Department, Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Dermatology, Pediatric Respiratory Department of Pediatrics, Pediatrics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Laboratory Department, and Clinical Pharmacy are among the national key clinical specialty construction projects. The Department of Neonatal Screening and Genetic Metabolism of Shanghai · China Genetic Medical Center, Shanghai Pediatric Surgery Clinical Medical Center, Shanghai Critical Maternity Consultation and Rescue Center, Shanghai Critical Newborn Consultation and Rescue Center, Shanghai Prenatal Diagnosis Center, Shanghai Children's Hearing Impairment Diagnosis and Treatment Center, Shanghai Newborn Congenital Heart Disease Screening and Diagnosis Center, Shanghai Rare Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Center Nine provincial and ministerial diagnosis and treatment and rescue centers, including Shanghai Children's Rare Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Center, and eight diagnosis and treatment centers of Shanghai Jiaotong University are located in Xinhua Hospital.

In the 1950s, Xinhua Hospital has successfully performed the first open heart surgery for infants in China, and in the 1980s, it successfully performed the first separation of conjoined infants in China. In addition, the hospital has also took the lead in carrying out intracapsular cryosurgery for cataract extraction, radical surgery for congenital megacolon, and special decompression for congenital polycystic kidney. It is the first hospital that applied enzyme based agents to treat somatic jaundice, it also took the lead in carrying out the correction of kyphosis scoliosis in China, and took the lead in opening a pediatric asthma clinic. On the road of medical research development and service innovation and progress, Xinhua Hospital has never stopped exploring, passed on from generation to generation and kept moving forward.

Xinhua Hospital has 12 national and Shanghai key disciplines or research bases, including Ministry of Education-Shanghai Key Laboratory of Children’s Environmental Health, Engineering Research Center of Techniques and Instruments for Diagnosis and Treatment of Congenital Heart Disease, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Pediatric Digestion and Nutrition, and Shanghai Institute of Pediatric Medicine. In recent years, it has won 20 scientific research awards above provincial and ministerial level; 144 talent projects at or above the municipal level, including the “National Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talents Project”, “the Ministry of Education's New Century Talents”, “Shanghai's Leading Talents”, and “Shanghai's Outstanding Academic Leaders”; 324 national scientific research projects, 1431 SCI articles published. There are four medical education departments in Xinhua Clinical Medical College and Shanghai Jiaotong University Medical College, including Clinical Medicine Department, Clinical Nutrition Department, Pediatrics Department and Otolaryngology Department. There are 94 doctoral supervisors and 138 master's supervisors. The professional academic journals "Journal of Clinical Pediatrics" and "Journal of Educational Biology" sponsored by the hospital were included in several international retrieval databases.

In 2015, Xinhua Hospital officially established a Clinical Research Center, which is the first hospital based clinical research systematic support and innovation platform institution in Shanghai. It has cooperated deeply with the University of Ottawa Medical School in Canada and Harvard Medical School in the United States, gathered doctors, clinical epidemiologists, clinical pharmacists and statisticians, followed international scientific level and ethical standards, and built a clinical research collaboration network. It promotes the quality improvement of clinical research projects, provides a standardized way for the transformation of clinical medical research achievements, and enriches the clinical research talent pool.

Supported by the Clinical Research Center and relying on the Institute of Early Life Health of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical College, the "Thousand Day Plan" - the first carrier level clinical research project in China to explore major human developmental diseases has made initial progress. The research achievements of this project in the field of early life health will strongly promote the scientific level of decision-making on maternal and child health and related policies in China to a new level.

According to the deployment of the "5+3+1" project of the new tertiary hospital in the suburbs of Shanghai, Xinhua Hospital has been fully responsible for the establishment of Chongming tertiary hospital since 2009, led the branch hospital to successfully pass the review of the tertiary hospital, and became the national pilot hospital for standardized diagnosis and treatment of tumors. The construction of the specialized medical consortium with the Xinhua Chongming branch hospital as the core has achieved results. The reform model of Xinhua Chongming integrated management and homogeneous development has been fully affirmed and highly praised by the National Health and Family Planning Commission. Since 2018, the Medical Reform Office of the State Council and the Shanghai Municipal Government have jointly entrusted Xinhua Hospital to take the lead in the construction of the "healthy version" of the pilot reform of the Xinhua Chongming regional medical consortium. With the reform of the medical insurance payment system as the fulcrum, it has gradually changed from "patients with serious diseases do not leave the island" to "less healthy diseases", and actively explored a new path for the construction of the medical consortium in Shanghai and across the country.

Fengxian Hospital Area of Xinhua Hospital, a key planning project of the "Fourteenth Five Year Plan" under construction, covers an area of 152 mu, with 1200 beds in total. The first phase of the project covers an area of about 135000 square meters, with 600 beds. It will be completed in December 2024. At that time, Xinhua Hospital will form an overall development pattern of "One Body, Two Wings, Smart Connect Connectivity, Platform Support, and Discipline Integration", which will provide support for the Yangtze River Delta integration national strategy, support the construction planning and development of Fengxian New City, provide support for improving the livelihood of the suburbs, and provide impetus for strengthening the linkage between medical education and research.

Xinhua hospital has also taken the lead in establishing the Northern Pediatric Medical Consortium (covering Yangpu, Hongkou, Baoshan and Chongming districts) and the Xinhua Yangpu Medical Consortium, forming a pattern with Xinhua as the leader, secondary and tertiary medical institutions as the platform, and community health service centers as the extension, radiating high-quality medical resources to the community, and playing an active role in promoting the implementation of hierarchical diagnosis and treatment.

In the fight against the COVID-19 throughout the country and in Shanghai, Xinhua hospital took the initiative to assume the social responsibility of public hospitals, sent medical personnel to assist Hubei and public health centers in batches and many times, smoothly operated the designated treatment hospital of Changxing People's Hospital, the temporary centralized isolation and treatment point of Changxing Island, the temporary centralized isolation and treatment point of Huaboyuan Revival Hall, and participated in the medical security work of international flights and the nucleic acid testing work of the city. At the time of the most critical epidemic situation, the hospital's seven route life treatment line always stuck to its posts and kept it unblocked, inheriting the hospital's purpose of "loving the people, benefiting the people, and protecting health". It won the title of advanced collective and individual in Shanghai's fight against COVID-19.

The hospital carried out various counterpart support work in Yunnan, Xinjiang, Tibet and other places. Entrusted by the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and the Shanghai Municipal Government, it was responsible for coordinating the "Key Discipline Construction Project of the Second People's Hospital in Kashgar". In 2015, the Second People's Hospital in Kashgar passed the evaluation of the third class A hospital in the autonomous region, and became a medical center in southern Xinjiang. In March 2010, the hospital established a long-term counterpart support relationship with Longling County People's Hospital in Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, and was awarded the title of "National Advanced Group of Urban and Rural Hospital counterpart support" for its outstanding performance. The general surgery department of the hospital has actively responded to the call for precise assistance in medical aid to Tibet. Since 2017, the hospital has implemented the policy of "outsourcing the department by the hospital", supported the Shigatse People's Hospital to create a "Class III Class A hospital", and won the title of the national advanced collective in poverty alleviation. Since the 1960s, when the hospital joined the first batch of foreign aid medical teams in China, the fine tradition has continued to this day. The medical teams of Shanghai Assistance to Morocco and Laos always have the figure of Xinhua people, carrying forward the spirit of fearing difficulties, saving the dying and helping the wounded, and selfless dedication.

Xinhua hospital has maintained long-term friendly exchanges and cooperation with top hospitals and scientific research institutions in developed countries such as the United States, France, Canada, etc., strengthened personnel exchanges and academic cooperation in key medical fields, deepened international exchanges and cooperation based on projects, supported and assisted the international cooperation project of clinical research of the Xinhua University of Ottawa Medical School, the Xinhua Harvard multidisciplinary cooperation project Children's solid tumor team and Australian clinical research cooperation project have entered a new stage. Guided by the concept of "sharing, win-win and common development", we have always strived to strengthen communication, exchange and cooperation, consolidate and expand the practical cooperation fields, form a grid international academic exchange layout combining points and areas, and promote the all-round development of hospital medicine, teaching and research from an international perspective.

Xinhua hospital has always adhered to the direction of public welfare medicine, actively promoted the homogenization development of regional pediatric medicine, and promoted the preliminary establishment of a hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system for pediatrics. The construction of Xinhua East Medical Union won the title of "Innovative Medical Service Brand" in Shanghai. Since its establishment, Xinhua Hospital Alliance has 29 member units, gradually moving from loose cooperation to deep focus cooperation model. On this basis, the National Pediatrics Alliance of Comprehensive Hospitals and the Yangtze River Delta Pediatrics Medical Innovation Alliance, which were led to establish, will continue to try to transform to the Internet, so that the Xinhua brand can be further spread on the Internet.