Founded in 1844, Renji hospital is the first hospital practicing western medicine in Shanghai after its opening as a treaty port. Currently, the hospital comprises four campuses in the east, west, north, and south, as well as the Shanghai Cancer Institute. It is a comprehensive Grade III Class A hospital that boasts a complete range of disciplines and integrates medical care, teaching, and scientific research.
The east campus is located in the Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone in Pudong, which was completed and put into use in October 1999. The west campus is situated in the Central Business District of Huangpu District, adjacent to the Bund. The south campus is located in Pujiang Town, Minhang District, which was completed and put into use in December 2012 and fully integrated into Renji Hospital on October 20, 2020. The north campus is located at the intersection of Juye Road and Lingshan Road, which was fully operational in July 2013. Shanghai Cancer Institute is located on Xietu Road, which officially merged with Renji Hospital in October 2010, forming a unified "institute-hospital" system.
Since its establishment, the hospital has boasted two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. By the end of 2023, the hospital had a total of 4,780 full-time employees, including 714 experts with senior and associate senior professional titles; 177 doctoral supervisors and 208 master supervisors.
The four campuses in the east, west, south, and north of the hospital have a total of 2,750 approved beds and 54 clinical medical departments. In 2023, the hospital completed 6.4364 million outpatient and emergency visits, discharged 215,800 patients, performed 105,200 inpatient surgeries, including 31,500 fourth-level surgeries, 31,000 minimally invasive surgeries, and 41,100 day surgeries. The average length of hospital stay was 5.23 days, and the proportion of drug expenditure accounted for 24.43%.
The hospital is equipped with advanced medical equipment such as dual-source photon-counting CT, positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT), positron emission tomography-magnetic resonance imaging (PET-MR), endoscopic surgical instrument control system (Da Vinci surgical robot), X-ray stereotactic radiotherapy system, helical tomotherapy system, linear accelerator (LA), 320-slice 640-layer ultra-fast spiral CT, hybrid operating room system, and telemedicine teaching system.
The hospital boasts 13 national clinical key specialties, including Gastroenterology, Gastroenterology Key Laboratory, Obstetrics, Cardiology, Neurosurgery, General Surgery, Urology, Nephrology, Medical Imaging, Rheumatology, Allergy, Transplantation, and Critical Care Medicine. It also has one "flagship" department for integrated Chinese and Western medicine under the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Nephrology Department). In addition, the hospital has a national drug clinical trial institution, a national key laboratory (National Key Laboratory of Oncology Systems Medicine), a key laboratory of the Ministry of Education (Key Laboratory of Anesthesiology), a key laboratory of the Ministry of Health (Key Laboratory of Internal Medicine Digestion), and a level-3 traditional Chinese medicine research laboratory under the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Molecular and Cellular (Nephropathy) Laboratory, Acupuncture-Anesthesia Effect Laboratory).
The hospital has witnessed a year-on-year increase in research projects and patents, including key research and development projects and major projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (major, key, and innovative research groups). In 2023, the hospital secured 492 projects with a total funding of 212,270,753 yuan, surpassing the 100 million yuan mark for 11 consecutive years. Among them, 161 projects were funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The hospital published 712 SCIE-indexed papers (including articles and reviews), with 111 papers having an impact factor greater than 10, and the highest impact factor for a single article was 56.3. In 2022, the hospital continued to rank among the top domestic medical institutions in terms of the Nature Index, ranking second nationally in Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FC) (27th globally) and second nationally in Article Count (AC) (54th globally). The hospital has also won numerous national science and technology progress awards, Chinese Medical Science and Technology Awards, and Science and Technology Progress Awards of Colleges and Universities. Hundreds of staff members have been included in talent development programs at various levels, including 973 Chief Scientists, Changjiang Distinguished Professors, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions from the Ministry of Health, National Outstanding Youth, and leading talents in Shanghai.
In 2010, the hospital became the first batch of standardized training bases for resident physicians in Shanghai. In 2013, it became the first batch of specialized physician standardized training bases in Shanghai. In 2014, it became the first batch of national standardized training bases for resident physicians. In 2014, the Ottawa-Shanghai Joint School of Medicine was established, which is the first Sino-foreign cooperative education project officially approved by the Ministry of Education in China. In 2018, the hospital was awarded the first batch of National Clinical Teaching and Training Demonstration Centers. In 2019, the Sino-French College of Surgery was established, and the clinical medicine undergraduate program was certified by the Ministry of Education. In recent years, the hospital has been awarded the first batch of Chinese laparoscopic surgery training bases, the first batch of national first-class undergraduate courses, the Ministry of Education's curriculum ideological and political demonstration courses, and the second batch of national first-class undergraduate courses. The hospital focuses on building an excellent physician training system, with 28 doctoral programs and 34 master's programs currently available. The hospital's teaching building has a total area of 6,508 square meters. The simulation training center was established in 2003, and received the title of "National Clinical Skills Center" in 2013. In 2018, the training center was officially inaugurated, covering a total area of 2,300 square meters. The training center integrates multi-functionality, modernization, and humanization, and serves as an educational platform with the main functions of conducting medical simulation education, clinical skills training, professional ability assessment, medical simulation professional research, and project equipment research and development.
In recent years, the hospital has steadily promoted the construction of a close medical consortium, playing a leading role in promoting and improving the level of tertiary hospitals. It has successively entrusted the management of Jiading District Central Hospital (Renji Hospital Jiading Branch), Baoshan District Dachang Hospital (Renji Hospital Baoshan Branch), Minhang District Pujiang Hospital (Renji Hospital Minhang Branch), and Pudong New Area Punan Hospital (Renji Hospital Punan Branch) in Shanghai. The hospital has also actively responded to national strategies such as the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta integration, taking over the comprehensive management of Ningbo Hangzhou Bay New Area Hospital (Renji Hospital Ningbo Branch) and Nantong First People's Hospital New Hospital (Renji Hospital Nantong Branch), and jointly built the "National Medical Center for Digestive Diseases" (Renji Hospital Anhui Hospital) with the Second People's Hospital of Anhui Province.
The hospital has always adhered to its public welfare mission and actively fulfilled its social responsibilities. After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, it sent multiple medical teams totaling over 400 people to Wuhan, Beijing, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Tibet, Sanya, Chengdu, Shanxi, and Chongqing to assist in epidemic prevention and control efforts. Since 2017, the hospital has repeatedly dispatched staff to Tibet, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Morocco, and Laos to conduct targeted support work. It has also sent medical teams or served as designated hospitals to provide medical security for major events such as municipal conferences and the China International Import Expo.
Renji Hospital will continue to uphold the spirit of its motto "Benevolence and Medical Skills Serve the World" and adhere to the service tenet of "Patient First, Quality Foremost". It strives to become a benchmark hospital in Asia's top-tier medical centers, aiming to build a domestic leading innovative, research-oriented, intelligent, and international medical center.
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