The First People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, founded in 1864, is a tertiary general hospital, a comprehensive hospital of Western medicine that was established earlier in China, and a comprehensive hospital integrating medicine, teaching, research and prevention
Shanghai First People's Hospital was founded on March 1, 1864, then known as Shanghai General Hospital, which was the largest Western medicine hospital in China at that time, and also one of the earliest Western medicine general hospitals in China. In 1877, it was renamed Gongji Hospital, in 1953 it was renamed Shanghai First People's Hospital, in 1981 it became Shanghai Red Cross Hospital, and in 2002 it was crowned the First People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In 1992, it passed the review of the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China and became one of the first batch of tertiary first-class general hospitals in China. Since 1990, the hospital has been awarded the title of National Top 100 Hospitals, National Advanced Unit of Health System, National Advanced Unit for Spiritual Civilization, National Advanced Unit for Medical Ethics Construction Activities, National Advanced Unit for Hospital Cultural Construction, and National May Day Labor Medal.
In response to the overall plan of "one city and nine towns" of the municipal government, as the first tertiary first-class general hospital in the suburbs of Shanghai, the southern part of Shanghai First People's Hospital was officially put into operation on October 26, 2006, ending the history of no tertiary hospitals in the suburbs of Shanghai, effectively promoting the development of social undertakings in Songjiang District, enhancing the urban connotation of Songjiang District and the fairness of the allocation of public medical and health resources, and improving the ability to serve the health of the people of Songjiang District.
The hospital is now divided into the north (No. 100 Haining Road, Hongkou District) and the south (No. 650 Xinsongjiang Road, Songjiang District), covering an area of 294,775 square meters, and is currently the largest tertiary general hospital in Shanghai. There are 3,768 employees in the hospital, 1,580 approved beds, 2,500 actual open beds, and 48 clinical tertiary disciplines and medical technology disciplines. In 2015, there were 3.559 million outpatient and emergency visits, 104,000 discharges, 74,000 inpatient surgeries, and an average length of stay of 7.19 days. The hospital has 1 key discipline of the Ministry of Education (cardiovascular disease), 8 national key clinical specialty construction projects (otolaryngology, ophthalmology, urology, general surgery, respiratory medicine, oncology, gynecology, clinical pharmacy), 4 endoscopy training bases of the Ministry of Health (gastroenterology, general surgery, urology, gynecology), 2 Shanghai clinical medical centers (Shanghai Organ Transplantation Clinical Medical Center, Shanghai Visual Restoration Clinical Medical Center), There are 3 leading key disciplines of medicine in Shanghai (ophthalmology, urology, anesthesiology), and 2 key laboratories in Shanghai (Shanghai Key Laboratory of Fundus Diseases and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Pancreatic Diseases). Shanghai Institute of Ophthalmology, Shanghai Institute of Bone Oncology, Institute of Urology of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Institute of Pancreatic Diseases of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and Department of Pathology of Shanghai Jiao Tong University are also located in our hospital.
In recent years, the hospital has made great efforts to promote the coordinated development of the dislocation of the two departments in the north and south, and on the basis of discipline planning, evaluation and selection and demonstration, it has established the "4 4" key disciplines (groups) and clinical medical centers in the north and south, namely gynecology and pediatrics, trauma, oncology, digestion in the south and ophthalmology, facial features, urology and cardiovascular in the north, as well as the discipline construction layout of the north-south dislocation of the four characteristic specialties of radiology, ultrasound, pharmacy and laboratory based on medical and technical disciplines. At present, there are 62 doctoral supervisors, 127 master's supervisors, 25 doctoral programs, 25 postdoctoral mobile stations, and 36 master's programs. In addition, many people have won the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the Overseas Young Scholars Cooperative Research Fund, the New Century Millions of Talents Training Program, the Shanghai Hundred Talents Program, the Shanghai Leading Talents Program, and the Shanghai Discipline Leader Program.
In 2015, the hospital won 53 projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, including 1 key project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China; 23 provincial and ministerial level projects and 53 bureau-level projects have been obtained; 44.03 million yuan of vertical scientific research funds and 15 million yuan of horizontal scientific research funds were obtained; He has published 312 SCI papers with an average impact factor of 2.5 points, published 420 papers in statistical source journals, won 1 first prize of the Outstanding Achievement Award of Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education, 1 third prize of the Shanghai Medical Science and Technology Award, and authorized 10 invention patents.
