Huashan Hospital

Huashan Hospital, Past was called for Chinese Red Cross General Hospital is founded by Red Cross Soiecty of China in 1907, It is the district general hospital by Red Cross Soiecty of China in Shanghai, China, Huashan Hospital affiliated with the Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University. History Huashan Hospital was founded in 1907 as the Chinese Red Cross General Hospital. It was established by Shen Dunhe, the founder of the Red Cross Society of China, and opened for business in 1909. From 1913 to 1918, it served as a teaching hospital of Harvard University, and regularly sent its doctors and researchers to Harvard for training. Then it cooperated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church for three years. It has been a teaching hospital of then National Central University Medical College (known as [National] Shanghai 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 Massachusetts General Hospital, 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 Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.