Shanghai Children's Medical Center (National Children's Medical Center), affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

1. Historical Origins and Spiritual Inheritance

Shanghai Children's Medical Center is a tertiary-level Class A children's specialist hospital integrating medical treatment, scientific research, and teaching. It was jointly built by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and Project HOPE in the 1990s and officially opened in 1998. Comrade Jiang Zemin inscribed the hospital's name. In 2017, it was approved as a National Children's Medical Center. Adhering to the principle of "everything for children," the hospital inherits the pediatric cardiothoracic surgery system pioneered by Professor Ding Wenxiang. It is the first children's specialist hospital in China to pass JCI international accreditation and has obtained HIMSS EMRAM Level 6, ISO15189, and GCP quality certifications.

2. Overall Scale and Hardware Capabilities

The hospital has two campuses, Lujiazui and Zhangjiang, with a total of 1,500 authorized beds and approximately 800 open beds. The Zhangjiang campus has a total building area of nearly 100,000 square meters, equipped with 32 bone marrow transplant wards, 8 modern operating rooms, and 10 wards including hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and intratumoral and extramural tumor transplantation, with 384 open beds. The hospital has 31 clinical departments and houses the National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, the Shanghai Clinical Medical Research Center for Rare Pediatric Diseases, the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Pediatric Clinical Molecular Diagnosis, and the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Pediatric Brain and Intellectual Development.

3. National Ranking and Authoritative Certification

The Children's Medical Center is a "211 Project" and "985 Project" construction unit, with 12 national key disciplines and national key clinical specialties. It has won the Shanghai Municipal Government Quality Gold Award, been selected as a pilot unit for high-quality development of public hospitals in Shanghai, and its pediatrics department ranks among the top in the country in the Fudan University version of China's hospital specialty reputation ranking. It is a national children's medical center.

4. Core Business Data

The hospital boasts a leading Disease Complexity and Criticality Index (CMI) in Shanghai, with approximately 1.9 million outpatient and emergency visits, 42,500 discharges, and 23,500 surgeries annually. In its first year of operation, the Zhangjiang campus discharged nearly 14,000 patients, performed nearly 2,000 surgeries, and completed over 300 hematopoietic stem cell transplants. It has established a rare disease registry of tens of thousands of cases, and its scale of pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplants and mucopolysaccharidosis transplants is among the leading in China.

5. MDT Multidisciplinary Collaboration System

The multidisciplinary joint diagnosis and treatment platform and pediatric clinical research platform of the Children's Center enjoy a high reputation at home and abroad. It regularly offers MDT outpatient clinics for complex congenital heart disease, hematologic malignancies, and rare diseases. In 2015, it established the first rare disease diagnosis and treatment center in China, creating a closed-loop chain for rare diseases from screening, diagnosis, treatment to rehabilitation and long-term follow-up, and supporting continuing medical care for adults with rare diseases.

6. International and Foreign-Related Medical Treatment System

The hospital has established sister-hospital partnerships with more than 30 medical institutions in more than 10 countries, set up 8 international joint laboratories, centers or bases, and managed 4 national children's regional medical centers in Fujian, Hainan, Guizhou and Linyi. Its remote MDT (Multidisciplinary Team) network covers the whole country. In 2018, when the hospital celebrated its 20th anniversary, former US President Trump and his wife sent a congratulatory letter. Its level of internationalization ranks among the top children's hospitals in China.