Shanghai Children's Hospital


The Shanghai Children's Hospital, founded in 1937 as the Underprivileged Children's Hospital, is the first children's hospital in China, and a prominent comprehensive hospital specialized in children's diseases. It is a teaching hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.

Overview

The hospital has a 370-bed pediatric hospital located on West Beijing Road in the Jing'an district and a 550-bed hospital which opened in 2014 in the Changfeng ecological business area, Putuo District. The hospital treats over one million outpatients annually.
Major Institutes within the Shanghai Children's Hospital include: Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Health Care Center, Shanghai Children's Emergency Center, Shanghai Newborn Screening Center, Shanghai Children's Rehabilitation Center, SJTU Congenital Urogenital Malformations Surgery Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Center and the SJTU Respiratory Infectious Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Center.
Clinical Departments include: Intensive Care Unit, Neonatology, Nephrology and Rheumatology, Respiratory, Hematology, Gastroenterology, Cardiology, Neurology, General Surgery, Cardiovascular Disease, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Urology, Otolaryngology, Children's Health-care, Dermatology, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Stomatology.

History

The hospital was founded in 1937 as the Underprivileged Children's Hospital, by doctors Fu Wenshou and Su Zufei. It was the first children's hospital in China. During World War II, when large numbers of European Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai, the hospital, under Superintendent Dr. Fu, provided treatment to sick children and pregnant women free of charge.
It was renamed Shanghai Children's Hospital in 1953, and became a teaching hospital of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in 2003.