Renji Hospital

Local Name
上海交通大学医学院附属仁济医院
Brief
Established in 1844, Renji Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine is a public Tier 3A general hospital in Shanghai, China, integrating clinical care, medical education, and scientific research. Originally established as the first Western medicine hospital in Shanghai following the city’s opening as a port, the hospital has developed into a major academic medical institution operating across multiple campuses. Renji Hospital supports multidisciplinary healthcare delivery and research while providing comprehensive clinical services across a broad range of specialties.
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Scale & Capacity

Renji Hospital operates four campuses—east, west, south, and north—and includes the Shanghai Cancer Research Institute within its institutional system. By the end of 2024, the hospital employed 4,832 full-time staff members and maintained 2,750 approved beds across 54 clinical and technical departments. In the same year, the hospital recorded 6.9 million outpatient and emergency visits, 243,900 inpatient discharges, and 117,900 inpatient surgeries, with an average hospital stay of 4.99 days, reflecting large-scale tertiary care capacity and high clinical activity.

Clinical Excellence & Academic Leadership

Renji Hospital supports multidisciplinary diagnosis, treatment, and academic medicine through 13 nationally recognized key clinical specialties, including gastroenterology, obstetrics, cardiology, neurosurgery, general surgery, urology, nephrology, radiology, rheumatology, allergy, transplantation, and critical care medicine. The hospital also hosts national-level research platforms, including the National Key Laboratory of Oncology Systems Medicine and the Ministry of Health Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology. Additional programs include multidisciplinary initiatives for end-stage liver disease in children and adults, a flagship nephrology department integrating Chinese and Western medicine, and national institutions supporting drug clinical trials and anesthesiology research.

Medical Technology & Equipment

Renji Hospital supports advanced diagnosis, surgery, oncology, imaging, and clinical research through a range of medical technologies and precision treatment systems. Its infrastructure includes dual-source photon counting CT, PET-CT, PET-MR, da Vinci robotic-assisted surgery systems, X-ray stereotactic radiotherapy and tomotherapy systems, linear accelerators, a 320-row 640-slice ultra-fast spiral CT scanner, hybrid operating rooms, and a telemedicine teaching platform supporting clinical collaboration and medical education.

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Shanghai