Changsha Central Hospital

Changsha Central Hospital is a tertiary Grade-A comprehensive hospital integrating medical care, emergency services, healthcare, rehabilitation, scientific research, and teaching. In January 2019, it became a directly affiliated hospital of the University of South China. The hospital's predecessor was the first tuberculosis specialist sanatorium in Hunan Province, founded in 1929. On June 1, 2000, it was established through the merger of the former Changsha Second Hospital, Fifth Hospital, Emergency Station, and Geriatric Medicine Research Institute. The hospital consecutively received A-level ratings in the national tertiary public hospital performance assessment in 2022 and 2023. In August 2024, it became a construction unit for Hunan Provincial Public Hospital High-Quality Development Demonstration Hospital. The hospital covers an area of 180 mu with a building area of 192,500 square meters, has 2,363 beds, 92 clinical and medical technology departments, and 2,871 employees. The Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine is a National Clinical Key Specialty construction project, while Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Emergency Medicine are National Clinical Key Specialty cultivation projects, with 15 provincial clinical key specialties. The Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, formerly the first tuberculosis specialist sanatorium in Hunan Province founded in 1929, established the only hospital-within-hospital "Changsha Pulmonary Hospital," with 5 respiratory wards, 1 RICU, 1 respiratory endoscopy department, 247 beds, and over 60,000 annual outpatient visits. The hospital has been approved for five national centers: China Chest Pain Center, China Heart Failure Center, National Advanced Stroke Center, China AF Center, and China Hypertension Target Center, as well as National Drug Clinical Trial Base, National Clinical Pharmacist Training Base, and National Standardized Residency Training Base. The hospital signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the International Emergency Management Society Medical Committee (TEMC), being the only TEMC strategic cooperation agreement signing unit among municipal hospitals. As an affiliated hospital of the University of South China, it trains doctoral and master's students with over 1 million annual outpatient visits.