Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Dalian University was established in 1907. It used to be Eastern Qing Railway Dalian Hospital established by Tsarist Russia at Dalian Shancheng Road (now the Shengli Bridge). In 1907, the Japanese South Manchuria Railways Co. built on its basis one of the largest hospitals in Asia – Dalian Hospital of South Manchuria Railways. In 2005, the hospital was officially affiliated to Dalian University and renamed as Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Dalian University.

Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Dalian University is a comprehensive university affiliated hospital integrating medical prevention, medical treatment, teaching, scientific research and rehabilitation. It has a floor area of 90,000 square meters and the building area is about 200,000 square meters. In 1992, it was promoted among the first batch in Liaoning Province as the national Grade III Class A hospital. The hospital undertakes the teaching tasks of Dalian University, Dalian Medical University and Zunyi Medical University, covering 5 layers and 16 majors for doctor-postgraduates and postgraduates.

There are 2,208 hospital beds and 3,212 staff in the hospital. There are 2,657 health workers, 660 chief physicians and associate chief physicians, 718 doctor-postgraduates and postgraduates, 1 people’s famous doctor, 2 national famous doctors, 6 Liaoning and Dalian famous doctors. 117 clinical and medical departments, 112 expert clinics, 63 specialty clinics, 25 teaching and research offices and 1 clinical skills training center have been set up.

The hospital attaches importance to discipline construction and has 1 national key clinical specialty (Orthopedic Department), 11 provincial key clinical specialties (Orthopedic Department, Oncology Department, Emergency Medicine, Rehabilitation Department, Hepatological Surgery Department, Nursing Department, Intervention Department, Medical Laboratory Science Department, Breast Surgery Department, Infectious Diseases Department, General Surgery Department (Municipal)), 10 Dalian City first-class medical key specialties (Orthopedic Surgery Department, Radiation Oncology Department, Vascular Surgery Department, Emergency Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine Department, Stomatology Department, Respiratory Medicine Department, Hepatological Surgery Department, Cardiovascular Medicine Department, Breast Thyroid Surgery), 1 national key laboratory, 8 Liaoning Province and Dalian City key laboratories, 5 research centers and 3 centers for medical quality control of Dalian City. There is 1 postdoctoral workstation and 1 academician workstation. In 2021, the hospital was approved as the only China-Japan Medical Cooperation Demonstration Hospital in Dalian City. And the Oncology Department, Orthopedics Department, Hepatological Surgery Department and Breast Surgery Department were approved as the Dalian City medical key specialty “Summit Climbing Plan” construction projects.

The hospital drives its development through scientific and technological progress. Over the years, it has undertaken more than 400 national scientific research tasks and obtained more than 200 national level and provincial level awards for scientific and technological advancement and achievements. It has also actively conducted cooperations both at home and abroad, exchanging with well-known medical institutions in the US, Germany, Japan, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Taiwan and Macau.

For years, the hospital has been focused on building a “all in one” intelligent hospital by combining the intelligent medical treatment, intelligent services and intelligent management. In 2014, the hospital was approved as a five-star hospital by the National Health Commission’s “electronic medical record system functional application-level grading evaluation”. In 2015, it was approved as a Grade IV Class A hospital by the National Health Commission’s “hospital information interconnection standardized maturity evaluation”. In 2020, it as approved as a Grade III hospital by the National Health Commission’s “intelligent service grading evaluation”. Meanwhile, Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Dalian University as an expert member of the National Medical and Health IoT Applied Standards Work Group and the Intelligent Medical Collaborative Innovation Center of the Department of Education of Liaoning Province, has built a hospital information platform with electronic medical record as the core and a clinical data center.

Upholding the management philosophy of “putting people first”, the hospital has created a hotel style modern medical environment surrounded by garden areas. Food plaza, supermarket, bathhouse, hair salon, gym, coffee shop, hospital history exhibition hall, Xinhua book store and cultural corridor are all well equipped to meet various needs of patients and their families.

In recent years, the hospital has won the titles of “National Health System Advanced Unit”, “National Cultural and Caring Hospital”, “National Medical Service Improvement Innovation Hospital” and “Liaoning Province Advanced Primary Party Organization”. The hospital ranked top for three consecutive years from 2017 to 2019 in the performance assessment among the public Grade III Class A hospitals in Liaoning Province and ranked at the forefront in the performance assessment among the national public Grade III Class A hospitals (group of no annual financial report).

date：2023/04/07