Wuxi No.2 People's Hospital(Jiangnan University Medical Center)was founded in 1908 and is now a Grade-A Tertiary General Hospital. It is a National Chest Pain Center, National Advanced Stroke Center, National Injury Surveillance Sentinel Hospital, Innovation Center for Basic Medical Research on Intestinal Microecology and Chronic Diseases, Jiangsu Provincial Regional Medical Center for Geriatrics, and Jiangsu Provincial Sports and Health Promotion Center. The hospital houses a National Postdoctoral Research Station, Medical Technology Cooperation Center of Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University & Wuxi No.2 People's Hospital, one of the first China Neuroendoscopy Training Bases, and Jiangsu Provincial Postgraduate Workstation.
The hospital has two campuses (North and South) with 1,800 authorized beds and 2,559 employees. Among them, 903 hold senior professional and technical titles, including 6 professors, 40 associate professors, 91 master and doctoral supervisors, 141 doctors (19 postdoctoral fellows). There are 7 experts receiving special government allowances from the State Council, 1 winner of the 4th "National Famous Doctor - Outstanding Achievement" award, 12 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at provincial and municipal levels, 15 candidates for the 6th and 7th phases of the provincial "333 Project" (including 1 first-level candidate), 13 high-level talents of the provincial "Six Talent Peaks", 10 provincial "Double Innovation Doctors". It also has 2 top medical expert teams, 2 high-end medical expert teams, 2 health leading talents, 4 high-end health talents under the municipal "Taihu Talent Program", and 34 municipal "Hundred Talents Program" talents.
The hospital owns 1 provincial key medical discipline, 20 provincial key clinical specialties, and 8 municipal key clinical specialties. It is equipped with advanced medical facilities such as the latest Da Vinci Surgical Robot, Varian Linear Accelerator, Siemens 3.0T MRI, GE 256-slice Multi-slice Spiral CT, Zeiss Full Femtosecond Surgery System, and Beckman Large-scale Biochemical Immune Assembly Line.
The hospital has been successively awarded the first batch of "National Trustworthy Model Hospitals for People", "Advanced Unit in National Hospital Cultural Construction", "Advanced Unit in National Learning Organization", and "Senior Friendly Hospital". It won the title of "Demonstration Hospital for Improving Medical Services" from the Medical Administration Bureau of the National Health Commission in 2020. It has passed the Level 5 National Electronic Medical Record Assessment and Level 4A National Interoperability Assessment, obtained the Internet Hospital certification, and ranked 41st in the 2023 Smart Hospital HIC Top 100. The hospital has continuously optimized medical services, built the Secretary Online "Code" for Instant Service platform, and fully implemented convenient measures including panoramic outpatient appointment, medical insurance card-free payment, one registration valid for three days, Benevolent Service, and escort-free care, which have received high attention and recognition from the municipal party committee and government.
In recent years, the hospital has made breakthroughs in scientific research capabilities. In the 2023 Annual Chinese Hospital Science and Technology Evaluation Metrics (STEM) Ranking released by the Institute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, the Department of Urology ranks leading in Jiangsu Province and first in Wuxi City; the Department of Dermatology and Department of Nuclear Medicine have ranked among the top 100 nationwide.
The hospital has won 68 scientific and technological awards at all levels, including 1 first prize and 2 third prizes of Jiangsu Science and Technology Award, 1 second prize of Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award, 1 second prize and 5 third prizes of Jiangsu Medical Science and Technology Award, and 35 awards for new medical technology introduction and evaluation from the Jiangsu Provincial Health Commission. It has undertaken 17 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and 358 other scientific research projects at provincial and municipal levels. It has published 71 medical monographs as chief editor or deputy chief editor, 2,426 professional academic papers (including 766 SCI papers and 389 Chinese core papers), and 403 authorized patents.
Relying on the resources and platform advantages of the School of Medicine, Jiangnan University, the hospital will fully accelerate the high-quality development of medical treatment, education and research, strengthen the construction of specialties and disciplines, talent introduction and training, scientific research transformation and teaching level, and strive to be the leader in the reform and development of medical and health services in Wuxi.