Xiangya Hospital


Xiangya Hospital is a public Grade A tertiary hospital located in Changsha City, Hunan Province, China. It is affiliated to Central South University and directly managed by the National Health Commission. Founded in 1906, Xiangya is one of the oldest hospitals in China. It currently has 3,500 registered beds.

History

In 1906, Edward H. Hume, a young physician from the US Yale-China Association, founded Yali Hospital in Changsha. It was one of the earliest Western hospitals in China.
In 1910, Yan Fuqing, the first Chinese graduating from the Yale School of Medicine, returned to Changsha and started to work with Hume.
In 1914, the Xiangya Medical College was co-founded by the Hunan Yuqun Association and the Yale-China Association. In the next year, Yali Hospital and Xiangya Medical College was merged to form Xiangya Hospital located outside Changsha's North Gate.
In 1922, Xiangya Hospital and Peking Union Medical College were honoured as the two best medical institutions in China. Hence, the saying “In the South Xiangya, in the North Union.”
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, medical workers from Xiangya Hospital treated thousands of casualties and refugees. In 1938 the hospital moved to Yuanling in western Hunan, to Chongqing, and to Guiyang, Guizhou Province.
In 1945, the hospital returned to Changsha, only to find the campus and facilities badly damaged. With the efforts of its faculty and staff, Xiangya was soon resumed for normal operation.
In early 1950s, the link between Xiangya and the Yale-China Association was cut when the Korean War broke out.
In 1979, the partnership between Xiangya and Yale were resumed with the re-establishment of Sino-American diplomatic ties.
In 2000, Xiangya Hospital were merged into Central South University.

Changes of name

In its history of over 100 years, Xiangya has got its name changed quite a few times:
Xiangya has developed into a comprehensive Grade A tertiary hospital with 3,500 beds registered. There are 111 clinical and medical technology departments, 77 inpatient wards and 102 nursing units. In 2021, it received 3.473 million outpatients and emergency visits, discharged 160,000 inpatients, and performed 102,000 operations.