Scale of the First Affiliated Hospital

The hospital covers an area of 88,000 square meters, with 1087 open beds. 2004 outpatient and emergency treatment volume was 1,105,500, the number of discharges was 33,900, the number of elective surgery cases was 14,600, and the bed utilization rate reached 109.3%. The hospital focuses on the introduction of medical technology and the updating of medical equipment, and constantly improves the scientific and technological connotation and level of medical quality. There are 1,464 sets of medical equipments above 10,000 yuan, including 402 sets of equipments above 100,000 yuan, and the hospital owns domestic first-class diagnostic and treatment and scientific research equipments such as multi-row CT, multi-row high-speed spiral CT, computerized X-ray imaging system, color B-type ultrasound diagnostic instrument, 1.5-megabyte MRI, DSA, and flat-panel all-digitized cardiovascular imaging system, and so on.

The hospital has a complete set of departments and strong technical force. It has 30 clinical departments, 7 medical and technical departments, 19 teaching and research departments of clinical medicine, and 15 research laboratories of cerebral nerve and cardiovascular diseases. There are Jiangsu Blood Research Institute, HLA Matching Laboratory of China Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donor Bank Jiangsu Branch, and Organ Transplantation Center attached to the university. Hematology is a national key discipline; Hematology, Cardiovascular Medicine, Respiratory Medicine, Neurosurgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, General Surgery, Urological Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Infectious Diseases, Anesthesiology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine are the key clinical specialties of Jiangsu Province; Hematology, Orthopedic Surgery, Cranial and Neurological Surgery, Cardiovascular Disease are the key medical disciplines of Jiangsu Province under the "135" project. The Department of Hematology, Orthopedic Surgery, Cranial Neurosurgery and Cardiovascular Disease are the key medical disciplines of Jiangsu Province's "135" project, and the Clinical Immunology Laboratory is the key medical laboratory of Jiangsu Province's "135" project.

Suzhou University Department of Clinical Medicine, Department of Imaging Medicine, Department of Nursing, Department of Stomatology is located in the hospital, which is responsible for training doctoral, master's and undergraduate teaching tasks. The hospital has 14 doctoral programs, 23 master's programs, and 1 postdoctoral research station of clinical medicine. The hospital has more than 1700 working staff, more than 260 senior professional and technical positions, and more than 400 intermediate professional and technical positions. It has 1 academician of the Academy of Engineering, 30 doctoral supervisors, 123 master's supervisors, 13 key medical talents of Jiangsu Province's "135" project, and 39 experts enjoying the State Council's special subsidies. The hospital now has more than 90 people were national, provincial and municipal medical science and technology academic organizations, deputy director, member, chairman, deputy director, director and medical journal editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief, editorial board, etc.; has been edited (translated) published 68 medical monographs.

In recent years, the hospital's diagnosis and treatment level has been improving, and the pattern of hospitals having key points, sections having specialties, and people having specialties has been basically formed. Hospital in allogeneic bone marrow transplantation and stem cell transplantation and unrelated allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for the treatment of leukemia, liver transplantation, combined liver and kidney transplantation, heart transplantation, in vitro fertilization, intraluminal plaque spinning, intracoronary stenting, balloon dilatation of conus posterior convexity forming, spinal endoprosthesis technology, target vessel embolism followed by surgical treatment of sacral tumors, cerebrovascular aneurysm clipping, non-stop cardiac heart bypass grafting, Artificial Liver Support Therapy System and other new technologies and therapies have reached the provincial, national or international advanced level respectively.