The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University is located in the ancient city of Gusu, which is characterized by "small bridges and flowing water", with an elegant environment and convenient transportation. After 120 years of construction and development, has now become a complete range of disciplines, strong technical force, advanced equipment, excellent diagnostic and treatment conditions, high academic level, good medical ethics and medical style of medical care, scientific research, teaching, prevention and protection in one of the large-scale comprehensive hospitals for the provincial-level hospitals in Jiangsu Province, and the first batch of through the Ministry of Health assessed the level of three-class A hospitals. The hospital covers an area of 88,000 square meters and has 1,727 beds, with an outpatient and emergency treatment volume of 1,105,500 in 2004, 33,900 discharges, 14,600 elective surgeries, and a bed utilization rate of 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 first-class domestic diagnostic, treatment and 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-digital cardiovascular imaging system.
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 Jiangsu Branch of China Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donor Bank 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. Hematology, Orthopedic Surgery, Cranial Neurosurgery and Cardiovascular Disease are the key medical disciplines of Jiangsu Province "135" project, and Clinical Immunology Laboratory is the key medical laboratory of Jiangsu Province "135" project. The Department of Ophthalmology is also full of talents and is the most powerful clinical department in Suzhou area.
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 the training of 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 employees, 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.
The diagnosis and treatment level of the hospital is constantly improving, and the pattern of hospitals having key points, sections having specialties, and people having specialties has basically been 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 shaping, spinal pedicle root endoprosthesis technology, target vascular embolism followed by surgical treatment of sacral tumors, cerebrovascular aneurysm clipping, non-stop cardiac heart bypass grafting, New technologies and therapies, such as artificial liver support therapy system, have reached the provincial, domestic or international advanced level respectively. The hospital has established a comprehensive laboratory as the main body and specialized laboratories matching with the provincial and municipal clinical key specialties, and the comprehensive laboratory and tumor laboratory are the key medical laboratories in the city. The hospital has built kidney transplantation, hemodialysis, tumor biotherapy center and municipal clinical pharmacy center.
The hospital has always attached importance to scientific research in the etiology and pathogenesis of leukemia, vascular pseudohemophilia pathogenesis and clinical typing research, human leukemia drug resistance characteristics, mechanism and reversal and its application of research, experimental research on hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell transgenesis, brain neurobiochemistry, brain tumors, molecular biology, gene diagnosis and treatment of research, platelet physiology, thrombosis and hemostasis, basic and clinical research, cardiomyocyte cell transplantation. Basic and clinical research, cardiomyocyte electrophysiology, membrane ion channel and receptor correlation research, heart transplantation immune tolerance experiments and other areas of research in the field of significant achievements, some fill the gaps in the country, and some have reached and close to the world's advanced level. Since 1978, *** has won more than 400 scientific research awards, including 8 national scientific and technological awards, more than 200 at the ministry and provincial levels, and more than 300 at the municipal and departmental levels. Prof. Chen Zixing and other single papers by SCI search since 1995 for three consecutive years the number of international citations ranked first in the country; in 2002 SCI ranked 30th in the national medical institutions, the first in Jiangsu Province; in 2004 by the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Prof. Tang Tianyi, Prof. Yang Hailin and other presided over the study of scientific research results, "spine posterior transpedicular internal fixation of basic and clinical research", won the national award for scientific research achievements, the first prize of the national scientific and technological achievements. In 2004, the research result "Basic and Clinical Research on Posterior Spinal Transforaminal Internal Fixation" led by Prof. Tang Tianqi and Prof. Yang Huilin of Department of Orthopaedics won the Second Prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress; the doctoral students led by Academician Ruan Changgeng won the National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Prize, which is a breakthrough for Soochow University; and the Institute of Hematology successfully cultivated the world's rare leukemia cell lines, which has made a significant contribution to leukemia research.