Xiangtan Health School was founded in 1915, its predecessor is Hunan private Guangde Senior Nursing School. It is located in the center of Xiangtan city on the Xiangjiang River and the shore of Yuhu. The school covers an area of 78 acres, the school building area of more than 45,000 square meters, &127; campus environment is beautiful, for the city "garden unit", the province "civilized health unit". 1992 in the province's assessment of secondary schools were rated as a school. In 1995, the provincial people's government awarded "Hunan Province, the key general secondary schools" title, is the country's eight, the province's only school to participate in the United Nations Development Program nursing development program.
The school has strong teachers, full-time faculty with senior titles above 43 people, 81 people with intermediate titles, the proportion of bachelor's degree in the faculty in the province's top secondary health schools. School fixed assets of 45 million yuan, of which the total value of experimental instruments 4.9 million yuan, there are 78 rooms for experiments, &127; equipped with modern computer and voice teaching equipment. The school has an affiliated hospital, for the city employees medical insurance designated unit, is a set of medical, teaching functions in one of the comprehensive hospital.
The school's secondary school department has community medicine, Chinese medicine, maternal and child health, dentistry, dental craft technician, health education, pharmacy, nursing, medical testing, midwifery, case management specialties; post-secondary school department has opened the University of Advanced Nursing, Maternal and Child Health, Clinical Medicine, and Vocational University of Health Education specialties. At present, there are more than 1800 students in school. Founded several decades **** for the country to cultivate intermediate medical and health care technical personnel more than 38,000 people, higher specialized personnel &127;more than 3,000 people.