In 1957, the hospital was designated by the Ministry of Health as a national cardiothoracic surgery training base, and has been a teaching hospital of Shanghai Second Medical University since 1988, Shanghai Red Cross Chest Hospital since 2004, and Affiliated Hospital of Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 2005. The hospital has been awarded "Shanghai Top Ten Units of Professional Ethics Construction", "Civilized Unit of Municipal Health System", "Civilized Unit of Municipal" and other awards.
The hospital has strong technical force, with 10 clinical departments including cardiology, cardiothoracic, pulmonary, thoracic, combined traditional Chinese and western medicine, emergency medicine, radiotherapy, anesthesia and intensive care, and 13 medical and technical departments such as radiology, pathology, nuclear medicine, ultrasound diagnosis, etc.; 580 beds are authorized, and there are 16 hospital wards, including 2 special need wards, 1 cadre ward, and ICU and CCU, and the Shanghai Municipal Institute of Chest Tumor Research. There are 16 wards, including 2 special need wards, 1 cadre ward, ICU and CCU.
The hospital has more than 1,000 employees, including 105 chief physicians, more than 50 professors, 21 doctoral supervisors, 21 master's supervisors, and 26 special allowances from the State Council. 10 of them have been selected as "Rising Stars of Medicine", "Trans-Century Discipline Leader Training Program" and "New Star of Shanghai Municipal Health System" respectively. Ten of them have entered the "Rising Stars of Medical Academy", "Trans-century Discipline Leader Training Program" and "Shanghai Excellent Young and Middle-aged Medical Talents Training Program" of Shanghai Health System respectively. The hospital has advanced medical equipment, including DSA, multi-row spiral CT, ECT, linear gas pedal, simulation positioning machine, three-dimensional treatment planning system, multi-leaf collimator, color Doppler echocardiography, automatic biochemical analyzer and ICU, CCU monitoring system.
The hospital faces to the whole country and treats more than 140,000 outpatients and inpatients every year. Since the establishment of the hospital, it has carried out more than 80,000 cases of various kinds of thoracic surgeries and more than 6,000 cases of cardiac interventions, and successfully treated and rescued tens of thousands of difficult and critical patients; the hospital carries out the heart, lung, and sternum transplants, coronary bypass grafting, single and double heart transplantation, and other advanced medical equipments. The hospital carries out heart, lung, sternum transplantation, "coronary heart bypass surgery", single and double heart valve replacement, diagnosis and correction of all kinds of complex cardiac malformations, all kinds of lung, esophagus, trachea and mediastinum surgeries, interventional diagnostic treatments for all kinds of cardiac diseases, treatment of intractable heart failure, malignant arrhythmia and large-scale acute myocardial infarction, diagnostic and therapeutic techniques of tracheoscopy and pathological cell and histological tests, etc., which are at the domestic advanced level; early detection and integrated treatment of lung cancer, tracheal surgery, and early detection and comprehensive treatment of lung cancer. The early detection and comprehensive treatment of lung cancer and the innovation of tracheotomy style are at the international advanced level.
The hospital pays attention to the research of basic, applied and developmental topics in specialized fields, and has been awarded 61 scientific research projects at national, ministerial and municipal levels and 43 scientific research prizes since the establishment of the hospital; it has applied for 33 patents of various kinds; and it has also completed the first two leading specialties of Shanghai, namely, "Thoracic Cardiology" and "Pulmonary Oncology", which are the most advanced specialties in China. On the basis of completing the construction of the first two cycles of Shanghai's leading medical specialties "Thoracic Cardiac Surgery" and "Lung Oncology", the hospital is now undertaking the construction of Shanghai Clinical Medical Center of Lung Oncology and Shanghai Key Medical Discipline of Thoracic Surgery, and undertaking the research of a number of national, ministerial, municipal, and departmental level projects.