It is a comprehensive hospital featuring gastroenterology and anus as its specialties, undertaking medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, prevention and rehabilitation, etc. It is a teaching hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, a designated hospital for basic medical insurance for urban workers in Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City, and undertakes the Chinese Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, and is equipped with a post-doctoral mobile station, a research institute of gastroenterology at Sun Yat-sen University, and a community health service center of Yuancun Street, Tianhe District.
Zhongshan Sixth Hospital is located in the second cross road of Yuancun, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, located in the center of Guangzhou City, adjacent to the Tianhe District Government, Tianhe Park, Zhujiang New City, and Pazhou Convention and Exhibition Center across the river. It is close to the entrance and exit of Guangzhou Metro Line 5, Yuancun Station, the entrance and exit of South China Express Trunk Line, and near Huangpu Avenue and the developing Huacheng Avenue and Linjiang Avenue, which makes the transportation very convenient.
Zhongshan Sixth Hospital has 638 employees on staff, including 16 professors and chief physicians, 59 associate professors and associate chief physicians, and 25 people with doctoral degrees. The hospital has a full range of clinical departments, including 12 secondary disciplines and 28 tertiary disciplines, such as internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, ear, nose and throat, stomatology and traditional Chinese medicine. The number of beds is 303 and the number of open beds is about 460. It covers an area of about 28,000 square meters with 26,000 square meters of business premises.
As a clinical teaching base of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhongshan Sixth Hospital undertakes clinical teaching tasks for undergraduates and postgraduates of multiple disciplines as well as advanced trainees from all over the country, and has a post-doctoral mobile work site; it has a number of academic backbones of excellence, doctoral supervisors, and master's supervisors.