Wuxi Fourth People's Hospital was built in 1976. It has 1,249 employees, including 119 senior titles, 50 full and associate professors, and 19 master tutors. The number of beds is 873, and the actual number of open beds is 1015. The hospital has become a modernized comprehensive hospital in Wuxi area integrating medical treatment, teaching and research and focusing on tumor prevention, early diagnosis, comprehensive treatment and follow-up. Wuxi No.4 People's Hospital has more than 40 clinical and medical departments including internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, stomatology, anesthesia, pathology, imaging, etc. It is the first hospital in Wuxi to establish a tumor department. The hospital is the earliest hospital in Wuxi to establish oncology department. After thirty years of construction and development, the oncology department was recognized as the first municipal key clinical specialties in Wuxi in 1992 and the first provincial key clinical specialties in Jiangsu Province in 2000. The hospital has set up clinical and technical departments such as medical oncology, radiotherapy, combined traditional Chinese and western medicine oncology, gastrointestinal oncology, breast diagnosis and treatment center, thyroid oncology, lumpectomy oncology, gynecological oncology, cardia-esophageal oncology, lung surgery, central laboratory, etc. In 2007, the total number of outpatient and emergency room consultations in the hospital was 606,351, and the number of discharges was 28,150, of which 14,225 were benign and malignant tumors, with annual surgeries of 14,225, and the number of operations of 14,650. In 2007, the total number of outpatient and emergency visits of the hospital was 606,351, and the number of discharged patients was 28,150, among which the number of benign and malignant tumor patients was 14,225, and the number of surgeries in 2007 was 9,731, among which the number of malignant tumor surgeries was 3,166, and the number of patients receiving radiotherapy was 37,000, and the number of radiotherapy sessions was 120,000, and the number of patients receiving chemotherapy was 6,000. The hospital has now become the largest tumor hospital in Southern Jiangsu Province, carrying out a large number of advanced medical technologies at home and abroad, such as tumor conformal intensity-modulated radiation therapy, intraoperative radiotherapy, peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, minimally invasive surgery and interventional therapy, bio-immunotherapy, and breast reconstruction in the same period of time.
Wuxi No.4 People's Hospital has CT, MRI, DSA, ECT, LA, color ultrasound, large biochemical analyzer and other large-scale tumor diagnosis and treatment equipment.