Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences (“GAMS” for short) was reset up in May 2008 to boost the clinical research of Guangdong and merged with GGH. Affiliated with GAMS/GGH are Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Geriatric Institute, Guangdong Mental Health Institute, Guangdong Eye Institute, Guangdong Lung Cancer Institute and Guangdong Neuroscience Institute. Moreover, the hospital has strong capacity in medical treatment, rehabilitation, teaching and research.
In 2004 Ta Kung Pao in Hong Kong made a survey among Hong Kong readers, Guangdong General Hospital was honorably rated as “the Most Trustworthy Medical Institution in Mainland China”.
GGH has 37 specialties. Cardiovascular surgery, cardiology, lung cancer treatment are the key specialties of Guangdong and pediatric cardiology, nephrology, geriatrics, psychological medicine and image science are distinctive specialties of Guangdong. East Zone (Dong Bing Qu) is the biggest healthcare base for high-ranking officials in Guangdong and has provided excellent medical service for national leaders of foreign countries.
With fast response, strict discipline, advanced technique, sophisticated equipment, GGH has rich experience in dealing with emergent severe diseases and outstanding performance in large rescue missions, winning commendations from the government and high praise of the public. The hospital has participated in medical care missions of various large international conferences and sports events held in Guangzhou. With about 160 ICU beds in different specialties, the hospital has strong power in emergent and severe diseases management and the number of severe patients treated has been largest over the years in China.
During SARS period in 2003, GGH was the only designated hospital in Guangdong for accepting foreign patients, achieving excellent result of no infection of medical workers and no death of patients. Later on the hospital is also the only designated hospital for accepting foreign patients who get infected with bird flu and H1N1 virus. GGH is honorably designated for medical care of the officials by 2010 Olympic Council of Asia. Consuls and members of foreign chambers ever paid visits to the hospital.
Concord Medical Center has established credibility home and abroad ever since its founding, it has won acknowledgment from established direct billing program with over 30 international insurance companies, thereby gaining good experience in providing medical care to foreign patients.
Since 1982 Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute has been appointed for five times by WHO as its research and cooperation center in China. The institute develops in an all-round way in cardiac surgery, cardiology for adults and children and has been keeping the leading position in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases in China, making it one of the three biggest centers in this field in China. The institute also has two provincial key laboratories: lab of coronary heart disease research and lab of RF/RHD clinical research.
Lung cancer therapy is taking the lead in China and Geriatric Institute is the largest center for geriatric prevention and treatment. Other specialties also keep their superiorities in specific areas, including respiration intervention, hematology, hepatobiliary surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, endocrinology, orthopedics, psychological medicine, psychosomatic medicine, osteoporosis prevention and treatment, burns, radiology, ophthalmology, and vitiligo disease.
GGH is among the best non-affiliated hospitals. In the past three years, 500 government scientific projects have been undertaken, including 48 national projects; 179 clinical trials have been carried out, including 35 large international multi-center clinical trials.
At present, 15 person/times are taking the positions of chairmen/chairwomen or vice chairmen/chairwomen of national academic associations/committees and 101 persons/times at the provincial level. The hospital has a post-doctoral station, two doctoral disciplines of cardiac surgery and cardiology and four master disciplines: cardiac surgery, cardiology, pediatric cardiology and oncology. GAMS/GGH is the teaching hospital for eight universities. Moreover, each year over 700 doctors from secondary or primary hospitals get training here. The teaching quality has received wide acclaim.
GGH has extensive international exchange with USA, Canada, European countries, Japan, Australia and etc. Ninety percent of the chiefs of our specialties ever got trained abroad and those with senior professional titles have experience of attending international academic conferences.
The hospital will take the momentum of health reform to strive for building an ever better medical center for the public.
所获荣誉:
十一.五”以来共获省科学技术奖14项, 其中一等奖3 项
先进设备:
PET/CT、PET、MR、 256层螺旋CT等一大批先进的医疗设备,总值8.7亿多元。
乘车路线:
行车路线(外地患者):火车站路线:乘坐5路、203路在越秀公园换乘211路在省人民医院下车; 行车路线(本地患者):乘坐公交76路、112路、211路、76A路、夜4路、93路、548路、542路、864路、45路在省人民医院下车