Xiangya Hospital, Central South University
中南大学湘雅医院 · also known as 湘雅医院, Xiangya Hospital, Hunan-Yale Hospital
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- An international department plus a substantial verified profile
- Departments
- 3
Central South University, Xiangya School of Medicine
Founded 1906KaifuOverview
Xiangya is one of the two institutions Chinese doctors themselves have long paired as the country's finest, the other being Peking Union Medical College — the saying is "南湘雅,北协和" ("in the south Xiangya, in the north Union"). It was founded on 16 October 1906 by Dr Edward H. Hume of the Yale-China Association as Yali Hospital, one of the earliest Western hospitals in China, and renamed Xiangya in February 1915 when it merged with the co-founded Xiangya Medical College. "Xiangya" is a contraction of 湘 (Hunan) and 雅 (Yale).
It holds 3,500 beds, 111 clinical and medical-technology departments, 5 national key disciplines and 25 national key clinical specialty construction programmes, and hosts the National Health Commission Hepatobiliary & Enteric Studies Research Center.
Its International Medical Center (XIMC) was established in 2014 in cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, which dispatched a resident management consulting team to participate entirely in its preparation and operation, and opened on 21 July 2015. It adopts JCI medical standard procedures.
Verification note: the hospital's English site returns an anti-bot wall to non-browser clients, and its appointment and services pages load content via JavaScript, so we could not read a direct phone number or email. The centre itself is confirmed from the official English site's structure.
Reputation rankings
Positions and grades as published, with the source and year attached.
- Dermatology
Fudan SRCAIH · 2023 · 皮肤科
score 5.472#5 - Geriatrics
Fudan SRCAIH · 2023 · 老年医学
score 3.945#6 - Health Management
Fudan SRCAIH · 2023 · 健康管理
score 4.327#6 - Pathology
Fudan SRCAIH · 2023 · 病理科
score 4.033#6 - Critical Care Medicine
Fudan SRCAIH · 2023 · 重症医学
score 2.427#8 - Neurology
Fudan SRCAIH · 2023 · 神经内科
score 3.436#8
This hospital holds a provincially designated Grade III-A, awarded by the province rather than nationally. It is a real designation and a good sign, but it is not the same award as a national Grade III-A, and the two are printed identically on most English hospital listings.
What this hospital is known for
- Founded 1906 by the Yale-China Association; paired with Peking Union as the country's two finest institutions since 1922
- International Medical Center built with UPMC and adopting JCI procedures
- 5 national key disciplines and 25 national key clinical specialty construction programmes
- 3,500 beds across 111 clinical and medical-technology departments
- Hosts the China Hematopoietic Stem Cell Collection and Transplantation Center
- Hepatobiliary surgery
- Haematology and stem cell transplantation
- Cardiology
- Neurosurgery
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Radiology and interventional medicine
National research programmes and designations
The national mandates China has awarded this hospital. These are field-recognised capability signals — what the state funds, not what we score.
- National clinical research centresince 2016
National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases (Xiangya)
国家老年疾病临床医学研究中心（湘雅医院）
Third batch of national clinical research centres, established 2016; director Professor Lei Guanghua. The department's own page also records it as a national key clinical specialty.
Source: www.xiangya.com.cn/list/6249.html ↗
Departments
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Named clinicians
Which clinicians here actually take international patients — and which are simply senior specialists at a hospital that has an international department.
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Sources and verification
Every official channel this hospital's information was read from, or can be checked against. Verified means we fetched the link ourselves and confirmed it is this hospital's own page.
- Official websiteVerifiedwww.xiangya.com.cn/ · Open ↗
Verified 2026-10-14: first-party fetch or parent-institution statement confirming the domain self-identifies as this hospital (research/hospital-websites-outcome.md).
Link checked Oct 14, 2026
- English pages on the official siteVerifiedwww.xiangya.com.cn/en/ · Open ↗
English section of the hospital's own website, verified during the 2026-10-14 website pass.
Link checked Oct 14, 2026
- International medical services pageVerifiedwww.xiangya.com.cn/list/6376.html · Open ↗
The department's own page, read in the in-app browser on 2026-10-21: the landing page reached from 科室导航 > 国际医疗部, with the page title 国际医疗部-中南大学湘雅医院. The site answers a plain fetch with a 412 challenge page, so it can only be read in a browser. The hospital's English site names the unit 'Xiangya International Medical Center (XIMC)'.
Link checked Oct 21, 2026
- Reputation rankingVerifiedwww.fdygs.com/news2019-1.aspx · Open ↗
Fudan University Institute of Hospital Management's published list. Fudan prohibits reproducing the tables without written consent, so positions are reported with attribution rather than copied.
Link checked Aug 15, 2026
- Contact page on the hospital's own siteVerifiedwww.xiangya.com.cn/ · Open ↗
The address published here was read from the hospital's own pages. The page that carries it could not be identified from here -- the site renders its contact block with script -- so this row points at the hospital's own site, which is where the address came from.
Link checked Oct 14, 2026