Chongqing Public Health Medical Treatment Center

Chongqing Public Health Medical Treatment Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Center") was established in 2008 through the merger of the former Chongqing Chest Hospital and Chongqing Infectious Disease Hospital. In December 2018, the Center was officially signed and inaugurated as "Southwest University Affiliated Public Health Hospital". The Center currently has fixed assets of over 400 million yuan, more than 1,000 open beds, and over 950 on-the-job employees, including 860 professional and technical personnel; more than 300 with intermediate and senior professional titles, including 120 with senior titles, 10 PhDs, and 87 master's degree holders. The Center has two campuses, Gele Mountain and Pingdingshan, forming a pattern of one body with two wings. Among them, the Gele Mountain campus is the infectious disease campus, with more than 20 clinical and medical technology departments including 5 tuberculosis wards, 3 infection wards, thoracic surgery, general surgery and orthopedics, general internal medicine, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, and critical care medicine; the Pingdingshan campus of the Center is a comprehensive campus, covering nearly 20 clinical and medical technology departments including various surgical and internal medicine specialties, emergency medicine, digestive and liver diseases, obstetrics and gynecology, anesthesiology, and critical care medicine.
The Center is Chongqing's only tertiary infectious disease specialty hospital and has become the most authoritative institution for the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases in Chongqing; it is the Chongqing Tuberculosis and AIDS Medical Quality Control Center and the Clinical Base of the China Hepatitis Research Center; the Center's Infection Department and Respiratory (Tuberculosis) Department have successfully been approved as Chongqing Clinical Key Specialty Construction Projects, and "Traditional Chinese Medicine Infectiology" has successfully been approved as a Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Key Discipline Construction Project. The Center has a National Drug Clinical Trial Institution, a National Key Laboratory for Traditional Chinese Medicine Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, and a Chongqing Postdoctoral Research Workstation. In 2018, the Center was approved for 1 general project of the National Science and Technology Major Project during the "13th Five-Year Plan"; in the past three years, it has cumulatively been approved for nearly 40 national and bureau-level scientific research projects, with cumulative funding of more than 30 million yuan. It has published more than 300 academic papers, including 13 SCI papers.
Today's Public Health Center is striving solidly toward the goal of becoming a provincial-level infectious disease treatment center and a tertiary Grade A comprehensive hospital characterized by the treatment of infectious diseases, integrating clinical practice, scientific research, and teaching, and being authoritative in Chongqing, leading in Southwest China, first-class in the country, and influential globally!