Peking Union Medical College Hospital | |
Location: | 1 Shuaifuyuan Wangfujing, Dongcheng District, Beijing |
Country: | China |
Coordinates: | 39.9139°N 116.3681°W |
Healthcare: | Public |
Type: | Teaching, District General |
Emergency: | Yes |
Affiliation: | Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences |
Beds: | 1800 |
Founded: | 1921 |
Website: | www.pumch.cn |
Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH), also known as Beijing Xiehe Hospital, is a large teaching hospital in Beijing, China. It was founded in 1921 by the Rockefeller Foundation and is affiliated to both Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS). During the Cultural Revolution, it was renamed as the "Anti-Imperialist Hospital".
It has two locations: the Dongdan Campus in Wangfujing, Dongcheng District and the Xidan Campus in, Xicheng District.[1]
On September 10, 2002, Peking Union Medical College Hospital merged with Post and Telecommunications General Hospital of the Ministry of Information Industry to become Peking Union Medical College Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.[2] [3]
Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Kuomintang and the Republic of China, died at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital on March 12, 1925. The last emperor of the Qing dynasty, Aisin-Gioro Puyi, died at the hospital on October 17, 1967.