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北京积水潭医院 Beijing Jishuitan Hospital

Geography
Location	31 Xinjiekou East Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, PRC
Organisation
Hospital type	Teaching
Affiliated university	Peking University Health Science Center
Services
Emergency department	I
Beds	1000-odd
Speciality	Orthopedics & Burn
History
Founded	1956
Links
Website	home page
Lists

Beijing Jishuitan Hospital^[1] [1] (JST Hospital; simplified Chinese: 北京积水潭医院; traditional Chinese: 北京積水潭醫院), is a large-scaled first-level hospital in Beijing, focusing mainly on orthopaedics and burn surgery. Founded in 1956, the hospital now has 1000-odd beds. Its advantage in medical care, teaching and researching made it become the Fourth Medical College of Peking University. The hospital now has 200 expert doctors[2] and 2200 working staffs.

Key departments of this hospital lead the leading position in China. Orthopaedics and burn surgery rank among the top in China, even abroad. They have set up Beijing Bone and Arthropathy Researching Center, Beijing Traumotology and Orthopaedics Researching Center, Beijing Hand Surgery Researching Center, Beijing Burn Surgery Researching Center and Post Operative Total Joint Arthroplasty Evaluation Center. The first Orthopaedics Training Center was established here on 27 April 2001.

Over the past 52 years of development, this hospital has won five state-level scientific awards. The hospital has fully equipped departments of Orthopaedics, Spine Surgery[3], Adult Joint Reconstructive Surgery[4], Orthopaedic Trauma[5], Hand Surgery[6], Pediatric Orthopaedics[7], Bone Tumor[8], Sports medicines[9] and Burn Surgery[10].

The hospital holds the faith of “Enthusiasm, Expertise and Elaborateness” to provide the best medical care to the patients.

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