The International Peace Maternity & Child Health Hospital (IPMCH) of China Welfare Institute (CWI), which was founded in 1952 by Mme. Soong Ching Ling, one of the founders of new China, the Honorary President of the People’s Republic of China, the founder of CWI, now is an AAA grade hospital for gynaecology and obstetrics, maternal and children health care, integrating of medicine, health care, education and research. It is also the national “Baby-friendly Hospital”. In 2006, IPMCH became one of the affiliated hospitals of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. Furthermore, IPMCH has insisted on the purpose of “being experimental and demonstrative, enhancing scientific research” and carried forward the guideline of “giving wholehearted service to women and children”, and it has been honored the“National Civilized Unit”, “National Labor’s Day Honorary Medal”, “National Advanced Group Award”，“National Benchmark Unit for Ideological and Political Work in the Health System”.

IPMCH now has 2 campuses, 480 beds approved in Xuhui district and 500 beds approved in Fengxian district, covering a total area of 120 Mu (151,000 m2). It has 1,349 staff members, among them 1,236 are health professionals, and 15.0% of the employees have doctoral degrees. The functional positions of the 2 campuses respectively are “Premium Medical Care” (Xuhui campus), and “Comprehensive Development of Medical Research and Education, High-quality Innovation and Translation” (Fengxian campus). The hospital is equipped with a comprehensive range of large-scale medical devices, emergency care, surgical, imaging, laboratory, genetic diagnostic, and experimental equipment all are from world-leading brands. Advanced Medical Equipment Includes: 3.0T Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) System (world-leading technology), X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) Scanner, Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) System, Hybrid Operating Room with DSA,Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgical System, High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) System and etc. These state-of-the-art facilities ensure precision diagnostics, minimally invasive treatments, and advanced patient care.

Key Specialty Departments include: Obstetrics, Prenatal Diagnosis Center, Fetal Medicine, Neonatology, Child Health, General Gynecology, Gynecologic Pelvic Floor Disorders, Gynecologic Oncology, Reproductive Medicine Center, Cervical Diseases, Family Planning (Fertility Regulation), Breast Diseases, Anesthesiology, Clinical Nutrition, and Preventive Health Care. It has 5 national constructing projects for characteristic specialties of pregnant and prenatal care, neonatal health, female climacterium healthcare, Traditional Chinese Medicine for Women and Children，Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine coordination "flagship" department construction project (Gynecology). Its Obstetrics and gynecology, birth defects, and female tumors are 3 key clinical specialties in Shanghai. The Fertility Center has been admitted by the Ministry of Health and the hospital was authorized the national training institute for gynecologic laparoscope technology. It is the member of the "Belt and Road" gynecological endoscopic surgeon training unit of the National Health Commission. It is the national clinical application pilot unit for PGD and NIPT and it is also the National Twin Pregnancy-Fetoscopy Application Center. IPMCH was authorized the National Standardized Residency Training Hospital, National Training Institute for Midwife, National provincial-level talent training base for birth defects, the Shanghai Birth Defects Prevention and Healthcare Center and the Shanghai Prenatal Diagnosis Technology Quality Control Center. Committed to building an internationally renowned obstetrics and gynecology specialty brand, the hospital established its International Medical Department in 2004, making it one of China's first high-end medical service departments.

Annually, about 1,390,000 outpatients and above 48,000 inpatients get the personalized medical service, including more than 30,000 operations and 14,000 deliveries. IPMCH has distinctive advantages in multidimensional fertility preservation technology, integrated diagnosis and treatment of birth defects during the perinatal period, diagnosis and treatment of fetal intrauterine development abnormalities, multidisciplinary protection of gynecological tumors and endometriosis, and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in gynecology. Both the maternal mortality rate and the perinatal mortality rate maintain at a very low level, which has approached advanced international standards. The diagnostic and treatment capability indicator for gynecological malignant tumors is in a leading position in Shanghai.

It has high-level scientific research and innovation platforms such as the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Embryo Original Diseases, Clinical Research Institute of Birth Defects and Rare Diseases, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, National Center for Translational Medicine (Shanghai) Maternity and Child Health Branch, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Translational Medicine Research Institute, Soong Ching-Ling Maternal and Child health Research Center. The research achievements have been honored with multiple prestigious awards, including the Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, First Prize of Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award, National Major Scientific and Technological Achievement Award, National Maternal and Child Health Science and Technology Award, Soong Ching Ling Pediatric Medicine Award, Second Prize of Chinese Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Award, First Prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, Huaxia Medical Science and Technology Award, Shanghai Medical Science and Technology Award, and Shanghai Science and Technology Popularization Award.

Adhering to its public welfare nature and fulfills its social responsibilities, IPMCH disburse its high-quality maternal and child health medical resources to support several Hospitals in Xinjiang, Yunnan, Nei Monggol, the Yangtze River Delta boasts in China and international medical assistance in the Republic of Vanuatu, and the Kingdom of Morocco. Moreover, IPMCH is one of the organizing units of the first SCO Forum on the Development of Cooperation in the Field of Maternal and Child Health. It also has several exchange and cooperation with world-renowned units such as World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, American Society for Gynecological Endoscopy, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Gates Foundation, Temasek Foundation and University of Sherbrooke, Canada; Columbia University, University of Cincinnati, Marshall University, and University of Louisville, University of Cincinnati, USA; University of Monash, Australasian Association for Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Australia; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

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