TCM hospitalBeijing
Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
Founded in 1958, Dongzhimen Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine is its First Clinical Medical College. It is among the first batch of national comprehensive tertiary A-level TCM hospitals and national demonstration TCM hospitals, a national TCM clinical research base, WHO training base for appropriate TCM technologies, and a national medical center (TCM guidance category). The hospital follows a 'two campuses, one international department' layout with the Dongcheng campus at No.5 Haiyuncang, Tongzhou campus, and International Department at No.279 Dongsi North Street. It has 1,574 beds, over 2,700 staff members, and handles more than 3 million outpatient and emergency visits annually. It features 6 national clinical key specialties, 5 regional TCM diagnosis and treatment centers, 16 national administration key TCM specialties, and 13 Beijing key specialties. It has established five major centers for encephalopathy, cardiovascular disease, nephrology-endocrinology, orthopedics-traumatology, and respiratory diseases with integrated TCM-Western medicine approaches. Internationally, it established a TCM hospital in Germany in 1991, the first in Europe covered by medical insurance, and manages centers in the US and Australia. It serves as an output hospital for national regional medical center construction.
