Fuwai Hospital

Signature Specialties

Notable Achievements

• The hospital states it has developed into one of the national medical research and education centers integrating clinical care, teaching, research, and prevention, and describes itself as the world's largest cardiovascular disease diagnosis and treatment center.
• Its official introduction reports sustained top national performance, including CMI ranking first nationwide for five consecutive years and first place for five consecutive years in China's tertiary public hospital performance assessment for the specialty surgery group.
• The 2023 surgical annual report documents 18,874 cardiovascular surgical cases, showing extremely high national-scale operative capacity.
• The official introduction highlights domestically developed third-generation full-magnetic-levitation artificial heart work and says the hospital achieved the world's first use of 3D printing technology for percutaneous inferior vena cava type atrial septal defect occlusion.
• The National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases site states that the national center was approved in November 2009, creating an integrated 'center-hospital' structure anchored by Fuwai Hospital.