The Changzhou Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, which combines medical care, health care, teaching, and scientific research, was founded in 1981. The Ministry of Health designated it as a grade III level maternal and pediatric hospital in 2007 and the initial national "baby-friendly hospital" group. The hospital has also received certification as a national mother-baby-friendly hospital, a regional demonstration hospital for post-abortion care (PAC), a base for long-term contraception demonstration, a national advanced collective for women's contributions, and etc. In the 2022 national performance assessment of maternal and child health institutions, this hospital received an A++ rating.
It currently has a building area of 120,000 square meters, a land area of 100 acres, and 1,380 parking spaces. The actual number of beds in use is 640, compared to a designed bed capacity of 1000. 1111 people work there, including 987 health technicians. It adopts a complex departmental structure with four important business divisions set up, including the divisions for maternal health, child health, women's health, and reproductive health.
More than 1.13 million people receive outpatient treatment each year. More than 36,000 patients have been discharged. Each year, almost 10,000 babies are born, and nearly 22,000 surgeries are performed. It is now a center in Changzhou and the surrounding areas for the diagnosis and treatment of complex and serious diseases in gynecology, obstetrics, and neonatology. In Jiangsu Province, it has developed three important clinical specializations as well as three essential mother and child health disciplines. Furthermore, it has established the "Changzhou branch of Jiangsu Province newborn disease screening center," the "Jiangsu Province maternal critical care center," the "Changzhou prenatal diagnosis center," the "Changzhou reproductive medicine center," the "Changzhou premature baby treatment center," the "municipal neonatal critical care center," the "Changzhou PAC alliance," the "Changzhou maternal and newborn disease screening center," the"Changzhou maternal and child health capacity training center," the "national pilot unit of labor analgesia", and the "Jiangsu Province labor analgesia technology training base" etc.
This hospital relocated to its current location in the Zhonglou district after February 2019. Some internal and surgical departments, such as the respiratory, cardiology, urology, orthopedic, gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, gastroenterology, and neurology wards, have been gradually established. And some associated outpatient services also included.
The hospital's core values of "Integrity, Dedication, Harmony, and Innovation" are always upheld by the entire team. They want to develop an innovative maternal and child health center and a medical center in Changzhou by adhering to the hospital's cultural values of "Recognition, Maintenance, Perseverance, and Dedication." Every effort has been taken to create a hospital that is of high quality, humanistic, and wise.
Department of gynecology
This department is the key specialty of Jiangsu Province, the key specialty of Changzhou, and the key discipline of Nanjing medical university. It offers gynecological oncology, general gynecology, fertility technologies, family planning, and cervical illnesses as specializations. It primarily performs comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of benign and malignant gynecological cancers, gynecological endocrinology, gynecological pelvic floor illnesses, and female reproductive system anomalies. Minimally invasive procedures, such as single-hole laparoscopy and non-invasive hysteroscopy, are commonly used in the department of gynecology. It is one of Changzhou's first units to be certified in class IV gynecological endoscopic surgery.
The cervical disease diagnosis and treatment center is the solely demonstration site in Changzhou for the national promotion project of cervical cancer prevention and pre-cancerous lesion standardized diagnosis and treatment, as well as the teaching and training base for special cervical lesion and cervical cancer prevention and treatment techniques.
Department of obstetrics
This department is a key clinical speciality in Jiangsu Province, as well as a critical medical specialty and discipline in Changzhou. It has made full use of the peculiarities and advantages of municipal maternal and child health care facilities to provide a comprehensive spectrum of perinatal health care services to women in Changzhou and the neighboring areas. The characteristics of the speciality are expressed in four areas: diagnosis and treatment of high-risk pregnancies and obstetric critical diseases, humanized delivery services, perinatal health care services, and prevention and treatment of birth abnormalities. It has formed a medical alliance with several hospitals, with specialists dispatched to the countryside for an extended period of time to support and promote relevant technologies, and subordinate employees received for additional training.
Department of neonatology
This section has extensive clinical experience treating critically ill neonates with conditions such as severe neonatal asphyxia, respiratory distress syndrome, multiple organ failure, premature low weight infants, and premature ultra-low weight infants. The lightest weight infant successfully treated is 660g and the lowest gestational weeks of the newborn is 24+1 weeks.
Reproductive medicine center
In 2003, the Reproductive Medicine Center became the first medical institution in Changzhou City to carry out in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF/ICSI) technology, and it mainly focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of various infertility illnesses. Outpatient visits exceed 80,000 per year, and over 10,000 IVF/ICSI treatment cycles have been completed. The clinical pregnancy rate among women under 30 years old is 63.2% per transplantation cycle, which is higher than the Jiangsu Province average.
The department of medical genetics
This department is a key maternal and child discipline in Jiangsu Province, as well as a key clinical specialization in Changzhou. As Changzhou's prenatal diagnosis center and Jiangsu Province's newborn illness screening sub-center, it ranks among the top in the province in clinical genetic disease diagnosis, prenatal diagnosis, genetic consultation, as well as scientific research. It focuses on "birth defect prevention and treatment," "serious genetic diseases," and "fetal medicine," and forms a department with "eugenic genetic." It has built the pillar brands of prenatal diagnosis, newborn disease screening, and genetic disease diagnosis and therapy. It has received the designations of "Changzhou high technology research key laboratory," "Changzhou translational medicine center," and "Changzhou key medical laboratory."
Health care department
The health care department has taken on the management of maternal and child health information, maternal and child public health project management, operational management of maternal and child health institutions, and technical guidance at the grassroots level in Changzhou. It has also helped health administration departments develop policies for maternal and child health care.