West China School of Medicine/West China Hospital of Sichuan University (WCSM/WCH), SCU

West China Hospital of Sichuan University, known as the West China School of Medicine in its teaching role, is a major public teaching hospital in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It is owned and run by the West China Medical Center of Sichuan University. Founded in 1892, it has grown into the largest single-site hospital in the world, according to Wikipedia.

Nature Index (Springer Nature) ranks it No. 5 in its 2026 Research Leaders table for healthcare institutions, a ranking of research output. Its 2025 Share was 156.95, up 51.6% from 103.51 in 2024, based on a Count of 457. Wikipedia adds that it is regularly placed among the two top hospitals in Chinese hospital assessments.

The hospital grew out of Renji Hospital and Cunren Hospital, set up in 1892 by Western Protestant medical missions, which became teaching hospitals of West China Union University's medical faculty after 1914. A new hospital building opened at the Guoxue Alley site in 1946, and the present structure dates from 2000, when West China University of Medical Sciences was merged into Sichuan University. As of 2026 it reported 4,900 beds on three campuses, 54 clinical departments, 7.64 million outpatient and emergency visits and 220,000 surgical procedures in a year.

Sources of this text: Wikipedia · Nature Index (Springer Nature)