Located at the foot of Mount Tai, a world natural and cultural heritage and a national 5A tourist spot, Tai 'an City Central Hospital, first funded in 1948, is a tertiary hospital integrating medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, rehabilitation, prevention and healthcare services.

The hospital currently possesses 3,066 beds. In 2021, it recorded 1.65 million annual outpatient and emergency room visits, 122,000 discharged patients and 39,800 surgical operations.

4300 employees are ready to serve, among whom 570 or so are senior professionals, more than 180 are post-doctoral or doctoral students, above 920 are master students, and over 110 are master supervisors.

The hospital owns a key discipline listed at national level and a national specialized department of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) respectively, 12 key disciplines at provincial level, 1 specialized discipline at provincial level, 1 specialized maternal care department at provincial level of the second group, 2 key disciplines of TCM at provincial level, 5 medical research sub-centers at provincial level, 12 key disciplines at municipal level, 1 key discipline of TCM at municipal level, 1 specialized discipline of TCM at municipal level, a specialized discipline of menopause healthcare and another of newborn healthcare at municipal level.

In 2014, this hospital was authorized as the national standardized resident training base, also the home to a national post-doctoral scientific research station. With the growing incorporation of “National Chest Pain Center”, “National Stroke Prevention Center”, “China Atrial Fibrillation Center”, “China Diabetic Retinopathy Screening and Prevention Center”, “National Cerebral Hemorrhage Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment Base”, “National Standardized Metabolic Disease Management Center (MMC)”, “Supporting Unit of National standardized Cardiac Rehabilitation Center”, “Supporting Unit of Shandong Provincial Chest Pain Center”, “Deputy Director Unit of Shandong VTE Prevention and Treatment Committee”, etc., the hospital has officially become a subsidiary of China Hematology Department, a national strategic supporting unit of Qinsihe Orthopedic Surgery Team, the Tai’an sub-centre of Qilu Hospital Cardiac Remote Monitoring Center, the Tai’an supporting centre of Shanghai institute of craniocerebral injury, and the supporting unit of Orthopedic Surgery Hospital Committee under the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2019, the hospital became a deputy subordinate unit of Shandong Provincial Gynecology Hospital Committee, and officially obtained the membership of China Hernia Clinical Committee to become the first of its kind in Tai’an region. In the same year, its spinal cord injury rehabilitation base was reputed as a “specialized discipline in Shandong Province”. Apart from these, the hospital has a host of distinctive cutting-edges in terms of interventional diagnosis and treatment technology, minimally invasive endoscopic technology, organ transplant technology, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI),etc., the list goes on.

890 million RMB worth of advanced hardware guarantee are available, with access to over 4000 sets of facilities above 10,000 yuan per each, including the purchase of Philips PET-CT, Philips 3.0T nuclear magnetic resonance, GE Ultrafast CT Scanner (UFCT), Varian high-energy linear accelerator, Elekta linear accelerator, Philips Brilliance Nano Panel iCT, Siemens 64-muti detector spiral CT (64-MDCT), Toshiba 64-muti detector spiral CT (64-MDCT), Siemens 3.0T superconductive nuclear magnetic resonance, Siemens 1.5T nuclear magnetic resonance, large angiography apparatus (like GE, Siemens, Toshiba), GE SPECT-CT, High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU), Philips DR, Roche fully automatic biochemistry analyzer, Femtosecond ophthalmology solid-state laser therapeutic instrument, excimer laser therapeutic instrument, color Doppler ultrasound and so on.

Reputed as ‘Tai’an model’ and recommended nationwide as one of the two pace-setting role models (“Tai’an City Central Hospital in the north and Qing Yuan People’s Hospital in the South Guangdong Province) by the China Hospital Management Association, over 8,000 medical and health care units have paid their visits for inspection tours, dedicating greatly to the national healthcare reform. After a thorough reshuffling of leadership in 2019, a new directive guideline of “123106” has been put in place. These six numbers carry with them specific meanings: “1” stands for “1 target” (the aim of establishing a regional medical center at the provincial level), “2” stands for “2 cardinal lines” (attention to disciplinary construction as well as operation management), “3” for “3 promotions” (strengthening party building in public hospitals, deepening structural reform in medical health industry, and carrying on with the perfection of modern hospital management mechanism), “10” refers to “10 giant projects” (high-calibre talent pool construction project, disciplinary construction project, researching hospital construction project, smart hospital construction project, exquisite hospital construction project, group hospital construction project, Taishan medicare center construction project, Qingdao University medical center construction project, Tai’an emergency medical center construction project, Oriental medical center construction project), and “6” goes to “6 centers” (National Stroke Prevention Center, National Chest Pain Center, Severe Trauma Center, Critical Maternal Rescue Center, Newborn Rescue Center, Cancer Center). With equal emphasis on these five perspectives, with forged synergy in coping with shortcomings, and with strong determination to back up weaknesses, the hospital has upgraded its capacity comprehensively to provide quality medical services and pave the way toward high-quality development.

The surrounding construction areas newly built are just like multiple wings of this jet-plane to help it take off and soar. Everything is going smoothly on the right track: the renovation of the central construction area has been initiated, the high-tech construction area was officially put into use in January, 2022, Taishan hospital care center is overwhelmed with no extra beds, Ying Sheng hospital space is also operating in a sound manner. The coordinated regional layout acted as a driving force for the expansion and extension of refined medical resources.

All these unremitting efforts have won this hospital an array of reputable honorary titles, including the “National May Day Labour Award”, the “National nominated unit for building civilized industries”, the “Top 100 demonstration hospitals for the people in China”, the “National healthcare service demonstration hospital”, the “National advanced hospital culture construction unit”, the “National medical service demonstration hospital”, the “Top demonstration hospital for the people in China”, the “Top 100 hospitals in China, 2021”, the “Top 100 hospitals in China, 2020”, the “demonstration hospital for improved health care service, 2020”, the “innovative hospital for improved health care service, 2019”, the “Civilized Unit in Shandong Province”, the “advanced collective of health system in Shandong Province”, the “Demonstration unit for providing high-quality medical service in Shandong Province”, the “Good Hospital to benefit Shandong People”, the “Home of combating Covid-19 in Shandong Province”, the “Advanced Party Organization at the primary level”, the “Ten Red-Banners Holding Collective with ‘Yu Gong-like down-to-earth workers’”, the “National nominated unit for providing standardized medical insurance services”, the “National May 4th Red Flag Youth Corps Committee, 2018”, and the “Award for superb team in health communication practices”, to name a few.

The core value of “life care is weightier than Mount Tai” will always be the hospital’s prolonged commitment, the vision of “seek truth, break new ground, appeal for wonder, call for happiness” will always be the hospital’s ultimate pursuit, and the original aspiration of being named after “center” will always be the hospital practitioners’ reasons for their dedication and devotion. By choosing to “contain a center in its name”, wishing to “become a center in its settings”, and bearing “people-centered philosophy in its supreme healthcare service”, Tai’an City Central Hospital will surely strive to march forward on a new path, with a new aim, for a new self-image and towards a bright new future.