General Hospital of Yangtze River Shipping

Established in 1954, the General Hospital of Yangtze River Shipping, also known as the Wuhan Neurology Hospital, is affiliated with the Yangtze River Navigation Administration of the Ministry of Transport. It is a non-profit, comprehensive, Grade 3 hospital that integrates medical services, teaching, research, and preventive healthcare. The hospital comprises three outpatient clinics, a disease prevention and control center, five 120 emergency stations, one 122 emergency station, and over ten medical consortium units. It also undertakes government-directed assistance to a Grade 2A hospital and three community health service centers. The hospital serves as the waterborne emergency rescue hospital in Hubei Province, an affiliated hospital and graduate workstation of Wuhan Polytechnic University, a teaching hospital for Wuhan University School of Medicine, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, and Xinxiang Medical University, and a standardized training base for resident physicians in Hubei Province. It is designated as a medical insurance hospital at both the provincial and municipal levels and a hospital for emergency treatment of traffic accidents. It is also a national-level primary chest pain center, a national-level stroke center, a high-level stroke center in Wuhan, and a trauma treatment center. Additionally, it collaborates with the Beijing Temple of Heaven Hospital, Berlin Hospital in Germany, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The hospital's departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Rehabilitation Medicine, and Geriatrics are clinical key specialties in Hubei Province. Clinical Pharmacology is a key specialty under construction in Hubei Province. Cardiovascular Medicine, Oncology, Dermatology, and Radiology are clinical key specialties in Wuhan. The Department of Critical Care Medicine is a key specialty under construction in Wuhan. The hospital has established a comprehensive team and is a leading center in Hubei Province. It has pioneered the establishment of pediatric neurosurgery, functional neurosurgery, stroke units, neurointervention, neurorehabilitation, and a sleep center within the province. The hospital has led the way in multidisciplinary care clinics such as dizziness, memory, sleep, headache, epilepsy, and Parkinson's disease. It has successfully conducted microsurgeries on intracranial and intraspinal tumors covering all areas, including brainstem tumors, thalamic tumors, third ventricular tumors, and intramedullary tumors. The hospital also excels in treating intracranial aneurysms and vascular malformations, intractable epilepsy, trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm, pediatric congenital malformations, cranial trauma, hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage, and other surgical procedures. The hospital's "Stroke Center" integrates medical resources, including neurology, neurosurgery, neurointervention, emergency, critical care, rehabilitation, nursing, and medical technology. It has established a multidisciplinary collaborative system that includes prehospital emergency response for stroke, green channel treatment during the acute phase, early rehabilitation, secondary prevention, follow-up, and health education. This system achieves efficient and standardized treatment of acute stroke.

With strong support from the National Development and Reform Commission, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in Germany, and the Sino-German Health Organization, the hospital has engaged in comprehensive cooperation with the Berlin Hospital in Germany in the field of neurorehabilitation medicine since 2011. In 2017, the first "GSOR-Germany-China Online Rehabilitation" project in the central China region was initiated. In 2019, an agreement was signed with the German Rehabilitation Neurology Association and the Sino-German Medical Training Center to promote cooperation in the field of rehabilitation. The hospital is committed to building a first-class integrated rehabilitation medical service system in central China, with a focus on neurorehabilitation, by applying new concepts, first-rate technologies, and advanced equipment, and integrating both traditional Chinese and Western medicine, thereby fully demonstrating its unique characteristics.

The hospital's other key departments include General Surgery, Urology, Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, and Endocrinology. It has been at the forefront of adopting advanced medical technologies in the region, including extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), atrial septal defect closure, pulmonary vascular intervention, His bundle pacing, left atrial appendage closure, radiofrequency ablation, cardiac resynchronization therapy with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (CRT-D) implantation, total hip and knee replacement, unilateral double-channel endoscopic spine surgery, external pelvic ring reduction with percutaneous screw fixation, laparoscopic surgery for gastrointestinal, liver, and biliary diseases, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), bronchoscopy, holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP), transperineal prostate biopsy, bronchoscopic diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, artificial liver, blood purification, hemodialysis, and hemofiltration, among others.

The hospital is well-equipped with a range of medical devices, including the only multi-chamber hyperbaric oxygen chamber group in central China, a 3.0T MRI machine, interventional digital angiography equipment, a 320-slice dynamic volume CT scanner, mammography equipment, a G4 digital X-ray fluoroscopy system, Zeiss and Lica surgical microscopes, stereotactic navigation systems, German neuroendoscopes, neuronavigation systems, 128-channel video electroencephalogram (EEG) systems, 32-channel intraoperative EEG monitoring systems, color Doppler ultrasound systems, autologous blood recovery machines, various endoscopes, multiple fully automated biochemistry analyzers, radiofrequency surgical systems, laparoscopy equipment, and new lithotripters, among other state-of-the-art medical devices.

Hospital Address: 5 Huiji Road, Jiang'an District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China (280 Macau Road, 740 Jiangu Road)

Subway Stations: Line 3, Line 6, and Line 7 at Xianggang Road Station (Exits D and E)

Contact Phone: +86 27-82423456, +86 27-82426436 (24-Hour Emergency Line)