Huadong Hospital
Huadong Hospital () or East China Hospital, founded in 1921 as the Country Hospital, is a teaching hospital in Shanghai, China, affiliated with the Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University. Its main building, designed by László Hudec, is a Municipal Heritage Building of Shanghai. Overview Huadong Hospital is a teaching hospital of the Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University. As of 2017, it has 1,283 beds and 2,113 employees, including 258 professors and associate professors. Although open to the general public, it mainly serves high-ranking officials, social and scientific elites, and foreign diplomats and visitors, with a specialty in geriatric care. History The hospital was established in 1921 as the Country Hospital, known in Chinese as Hong'en Hospital (宏恩医院). Its main H-shaped building on Great Western Road (now Yan'an Road), opened in 1926, was donated by an anonymous British businessman to the Shanghai Municipal Council, the governing body of the Shanghai International Settlement. Designed by the Hungarian-Slovak architect László Hudec and constructed by the firm Pan Rong Ji (潘荣记), it is now protected as a Municipal Heritage Building of Shanghai. During World War II, large numbers of European Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai. The Country Hospital, under Superintendent Dr. J.