医院由上海市人民政府与世界健康基金会于上世纪九十年代立项建设，1998年正式建成对外开放。时任国家主席江泽民为医院题写院名，时任美国总统夫人希拉里•克林顿女士亲临为医院开张剪彩。2017年医院获批成为国家儿童医学中心。2018年5月，医院建院20周年之际，美国前总统唐纳德.特朗普夫妇向医院致以贺信。
医院拥有31个临床科室，规划床位规模1500张，实际开放788张。其主要特色有：1、具有良好的国际化发展背景。医院目前与十多个国家的三十多个国际顶尖医疗机构建立了姐妹合作关系，分别组建了8个国际联合实验室/中心/基地。2、总体疾病诊治疑难度位于市级医院前列。拥有6个国家重点学科、国家临床重点专科和若干省部级重点实验室、研究所。小儿心脏中心、血液肿瘤中心是全球最大的儿童诊治中心，医教研结构完善，代表国内该领域最高学科水平。近年来，医院疾病诊治疑难危重度指数（CMI）在全国儿童医院中领先。3.医疗质量处于先进水平。2010年成为国内首家通过JCI国际医院认证的儿童专科医院；2018年问鼎上海市政府质量金奖。4、科技创新成果显著。近年来，获得国家自然科学基金数量位列全国儿童专科医院榜首，先后以第一单位（或第一合作单位）获得国家科技进步奖8项（占全国儿童医院获奖总数一半以上）。5、积极主动承担社会责任。率先在国内创立医务社会工作部（1998年）；率先启动西部、东北地区儿科医护人员培训计划（2002年）；率先开展“一带一路”援助计划（2012年）；率先开展“无哭声计划”（2014年）……分别获得多个荣誉奖项，并于2017年荣获全国文明单位称号。
Introduction of Shanghai Children's Medical Center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Shanghai Children's Medical Center (SCMC) affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medcine was co-founded by Shanghai Municipal People's Government and Project HOPE in the 1990s. It was officially opened in 1998. The then President Jiang Zemin inscribed its name, and Hillary Clinton, the then first lady of the United States, came to the ribbon-cutting ceremony. In 2017, the hospital was granted as National Children's Medical Center. In May 2018, at the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the hospital, former President Donald Trump and the first lady of the United Satates posted a congratulation letter to the hospital.
SCMC has 31 clinical departments, 1500 beds capacity, among which 788 have been put into use. The specialities of the hospital includes: 1. It has very good international background for development. The hospital has partnership with more than 30 top international medical institutions in more than ten countries, and has set up 8 international joint laboratories / centers / bases. 2. The difficult and complicated level of cases diagnosed and treatmented in the hospital is at the forefront of municipal hospitals in Shanghai. It has 6 national key disciplines, national key clinical specialties and several provincial and ministerial-level key laboratories and research institutes.Pediatric Heart Center and Hematological Oncology Center are the world's largest children's diagnosis and treatment centers in the specialties. With well-structured medical education and research, the hospital represents the highest discipline level in the field in China. In recent years, hospital CMI has topped the children’s hospitals in China. 3. Medical quality in leading position. In 2010, the hospital passed JCI International Hospital Certification and was certified as the first children's hospital in China; in 2018, it won Shanghai Municipal Government Quality Gold Award. 4.Significant achievements have been made in sceintific innovation. In recent years, the number of National Natural Science Foundation grant ranked the first of national children's hospital. Successively won 8 National Prizes for Progress in Science and Technology(accounting for more than half of the total awards for children's hospitals nationwide) as the first author’s institution (or first co-author’s institution). 5. Proactively shouldering social responsibilities. The hospital was the first to set up medical and social work department in China (in 1998); the first to launch training programs for pediatric medical personnel in the western and northeastern regions (in 2002); the first to carry out "Belt and Road Initiative" aid program (in 2012); the first to carry out "No Cry Program" (in 2014) ... the hospital won multiple honorary awards, and won the title of National Civilized Unit in 2017.
