The hospital was established in 1921 as the
Country Hospital, 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. After the founding of the
People's Republic of China in 1949, the
People's Liberation Army took over the hospital in October 1950. In August 1951, Huadong Hospital, then with 60 beds, was established on the site of the Country Hospital, dedicated to treating high-ranking government and military officials, distinguished experts and professors, and foreign diplomats and visitors. In 1987, it became a teaching hospital of the
Shanghai Medical College, which is now the medical school of
Fudan University. and
Wang Danfeng, spent their final years in the hospital. == References ==