Xiangya hospital of central south university is directly supervised by National Ministry of Health. It is a combination of teaching, research and medical care entities, and one of the curing center for difficult and critical illness. It is one of the leading hospitals in Hunan province, and is fully qualified as baby-friendly hospital by UN. The hospital has been honored as a leading group within the national-wide health care system, one of the top 100 hospitals in the whole country, people assured hospital, advanced National scientific and technological cooperation, model hospital in the national health system,etc. The current hospital director is Prof. Chen Fangping, the current Secretary of the Party is Prof. Tang Youyun.  
  
Xiangya hospital is one of the earliest established western hospitals, Its predecessor is Yali hospital which established in 1906 in Changsha by Dr. Edward Hume who was ommissioned by Yali Association of Yale University of the United States. The Yali hospital was cooperatively established by Hunnan provincial government and Yale Society of United states, it was accepted by Xiangya Medical Society in 1914 and renamed as Xiangya hospital. Xiangya hospital is located at the Xiangya Road of the Changsha, one of the oldest cities with rich historical background in China. In the east side is the Furong Blvd, a main north-south route for traffic, to the west is the Xiang River and the Yuelu Mountain. Xiangya hospital is famous for its beautiful environment, surrounded by numerous modern architectures, and the traditional red building emanates a sense of old history into the air. It is the medical holy land for the cultivation of medical workers, at the meantime it is the ideal place for recuperation of patients. The hundred-year-old hospital has a high reputation for rigorous pursues after knowledge, outstanding medical skills and upbringing of talented medical workers; some famous medical maestros are Tang Feifan, Zhang Xiaoqian, Li Zhenpian. Chairman Mao once made highly compliments to the medical skills of Xiangya hospital and recommended his relatives and friends to go to Xiangya hospital to see the doctor. There are 2154 employees working in the hospital at the moment, 467 of which have at least vice-senior title. There are 1085 beds in the hospital, and the actual capacity reaches 1500 beds. The hospital owns more than 1500 high-tech machines which worth ten thousand yuan each, and they are worth nearly 400 million RMB. The hospital also has strong technology forces and comprehensive clinical medico-technical departments. There are 54 clinical, medico-technical departments, 4 research institutes, 5 research centers, 20 research departments and 1 medical laboratory center. There are 3 research and training centers directly supervised by National Ministry of Health, and they are Research Centers of Liver,Cholecyst and Intestines; Infection monitor centers; and high pressure oxygen training center. There are 2 ministerial-level key laboratories, and they are Nano-technology Laboratory and Proteomics Laboratroy. Also, Neurology , endocrine and cardiothoracic surgery are 3 key nation-approved departments , and ENT, general surgery and integrated Chinese and Western Medicine research institute are province-approved key departments. Clinical medicine, integrated Chinese and Western medicine are the first-class teaching entity for doctoral students, and post-doctoral education center is also established. There are 30 authorization offices for doctoral degree, and 55 qualified tutors for doctoral students. The number of outpatients and emergency cases are over 1.1 million, the number of inpatients is over 40 thousand and the surgeries performed are more than 20 thousand. Xiangya hospital is specialized in organ transplantation, skull base tumor resection, clinical integrated Chinese and western medicine, large area burn, blood disease, interventional radiology, neurology, genetic diseases, cancer prevention and gene diagnosis.

In recent years, a broad range of organ/tissue transplantation is performed, the donor organs/tissue of which include  heart, liver, lung, kidney, pancrease, bone marrow, joint, retina etc. Each year the hospital furthers its development in diagnosis and treatment technology, the new approaches adds up to over 100 annually, and many of them have reached advanced international standard. During the past 3 years, the hospital takes on more than 700 major medical research projects, 70 of which are the National Natural Science Foundation issues, national "863 Program" subjects and the State "15" major scientific and technological research projects, the number of which was among the best of all provincial and nation-wide hospitals. Statistics made in 2004 showed that the number of journal articles jumped to 3rd nationally, compared with the 22nd in year 2000. The advantage has gradually formed in the direction of hospital personnel and scientific researches. Xiangya hospital has had a wide connection with United States, Great Britain,Germany, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan etc, and has made a lot of academic exchanges and cooperation.

It is believed that Xiangya hospital will make ever-faster progress in the new century. Right now a new hospital building is under construction under the investment of 1.2 billion RMB. It is estimated that there will be 2000 beds in the new hospital as well as new medical equipment, the daily outpatients are expected to reach 10 thousand. It is, up to now, the biggest hospital construction in the whole nation, the new building will be complete in 2006, the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the hospital. The integrated new hospital will make far-reaching influence on the development of Xiangya hospital, and will lay a solid foundation for the construction of modern integrated major hospitals. Xiangya hospital is with a splendid future.