Recently, the National Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Standardization Construction Project Management Office released the news that Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital was awarded the excellent unit of the National Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Standardization Construction Class III Hospital. It is reported that after Xijing Hospital, Tangdu Hospital, the First Affiliated Hospital of Jiaotong University and the Second Affiliated Hospital of Jiaotong University, this is the fifth unit in the province to win this honor, marking that the comprehensive strength of the respiratory and critical care medical department of the hospital ranks among the national excellent.

The standardization construction of the National Respiratory and Critical Care Medical Department (PCCM) is a specialized standardization construction project jointly sponsored by the Respiratory Doctor Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, the Respiratory Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, the National Federation of Respiratory Specialists, and the National Respiratory Medical Quality Control Center under the leadership of the National Health and Health Commission, initiated by Academician Wang Chen of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, aiming to lead the standardization and homogeneity development of the respiratory discipline, Promote the overall development of modern respiratory science in China.

With the strong support of the hospital leaders, Professor Wu Changgui, the president of the chest hospital and the chief expert of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, led the team to successfully pass the review of the standardized construction project of the National Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) after more than two years of construction. The evaluation experts, Professor Zhang Jianchu and Professor Su Yuan of the Union Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, highly valued the wide range of patients in the hospital, the complexity of the condition and the high difficulty of treatment, and fully affirmed the achievements made in the aspects of respiratory intervention, diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea, management of chronic respiratory diseases, and talent training. The hospital was finally awarded the third-level excellent unit.
The standardized construction of respiratory and critical care medical department is very important for the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases. The current epidemic challenges highlight the urgency and importance of the "construction" of respiratory discipline. The excellent unit awarded by the hospital this time is a new starting point for the discipline construction work. The Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine will make continuous efforts to continuously improve the comprehensive ability of the discipline, effectively respond to the increasingly severe challenges of respiratory diseases, and better meet the health needs of patients with respiratory diseases.