Peking Union Medical College Hospital is a modern, comprehensive tertiary Grade A hospital that integrates medical treatment, teaching, and scientific research. It is the national referral center for the diagnosis and treatment of difficult and complex diseases designated by the National Health Commission. It is one of the earliest hospitals to undertake medical tasks for foreign guests, and it is also a national demonstration base for higher medical education and standardized resident training, as well as a national core base for clinical medical research and technological innovation. It is renowned both domestically and internationally for its comprehensive disciplines, strong technical force, prominent specialty departments, and powerful multidisciplinary comprehensive advantages.

The hospital, founded by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1921, aspired from its inception to become "the best medical center in Asia". Over the past century, it has cultivated the Concordian spirit of "rigor, excellence, diligence, and dedication" and the Concordian character of "establishing the hospital for the country, establishing medicine for the people, and establishing learning for truth". It has established the modern medical education concept of "three basics" and "three stricts", formed the Concordian "three treasures" known for "professors, medical records, and libraries", and nurtured a generation of medical masters such as Zhang Xiaoqian and Lin Qiaozhi, as well as numerous leaders in modern Chinese medicine. It has also created more than 10 well-known large-scale general and specialized hospitals today. The hospital innovatively proposes the hospital management philosophy of "treating patients like family members to improve patient satisfaction; treating colleagues like family members to enhance employee happiness"; it has refined the century-old Concordian connotation of "academic excellence, quality assurance, and humanistic care"; and it has comprehensively promoted the construction of "six major systems" including the medical service system, talent cultivation system, technological innovation system, fine management system, open collaboration system, and party building and culture system.

Currently, the hospital boasts a total construction area of over 620,000 square meters, with over 4,300 permanent staff, 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, 64 clinical medical technology and platform departments, 29 national key clinical specialties, 6 national-level scientific research platforms including the National Key Laboratory for Difficult and Rare Diseases, the National Major Scientific and Technological Infrastructure for Translational Medicine, the National Clinical Medical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the National Clinical Medical Research Center for Dermatology and Immunology, 5 national "Double First-Class" construction disciplines, 12 national key disciplines, 9 doctoral degree authorization points in first-level disciplines, 6 national continuing medical education bases, 22 national standardized training professional bases for resident physicians, and 8 national pilot bases for standardized training of specialist physicians. The hospital has over 2,000 open inpatient beds, with over 70,000 surgical procedures performed in 2024 and over 120,000 discharged patients annually. It has successively won titles such as "National Civilized Unit", "National Advanced Collective in the Health System", "National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization", and "National Advanced Collective in Fighting COVID-19". At the same time, the hospital also undertakes the important task of supporting underdeveloped areas, providing medical security for national important events, and serving as the main medical team for emergencies.

People of Peking Union Medical College Hospital have written a brilliant history with their persistent medical aspirations, noble medical ethics, exquisite medical skills, and rigorous academic style. In the new century and new journey, people of Peking Union Medical College Hospital will always adhere to the hospital's direction of "people-centered, all for patients", build a national medical center, create a "world-class hospital with Chinese characteristics", and strive to protect people's life and health in an all-round and whole life cycle manner, and build it into a "national heavy equipment" leading the development of Chinese medicine.