Guiyang Healthcare Vocational University is the earliest vocational school in the field of healthcare in Guizhou Province. Its predecessor was the "Guizhou Provincial Medical Vocational School" established in October 1939. Since then, it has gone through historical periods such as the Guizhou Provincial Guiyang Advanced Medical Vocational School and the Guizhou Provincial Health School. It was renamed Guiyang Health School in 1961, and independently upgraded and renamed Guiyang Nursing Vocational College in 2006. In August 2021, it was merged and restructured by Guiyang Nursing Vocational College and Qiushi College of Guizhou Normal University into the first full-time public vocational undergraduate university in Guizhou Province and the only vocational undergraduate university in the field of healthcare with the characteristics of healthcare in the country.

Over the past 85 years of running the school, adhering to the type of "vocational education", the school has cumulatively cultivated more than 80,000 technical and skilled talents in the field of healthcare. It is one of the first batch of vocational colleges in the country to participate in the pilot project of digital campus construction, a unit under the construction project of the national informationization benchmark school, one of the first batch of first-aid education pilot schools in the country, a unit under the construction of a national healthy school, and the leading construction unit of the national teaching resource library for the major of traditional Chinese medicine pharmaceutical and the national community of industry-education integration in the smart housekeeping industry; it is the only vocational school in the field of healthcare in Guizhou Province that has simultaneously won the titles of the national advanced unit of vocational education, provincial demonstration school, high-quality school, provincial high-level higher vocational school under the construction project, and demonstration unit of the combination of medical care and elderly care; it is also the demonstration school of the "Three Educations" reform in Guizhou Province, the demonstration school of the coordinated development of secondary vocational, higher vocational and undergraduate education, and the leading unit of the professional construction and talent cultivation project of the health care and elderly service industry chain in Guizhou vocational colleges.

The main campus of the school is located in Guanshanhu District, covering an area of 1,248 mu. There are currently more than 13,000 full-time students. There are 14 teaching institutions, 1 directly affiliated tertiary A+ affiliated hospital. It offers 17 vocational undergraduate majors, implementing four-year undergraduate programs, "3 + 4" integrated secondary and undergraduate programs, "3 + 2" connected higher vocational and undergraduate programs, and jointly building the "Nursing Xiangya Class" with Central South University and other forms of vertical integration and horizontal integration of vocational and general education talent cultivation. It has been approved for 5 key projects of the Ministry of Education to deepen the reform of the modern vocational education system, and 62 key support projects of the Guizhou Provincial Talent Cultivation Quality Improvement Project, the "Prospering Guizhou and Enriching the People" Action Plan, and the "Skills Guizhou". It has built 5 national backbone majors such as Nursing, more than 100 provincial golden courses and excellent open courses for vocational undergraduate education, a national demonstrative productive base for Pharmacy, the "Guizhou Provincial healthcare Industry-Education Integration Training Base", a key project of the "14th Five-Year Plan for a Strong Country Project" of the Ministry of Education, Guizhou Provincial Industry-Education Integration Training Bases for Healthcare/Housekeeping and Intelligent Rehabilitation, 17 high-end industry-university-research platforms such as the Guizhou Provincial Engineering Research Center for Medicinal Resources and Healthcare Products, the Guizhou Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Healthy Elderly Care, and the Industrial College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ethnic Medicines. In the past three years, the implementation rate of graduate employment destinations, the rate of professional relevance, and the satisfaction rate have all reached more than 92%. Students have cumulatively won more than 200 awards in provincial and above competitions such as professional skills, innovation and entrepreneurship, including the first prize in the Skills Competition for Teachers and Students of National Vocational Colleges.

The school has 742 full-time teachers, including 452 with master's or doctoral degrees, 343 with senior professional titles above deputy senior level, and 447 dual-qualified teachers. It has also built 5 national and provincial teams such as the national vocational education teacher innovation team for traditional Chinese medicine pharmaceutical; more than 30 people have won titles such as national and provincial famous vocational education teachers, skill masters, industrial mentors, and the most beautiful laborers, and nearly 100 teachers hold positions such as council members, vice chairpersons, and chairpersons in national and provincial academic societies.

The school has built 6 online and offline social service platforms such as the national high-skilled talent training base and the Healthcare Online Network College, carrying out vocational skill level certifications for 18 occupations such as elderly care workers and health care workers, forming more than 20 social training teams such as AHA, introducing and developing 235 types of training courses, with an average annual training of more than 20,000 high-skilled personnel. The training of provincial elderly care service personnel and other trainings hosted by the school have successively received favorable comments from units and enterprises such as the Guizhou Provincial Civil Affairs Department.

The school focuses on the four key elements of "industry, industrial technology, products, and industry-education integration", bases itself on strengthening the integration of technological research and industrial pain points, deepening the integration of scientific and technological innovation capabilities and skill cultivation, focuses on the industrial chains of healthy medicine, elderly care services, and ecological characteristic foods that are mainly developed in Guizhou and Guiyang-Gui'an, takes the full implementation of the "Four Hundred Projects" of "One Hundred Enterprises Entering the School, One Hundred Teams Providing Services, One Hundred Skills Assisting Production, and One Hundred Products Entering the Market" as the main path, and the "1 + 1 + n + 1" as the main mode (that is, led by 1 doctor or professor, coordinated with 1 research institute, jointly with multiple teachers and students, forming 1 team). It has integrated and formed 48 scientific research teams, with an average annual promotion and implementation of more than 100 vertical and horizontal scientific and technological innovation projects, and has cumulatively developed more than 40 kinds of healthcare characteristic foods. In the first half of 2024 alone, the horizontal funds received exceeded 2 million yuan, 30 patent applications were filed, and 9 technical problems were solved.

In the new era, on the new journey, and in the new track, the school will thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the second and third plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, conscientiously implement the spirit of the various plenary sessions of the 13th Guizhou Provincial Party Committee, the 11th Guiyang Municipal Party Committee, and the Guizhou Provincial Higher Education High-Quality Development Conference. Focusing on the construction of a powerful education country, a powerful science and technology country, a powerful talent country, and a Healthy China, centering on the "Four New" and focusing on the "Four Modernizations", adhering to the overall guidance of "high-quality" development, with the development orientation of "based in Guiyang, serving Guizhou, facing the whole country, and going international", implementing the "Strengthening Healthcare University" strategy, striving to create a new brand of national vocational education, and working hard to build a high-level vocational undergraduate university with "distinctive characteristics, leading in the industry, first-class in the western region, and influential at home and abroad".