Obstetrics

Obstetrics has always been a discipline of strength at the hospital, a municipal-level key medical discipline and a provincial-level key discipline; it is the affiliated institution for obstetric quality control in Hangzhou, the rescue and consultation center for critically ill pregnant and postpartum women in the Hangzhou area, and a training base for personnel providing midwifery technical services in the Hangzhou area; in 1993, the hospital was among the first to be designated a Baby-Friendly Hospital by the World Health Organization. For more than 30 years, it has consistently ranked among the top in every inspection of obstetric quality in the Hangzhou area, and has repeatedly been named an advanced collective at the hospital and bureau levels, a municipal “March 8” Red Flag Advanced Collective, and a provincial and municipal Youth Civilization Demonstration Post. The department currently has 90 medical and nursing staff, including 4 chief physicians, 8 associate chief physicians, 1 chief nurse, and 5 associate chief nurses. It has 71 available beds and includes an emergency department, general outpatient clinic, high-risk outpatient clinic, specialist outpatient clinic, specialty outpatient clinic, joint outpatient clinic, renowned-physician outpatient clinic, general ward, VIP ward, general delivery room, warm delivery room, prenatal diagnosis center, and pelvic floor treatment room, with approximately 80,000 outpatient visits and approximately 5,000 deliveries annually.

Relying on the high-risk management network of the two centers and the comprehensive medical capabilities of a tertiary Grade A hospital, the Obstetrics Department of our hospital has created a high-risk pregnancy management model led by obstetrics and supported by multidisciplinary consultations, and has established a discipline development direction in which obstetric critical illness is the strength and distinguishing feature. Over the past nearly 10 years, it has successfully treated more than 10,000 high-risk pregnant and postpartum women; the disease spectrum has covered all types of obstetric and medical and surgical critical illnesses, including more than 1,000 emergency and critically ill patients transferred to ICU, and the scope of treatment extends throughout Zhejiang Province and the surrounding provinces and cities. Meanwhile, Obstetrics has opened a comprehensive range of specialty subspecialty outpatient clinics, including: a healthy reproduction and child-rearing clinic, genetic counseling clinic, pregnancy nutrition clinic, perinatal care clinic, cervical insufficiency clinic, external cephalic version clinic for breech presentation, joint clinic for high-risk pregnant and postpartum women, joint clinic for pregnancy complicated by liver disease, joint fetal medicine clinic, family group-based midwife clinic, pelvic floor rehabilitation clinic, breastfeeding counseling clinic, etc., providing full-continuum maternity services before, during, and after childbirth, meeting the needs of different groups, including general, special-needs, and high-risk patients, and forming an integrated service model combining genetic counseling, perinatal care, and disease treatment.