Nutrition

The Department of Clinical Nutrition of Zhejiang Hospital was established in September 2010 and currently consists of the Nutrition Department of the Lingyin Campus, the Nutrition Department of the Sandun Campus and the Nutrition Department of the Administrative Center. The department is equipped with a nutrition outpatient clinic, a nutrition education room, an enteral nutrition preparation room and other facilities. It is mainly responsible for patients' dietary management, nutritional screening and assessment, nutritional diagnosis and treatment of diseases, nutritional monitoring and quality control, etc. At the same time, it undertakes many tasks including the nutrition outpatient clinic, consultations, the multidisciplinary team clinic for geriatric diseases, the multidisciplinary weight management clinic, scientific research and teaching.

Since 2016, the department has been responsible for the development of the hospital's key discipline "Geriatric Clinical Nutrition". In 2017, it was honored with the title of "Advanced Collective for Nutrition Science Popularization Work in Zhejiang Province"; in 2018, it became a council member unit of the Zhejiang Provincial Clinical Nutrition Specialty Alliance and was awarded as one of the National Top Ten Outstanding Bases among the National Geriatric Clinical Nutrition Implementation Demonstration Bases; in 2019, it received the provincial title of "Top Ten Nutrition Departments". From 2023 onwards, it has been designated a National Standardized Weight Management Outpatient Demonstration Unit for 4 consecutive years.