SAHZU was founded in 1869 by the British Church Missionary Society and was once considered the best hospital in the Far East. As the cradle of western medicine in Zhejiang province, SAHZU educated a large number of medical talents. Multiple several health care institutions can trace their roots to SAHZU. Those doctors and institutions have become the bedrock of clinical medicine in Zhejiang. The hospital itself has been a beacon of the medical science: in 1989, it was recognized by the Ministry of Health as one of the first 3A hospitals in China; in 2013, it became one of the first Joint Commission International–accredited academic medical centers. In 2019, the hospital is recognized by the National Health Commission of China as the national centers of excellence of cardiovascular diseases and trauma, orthopedics and neuroscience.

The hospital has three campuses with a total of 3,200 beds and over 5,000 employees, including 1,696 physicians and 2365 nurses in 50 clinical departments, many of which are national clinical departments or disciplines approved by the National Health Commission. SAHZU has become the role model for Chinese hospitals in the field of transcatheter valve intervention, the minimally invasive cataract surgery, colorectal cancer, and severe burns. With nearly 6 million outpatients, 190,000 inpatients, and 150,000 surgeries every year, SAHZU is one of the most efficient general public hospitals in China.

SAHZU is accredited as an A++ hospital by the National Health Commission of China in the 2019 Chinese National Tertiary Hospital Performance Evaluation and ranks 7th out of 2413 Chinese public tertiary hospitals. Besides siting in the top rank in the country, SAHZU also leads in the province as it's the only Zhejiang hospital that ranks top 10 in China in two consecutive years.

SAHZU has ranked as one of the top 20 Chinese hospitals for 3 consecutive years. According to the Fudan University Hospital Management Institute's Best Chinese Hospital ranking 2019, five SAHZU specialties rank top 5 in China (health management #2, emergency medicine #3, cardiology #4, ophthalmology #5, neurosurgery #5), and three specialties rank top 10 (burn #8, ultrasound #9, respiratory medicine #10). Another 10 specialties including Dermatology, Radiology, Allergy, Anesthesiology, General Surgery, Orthopedics, Nuclear Medicine, Neurology, Oncology and Rheumatology are nominated.

Wan Fang Hospital has been operating since 1997 as Taiwan’s first publicly owned, privately operated hospital, operated by Taipei Medical University. The hospital is a medical center with medical education, research, service, community medicine to promote the health of city residents.

The hospital owns a professional staff and cutting-edge equipment/technology, and has received several international quality certifications, including being certified by JCI successively for 5 times. Wan Fang Hospital has 43 medical departments with specialists from every medical specialty. It is especially well-known for its Tuberculosis Center, Cancer Center, Stroke prevention and treatment Center, Cyber-Knife Center, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Center, Pain management Center via Chinese and Western medicine, Burn and Chronic Wound Whole Person Care Center, Laser Cosmetic Center, and specialty medical care such as the HIPEC (Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy), elephantiasis of lower limb (Lymphedema), and acute myocardial infarction etc.

We will continue to carry on with pride our mission to provide patient-centered, high quality and safer patient care in order to improve the health of the community, to promote the health of city residents.