The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University was established in 2023 by the merging of the former Ningbo First Hospital (founded in 1913) and the former Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University School of Medicine (Ningbo Third Hospital, founded in 1951), it is currently the largest tertiary-level hospital in eastern Zhejiang. The hospital currently has three campuses: Yuehu, Fangqiao andWaitan, with a total construction area of 400,300 square meters and 3,900 approved in-patient beds. The hospital has ranked among the top 100 tertiary public hospitals in the country for four consecutive years in performance evaluation.

The hospital is grantedasthe Zhejiang Provincial Regional Medical Center. It is also recognized as Ningbo International HealthcareCenter, Ningbo Cadre HealthcareCenter, Ningbo Geriatric Medicine Center, Ningbo Public Health Clinical Center, Ningbo Centerfor Poisoning Treatment,and Ningbo Center for Critical Pregnant Women Treatment. The hospitalalso has 6affiliated municipal chronic disease management clinical guidance centers and 11 municipal quality control centers. It is the Ningbo Hospice Care Guidance Center. The hospital currently manages 4 county-level hospitals and provides counterpart assistance to 3 county-level hospitals.

The hospital is granted asnational standardized training base for residents, national drug clinical trial base, national coronary heart disease intervention and arrhythmia intervention training base, China Chest Pain Center, national standardized cardiac rehabilitation center, one of the first batch of national heart failure center demonstration centers, and national advanced stroke center, China Atrial Fibrillation Center, National Stroke Screening and Prevention Base, China Cardioembolic Stroke Prevention and Treatment Ningbo Base, National Standardized Metabolic Disease Management Center Ningbo Branch, National Health Management Demonstration Base, National Geriatric Medicine Talent Training Project Base, Zhejiang Provincial Health Practical Noveland Appropriate Technology Cultivation and Promotion Center, core unit of Zhejiang Provincial Clinical Medical Research Center for Cardio-Cerebrovascular Diseases, core unitofZhejiang Provincial Diagnosis and Treatment Technology Research Center for Difficult Pulmonary Diseases, and the Clinical LaboratoryCenter has passed the ISO15189 review. In 2022, the hospital won the Ningbo Municipal Government Quality Award (the first in the city's industry).

The hospital strengthens party building in public hospitals, and the "Medical Road Follows the Party" party building brand continues to innovate in theory, practice, platform and other dimensions, becoming a model leader in the industry and a powerful driving force for the high-quality development of the hospital. Under the leadership of the party building, the hospital has the vision of "a research oriented hospital that is first-class in the country, theleader in the province, and the first choice of the people", and aims to promote the construction of provincial and regional medical centers, comprehensively deepening the comprehensive and digital reform of public hospitals, and fully investing in " "Medical Peak" construction, continue to carry out the themed activities of "Improving medical experience and enhancing patient experience", committed to the following aspects:

Promote the "Medical Peak" of eastern Zhejiang with high-level disciplines. Focus on building a clinical specialty group for major diseases such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, digestive diseases, urinary diseases, blood diseases, orthopedics, tumors, critical care, trauma, dermatology diagnosis and treatment, and plastic surgery,to ensure the fastest and most accurate diagnosis and treatment of major diseases. At present, the hospitalhas established the most comprehensive and highest-level discipline group in the city, with: 2 national key clinical construction specialties (neurosurgery, cardiovascular medicine), 1 Zhejiang Province key discipline (hematology), and 4 province&municipaljointly established disciplines (cardiovascular medicine, urology, pulmonology, gastroenterology), 5 regional medical centers in eastern Zhejiang (cardiovascular medicine, gastroenterology, critical care medicine, hematology, urology, and anesthesiology), 3 Ningbo city brand disciplines (brain disease diagnosis and treatment center, heart disease diagnosis and treatment center, clinical nursing), 1 Ningbo city key clinical construction specialty (general surgery), 9 Ningbo city key medical disciplines (psychosomatic medicine, gastroenterology science, orthopedic surgery, critical care medicine, ultrasound medicine, microsurgery, endocrinology, medical imaging, nursing), 11 key cultivating clinical disciplines in Ningbo (anesthesiology, rheumatology and autoimmunity, obstetrics , geriatric medicine, gastrointestinal surgery, otolaryngology, medical laboratory medicine, general medicine, respiratory medicine, dermatology, endocrinology). In 2022, 7 disciplines including neurology were enlisted inthe top 100 in the China Hospital Science and Technology Volume (STEM) rankings.

Ensure public safety with high-quality technology. The hospital strengthens its technology leadership and is equipped with Da Vinci surgical robot, PET-CT, linear accelerator, 3.0T magnetic resonance, 320-slice CT, 96-slice dual-source CT, SPECT, argon-helium knife, endocytoscope, holmium laser, and thulium laser, fluorescence surgical microscope and other high-end large-scale medical equipment. At the same time, it has a large number of advanced medical equipment such as ECMO, CRRT, dual-screen version of DSA, aortic balloon counterpulsation pump, and artificial heart-lung machine to fully support technological innovation and development. The hospital focuses on a clinical technology innovation system focusing on difficult and complex diseases, rare diseases, and regional frequently-occurring diseases. It adopts sequential double-bypass technology to treat ischemic cerebrovascular disease, neuroendoscopic deep brain tumor treatment technology, and transright atrium interventional valve surgery. Many technologies such as valve implantation (TTViV), aortic valve repair and reconstruction (AVNeo), and suture-free aortic valve bioprosthetic valve replacement (Perceval) are the first in the province, and the world's fourth-generation surgical robot has been introduced. It has achieved "minimum trauma and maximum functional preservation" for more than 1,400 patients under major diseases. The first "application of real-time microscopic hemodynamic thermal imaging technology to determine anastomotic patency during cerebrovascular disease bypass surgery" may replace the current technology. In 2022 Zhejiang Province tertiary hospital DRG performance evaluation, the CMI (Case Mix Index) ranked second in the province. In the first half of 2023, in the ranking of diseases (types of surgery) in Zhejiang Province, the hospital ranked among the top 3 in 10 diseases and the top 5 in 27 types of diseases in Zhejiang Province, 59 types of diseases rank among the top 10 in the province, the hospital ranks first in the city in the proportion of ambulatory surgery, and the first in the province in the proportion of third- and fourth-level ambulatory surgeries.

Promote innovative development with high-level scientific research. The hospital has an integrated scientific research platform of over 10,000 square meters, with a central laboratory, a biobank (certified by the Ministry of Science and Technology for preservation), an operating platform for valuable instruments and equipment, an electron microscope workstation, etc., and conducts research in accordance with the "Basic-Translational-Clinical" approach, and accelerate the construction of innovation-driven and research-orientedhospitals. Currently, 1 provincial key laboratory, 1 provincial engineering research center, 2 municipal key laboratories, and 3 municipal clinical research centershave been built, and there areestablished collaborationswith 18 high-level institutions. Focusing on common diseases, frequently-occurring diseases and major diseases in local and surrounding areas as the main research objects, we vigorously promote innovative research cooperation and resource sharing between hospitals and scientific research institutes, universities, enterprises, etc., and accumulate research power to form a research system with regional characteristics. In recent years, In the past three years, the hospital has been approved for 16 National Natural Science Foundation projects, 748 authorized patents. It has realized the applicationof 19 scientific and technological achievements, with a contract value of 20.06 million yuan, ranking 21st in the country and 3rd in the province.

Cultivate the future leaders of medicine with high-quality teaching. The hospital is a teaching hospital of Ningbo University, Zhejiang University, Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and China Pharmaceutical University. It is a training unit for medical master's degree students of Ningbo University, Zhejiang University, and Wenzhou Medical University, and a doctoral training unit of Ningbo University. There are 22 PhD tutors, 171 master's student supervisors. The hospital became one of the first batch of national-level residential training bases in 2014 and currently has 16 professional bases. The number of residential training students and base capacity utilization rate rank first in Ningbo City. The clinical training center of the hospital is the Ningbo Medical Academic Exchange Management Center and a national clinical practice skills examination base. It covers an area of about 5,230 square meters and has 40 examination rooms. It is the largest training center in Ningbo.

Serving Ningbo with a high-quality team. The hospital has always regarded talent introduction and education as the core driving force for hospital development, and has built a multi-dimensional team of high-quality medical talents that matches the provincial and regional medical centers. In particular, it has continued to innovate in talent introduction, differentiated talent training, and talent service management. The hospital currently has a total of 5,213 employees, including 965 with associate senior professional titles or above, 152 with doctorates and postdoctoral degrees, and 1,283 with master's degrees. It has nearly 100 talents including special allowances from the State Council, top-notch young talents from Zhejiang Province’s “Ten Thousand Talents Plan”, and outstanding talents from Ningbo City, ranking first in the city in total. The hospital has a Zhejiang Provincial Postdoctoral Research Workstation and an Academician Workstation, and has recruited a total of 15 postdoctoral fellows to carry out medical research. A high-quality team promotes high-quality services. In recent years, the hospital has innovatively launched one-stop diagnosis and treatment centers, multi-disciplinary teams, disease post-diagnosis management, comprehensive health team management, "Orange Heart Helping the Elderly" brand, medical social workers, etc. The hospital has achieved a number of innovative achievements in the field of hospital management, including the city's first independently developed "smart party building" system, the province's first public hospital party building research room, the city's first operations management department in the health system, the city's first SPD management model, we have cooperated with the Municipal Emergency Center to build a smart first aid system and team training, the city’s first online and offline Internet hospital, etc. Among them, the volume of Internet medical services has ranked first in the city, and the volume of Internet + nursing services has ranked first in the province.

In recent years, the hospital has won many national, provincial and municipal honors, among which the main honors are the National "Respect the Elderly Civilization Award", and the National Health Commission's "Medical Safety Demonstration Hospital" ”, Zhejiang Province Excellent Teaching Hospital, Zhejiang Province Safe Hospital, Zhejiang Province Green Hospital, Zhejiang Provincial Health Promotion Hospital, Ningbo Municipal People’s Government Quality Award, Ningbo’s first pioneer team to fight the epidemic, Ningbo Red Cross Advanced Collective, Ningbo International Exchange Demonstration Base, etc.