Nanjing Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital (Nanjing Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital affiliated with Nanjing Medical University, a national baby-friendly hospital, and the first Grade 3A Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital in Jiangsu Province) was founded in 1936 as a maternity hospital affiliated with the National Central Higher Midwifery Vocational School. After 71 years of wind and rain, under the vigorous efforts of several generations, the scale of the hospital has been expanding, the rapid development of business, has become a set of women's and children's health care, medical care, teaching, scientific research as one of the municipal maternal and child health care hospitals, enjoying a high reputation in the community.
The hospital is located in the center of the city, covers an area of more than 20,000 square meters, construction area of 26,700 square meters, another construction area of 70,000 square meters of maternal and child health center building is under construction, open beds 380. The existing staff of 806 people, including 616 health professionals, 85 senior titles. There are 12 first-level departments, 44 second-level departments, 11 medical and technical departments and their business departments, of which the prenatal diagnostic laboratory, obstetrics for the provincial key specialties, gynecology, children's health care for the municipal key specialties, Chinese medicine for the key construction of traditional Chinese medicine units in Nanjing. The Women's Health Center, Children's Health Center and Neonatal Disease Screening Center are all located in the hospital, and in 2004, the Eugenics Quality Control Center of Jiangsu Province, the Prenatal Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging Center of Jiangsu Province, the Neonatal Asphyxia Resuscitation Training Center of Nanjing, the China-Australia Reproductive Research Center, the Canada-China Children's Health Foundation-Nanjing Maternal and Child (Infant and Toddler) Oral Health Care Diagnostic Center, the International Hysteroscopy Training Center of Fuxing Hospital of Beijing, affiliated with Capital Medical University, and the International Hysteroscopy Training Center of East China are all established. International Hysteroscopy Training Center East China. The hospital owns 374 sets of medical instruments and equipments over RMB 10,000, such as real-time three-dimensional color ultrasound, radiological imaging system, automatic biochemistry instrument, TV laparoscope, time fluorescence immunoassay equipment, and microscopic operating system for reproductive aid, etc. In 2006, the hospital had 623,980 outpatient and emergency visits, 13,244 admissions, and 7,652 deliveries of new babies.
The hospital has innovative management concepts, strong technical force, distinctive specialty features, complete structural functions, superior quality of service, and its comprehensive strength is at the leading level of the same industry in China and the province, especially in the areas of pregnancy and childbirth, fetal medicine, preterm infant rescue, prenatal diagnosis, reproductive infertility, gynecological oncology, cervical disease diagnosis and treatment, mammary disease diagnosis and treatment, cavitation technology, gynecological and infant health care, newborn screening, traditional Chinese medicine, ultrasound imaging, etc. The hospital also has a wide range of medical instruments and equipment. Obstetrics and gynecology, ultrasound imaging and other aspects are more specialties. The hospital adheres to the combination of health care and clinic, and constantly broadens the field of health care services, focusing on the development of perinatal health care, pregnancy counseling, maternal and child mental health care, women's nutritional counseling and guidance, women's disease census and universal treatment and tracking and management of the flow of the return, children's health care, early childhood development, high-risk children's intervention (rehabilitation), the service covers 18 specialties of maternal and child health care, and opens a series of health care specialty outpatient clinics, and establishes a comprehensive service system of health care in the various phases of maternal and child health care. It has set up a series of health care specialty clinics, established a comprehensive health care service system for all stages of maternal and child health care, and formed health care connotation characteristics. As the top unit of the city's maternal and child health care network, it also undertakes the operational guidance, management, supervision and training of maternal and child health care personnel in the city's eleven districts and two counties, as well as the implementation of various maternal and child health care indicators of life, health and quality.
The hospital advocates a people-oriented service concept, and embodies humanistic care in every detail. It carries out the "five hearts" and "five services" activities of enthusiasm, patience, care, attentiveness, love and quality service, smiling service, affectionate service, moving service and accompanying service; establishes the Good Mothers' Club, the new model of health care service during labor and delivery, analgesia in labor and delivery, the new model of LDR, water delivery, and the new model of fetus birth, which is the best way for the hospital to provide the best health care service for women and children. The hospital has established the Good Mother's Club, a new model of health care services during labor and delivery, analgesia during labor and delivery, LDR, a new model of childbirth, water delivery, fetal photo albums, videos of welcoming a new life, ribbon-cutting for a new life, post-partum rehabilitation, neonatal swim therapy, bird's-nest nursing care, postoperative exercises for breast cancer, music therapy, one-stop services, outpatient process optimization, the Good Baby's Club, holistic nursing care, and star-level services.
The hospital has been awarded "Civilized Unit", "Advanced Collective of Women's Work", "Advanced Collective of Maternal and Child Health Work" by the province, the city and the Bureau for several consecutive years, and "Advanced Collective of Democratic Management of Nanjing City". "Nanjing advanced group in democratic management", "Nanjing advanced group in comprehensive management of social security", "Nanjing garden unit" and so on. In 2005, the four obstetrics wards were awarded the honor of "National Women's Civilization Post" and "National Youth Civilization No." at the same time.