The National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine recently announced the performance appraisal results of the national tertiary public TCM hospitals in 2021. Our directly affiliated and homogeneously managed affiliated hospitals achieved excellent results. The performance appraisal of the national tertiary public TCM hospitals is an important indicator of the effectiveness of the comprehensive reform and development of tertiary public hospitals. The performance appraisal index system classifies and evaluates hospitals with 34 testing indicators in four dimensions: medical quality, operational efficiency, sustainable development and satisfaction evaluation. The assessment results are divided into three classes: A, B and C, with six levels. The highest level is A+, with only the top 5% of hospitals nationwide being able to enter the A+ series and the top 20% of hospitals entering the A grade.

In the performance appraisal of tertiary public TCM hospitals nationwide in 2021, the First Affiliated Hospital (Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine) ranked tenth nationwide and first in the province, receiving an A+ grade; the Affiliated Hangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Hangzhou City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine) ranked eleventh nationwide and second in the province, receiving an A+ grade; the Third Affiliated Hospital (Zhongshan Hospital of Zhejiang Province) ranked thirty-sixth nationwide and third in the province, receiving an A grade. The Second Affiliated Hospital (Xinhua Hospital of Zhejiang Province) was ranked ninth in the country and third in the province in the 2021 performance assessment of the third-tier public combined Chinese and Western medicine hospitals, receiving an A grade.