The hospital
Hangzhou First People's Hospital opened in 1923 as the Provincial Hangzhou Infectious Disease Hospital and was among the first in Zhejiang Province to pass Triple-A accreditation in 1989. Its history page describes it as the largest comprehensive class A tertiary hospital in Hangzhou, combining medical services with teaching, research and social health care. It has more than 5,000 open beds and a nine-campus medical group spanning Hubin, Chengbei, Wushan and Fuyang, among other districts, and it is affiliated with Westlake University School of Medicine.
Dental care
The Stomatology Department is a substantial unit of 30 staff, including 5 chief doctors, 5 deputy chief doctors, 10 attending doctors, 1 doctor and 13 masters. It is a national standardised training base and runs an inpatient ward of 12 approved beds with nearly 600 operations a year. Its oral implant service is one of the earliest in Zhejiang and reports an implant survival rate above 99 per cent. Subspecialties cover oral and maxillofacial surgery, including free-flap reconstruction, oral implantology, prosthodontics and orthodontics, endodontics, and periodontal and oral mucosal disease, with inpatient dental care delivered on the Hubin campus.
Visiting as a foreign patient
The English site has a dedicated channel for overseas patients and an online appointment form for the International Medicine Department. The form is for non-urgent visits and asks for your passport number, nationality, an address and mobile number in China, and the department name or preferred physician; the hospital then contacts you to confirm. Book at least three days ahead, confirm insurance coverage first, and bring your passport, medical insurance card and medical records. The appointment and service hotline is 0086-0571-56007402, open Monday to Friday 8:00-12:00 and 13:30-17:00, and another listed line is 0086-0571-87914773. For emergencies call 120.