Founded in 1958, Yantai Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine has developed into a Grade III Class A TCM hospital integrating medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, prevention, and rehabilitation. It is a comprehensive hospital combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine. The hospital is currently an affiliated hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a national key construction unit for TCM characteristic hospitals, a national standardized training base for general practitioners of TCM, a national standardized training base for TCM physicians, a Shandong Provincial postdoctoral innovation practice base, and a Shandong Provincial joint training base for postgraduate students.

The hospital is located in the core area of ​​the Xingfu district in Zhifu District. Its east and west sections are separated by Xingfu Road and connected by an overpass. The hospital covers a total area of ​​56,000 square meters, with a building area of ​​over 110,000 square meters and more than 1,100 beds. Using this as a hub, the hospital has strategically established four outpatient clinics in Zhifu District, Development Zone, and Laishan District, and spearheaded the formation of a regional medical consortium, collaborating deeply with 17 medical institutions. Its service radius covers the entire city of Yantai and continues to extend to surrounding cities and prefectures.

The hospital has 20 administrative and logistical departments and 75 clinical and medical technology departments, with over 1,100 employees, including 244 senior technical personnel and 346 staff members with master's degrees or above. The hospital boasts nearly 100 high-level TCM talents, including 3 national-level TCM mentors, 2 national-level backbone talents for the inheritance of TCM clinical characteristic techniques, 3 national-level backbone talents for the inheritance of TCM characteristic techniques, 1 national-level outstanding TCM clinical talent, 3 national-level backbone talents for TCM nursing, 2 national-level leading talents in TCM accounting, 8 provincial-level outstanding TCM clinical talents, 3 Qilu health and wellness leading talents, 1 provincial-level renowned veteran TCM expert, 19 provincial-level renowned TCM experts, 2 provincial-level high-level TCM discipline leaders, 19 provincial-level fifth-level mentors, 1 Qilu Biancang leading talent, 1 Qilu Biancang backbone talent, 2 Qilu Biancang outstanding young talents, 3 Qilu Biancang talents, 1 Qilu talent project health and wellness talent, 26 municipal-level renowned veteran TCM doctors and renowned TCM doctors, and 1 Yantai City Double Hundred Plan scholar-special support expert.

The hospital has implemented national, provincial, and municipal key specialty development plans, achieving fruitful results in key specialty construction. It has successively established two national key specialties and national advantageous TCM specialties (Oncology and Gastroenterology), two provincial key TCM disciplines (TCM Oncology and TCM Gastroenterology), eight provincial key TCM clinical specialties (Neck, Shoulder, Lower Back and Leg Pain, Pediatrics, Nephrology, Pulmonary Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine, Geriatrics, Cardiology, and Nursing), eleven municipal key TCM clinical specialties (Endocrinology, Rheumatology, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Clinical Pharmacy, Critical Care Medicine, Gynecology, Proctology, Emergency Medicine, Acupuncture, and Tuina), and one key medical and health discipline (Radiology). The coverage rate of key specialties (disciplines) ranks first among TCM hospitals in the city. Among them, the Department of Oncology, as the hospital's leading specialty, is also the leading specialty of the "Qilu Traditional Chinese Medicine Advantage Specialty Cluster," the leading unit of the Shandong Provincial Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine's Oncology Rehabilitation Professional Committee, the leading unit of the Shandong Provincial Traditional Chinese Medicine Oncology Prevention and Treatment Specialty Alliance, the Shandong Provincial Traditional Chinese Medicine Specialty Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Center, and the Yantai Municipal Traditional Chinese Medicine Oncology Clinical Medical Research Center. The hospital has successfully established itself as a practice base for oncology rehabilitation of the Chinese Gerontology and Geriatrics Society.

Under the guidance of key specialties, the capabilities and levels of various specialties in the hospital have steadily improved. The Department of Cardiology is a national hypertension target center, heart failure center, cardiac rehabilitation center, and national key research and development program clinical research center. The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine is a council member of the National Pelvic Floor Holistic Rehabilitation Alliance, a member of the National Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Rehabilitation Alliance, and a member of the Shandong Provincial Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Rehabilitation Medical Alliance. The Department of Neurology is a branch center of the National Traditional Chinese Medicine Advantage Neurology Specialty Alliance. The Departments of Pulmonary Medicine, Cardiology, Rehabilitation Medicine, Endocrinology, Pediatrics, Proctology, Nephrology, Preventive Medicine, Tuina (Chinese massage), and Gynecology are member specialties of the "Qilu Traditional Chinese Medicine Advantage Specialty Cluster."

The hospital has successively established studios for national masters of traditional Chinese medicine Liu Jiaxiang, Zhang Daning, Li Diangui, and Wang Xinlu; studios for nationally renowned traditional Chinese medicine practitioners Zhang Hongchun and Gao Shuzhong; studios for Qihuang scholars Jia Liqun and Zhang Yunling; studios for nationally renowned veteran traditional Chinese medicine experts Wang Guocai and Sun Min; studios for nationally renowned expert Li Ling'e; studios for the first generation of acupuncture and knife medicine inheritors Song Qinfu; studios for Shandong provincial renowned veteran traditional Chinese medicine practitioners Wang Haoguang and Hou Aihua; studios for the Qilu Shibing School, Huang Huang Jingfang School, and Qilu Hejian Xuantong School of Medicine; and studios for Yantai municipal renowned traditional Chinese medicine experts Yan Xuejie, Du Tiemin, Yu Haiyuan, and Sun Lifeng.

The hospital is a "Joint Postgraduate Training Base" of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a "Western Medicine to Traditional Medicine Training Base" of Shandong Province, and a "Village Doctor Training Base" of Yantai City. It undertakes full-time master's degree teaching for Shandong University of Traditional Chinese, clinical teaching for multiple undergraduate and vocational colleges, as well as national standardized training for TCM general practitioners, national standardized training for TCM physicians, Shandong provincial job transfer training for TCM practitioners, job transfer training for backbone teachers of TCM general practitioners, and village doctor training in Yantai City. It is the chair unit of the Shandong Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Shandong Geriatrics Association, and the affiliated unit of the Yantai Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It has 28 branches, including gynecology, oncology, and pulmonary diseases. It the affiliated unit of 17 municipal quality control centers, such as the Yantai TCM Nursing Quality Control Center and the Yantai TCM Pharmaceutical Affairs Quality Control Center, and leads dozens high-level academic conferences and municipal TCM-related quality control conferences every year. It is a Traditional Chinese Medicine Processing Technology Inheritance Base of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, with 35 types of preparations covering 8 dosage forms: granules, mixtures, hard capsules, pills (water pills), lotions, syrups, tinctures, and powders. It can provide clinical processing services for TCM prescriptions, including powders, water pills, honey pills, tea preparations, decoction pastes, decoctions, and external ointments, which are highly welcomed by.

The hospital is equipped with advanced domestic and international medical equipment, including United Imaging 3.0T and Philips 1.5T MRI, United Imaging linear accelerator, SPECT, focused ultrasound tumor ablation machine, Philips 256-slice CT, and Neusoft ultra-high-end CT, with 55 units costing over one yuan. The hospital has prominent advantages in integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment. It can carry out integrated diagnosis and treatment projects such as minimally invasive tumor treatment, full- integrated management of malignant tumors, and TCM characteristic therapies combined with digestive endoscopy to treat spleen and stomach system diseases, as well as multi-disciplinary modern medical diagnosis and treatment in neurosurgery thoracic surgery, hepatobiliary, gastrointestinal, urology, proctology, orthopedics, obstetrics and gynecology, and thyroid and breast. Among them, multiple, such as laparoscopic spleen-preserving distal pancreatectomy, have reached an advanced domestic level.

In recent years, the hospital has taken "trusted by the people, excellent reputation" as its belief and pursuit, adhered to the development strategy ofrefining traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), strengthening Western medicine, and integrating TCM and Western medicine", and committed itself to building the hospital into a "modern comprehensive TCM hospital with complete disciplines balanced development, equal emphasis on TCM and Western medicine, prominent characteristics of TCM and Western medicine integration, advanced in the country, and first-class in the province". It has achieved remarkable in discipline development, talent introduction and cultivation, scientific research and teaching, and international cooperation, taking solid steps towards high-quality development. The hospital has been rated Grade A in the performance appraisal of tertiary public TCM hospitals for six consecutive years, and has ranked first among prefecture-level TCM hospitals in the province multiple times. The hospital has successively won honorary titles as "Advanced Collective in Fighting COVID-19 in Shandong Province", "Spiritual Civilization Unit of Shandong Province", "Advanced Collective in Health Work of Shandong Province", "National Respect the Elderly Civilization Unit", and "Advanced Unit in Clinical Specialty Construction of Yantai City".