Lishui Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine was established in 1978 on the banks of Nanming Lake in Lishui, Zhejiang province. It is a third-grade class A comprehensive TCM hospital with complete clinical departments.

The hospital now has 805 staff members, 340 of whom have senior and intermediate titles and 78 have doctorates and master's degrees.

The hospital's department of pulmonary diseases is a national key construction TCM specialty, the department of respiratory medicine is a provincial key discipline of integrated TCM and Western medicine, and the departments of orthopedics, gynecology, and acupuncture and massage are provincial key TCM specialties.

The hospital also has a herbal medicine preparation center, which can produce oral liquid, infusion, paste, pills and other dosage forms that have passed the GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) standard acceptance.

In recent years, the hospital has undertaken more than 40 scientific research projects at national, provincial and municipal levels, won a number of awards, and obtained a national invention patent.

It is also the teaching practice hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Wenzhou Medical University and Lishui University.