Department Name: Nutrition Center
Leader:
Geographical location: Area I, 3rd Floor of Outpatient Building
Obstetric clinic:
The Nutrition Center started trial operation in September 2015. In December 2015, upon official approval by the Hangzhou Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission, the Nutrition Center of Hangzhou Women’s Hospital was established. Hangzhou Women's Nutrition Center is one of the key disciplines of Hangzhou Women’s Hospital (Hangzhou Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital), and also a “Demonstration Site for Nutrition Education during Pregnancy and Childbirth” and the “Air Class for Maternity and Child Health Education” of All-China Women's Federation. The center, offering items in connection with the Women’s Nutrition Clinic, One-day Clinic for Gestational Diabetes, Nutritional Weight Loss Clinic, Recipe Development, Bone Density Instrument and Body Composition, etc., is home to currently 5 medical staff members, including 1 chief physician, 1 attending physician, 2 physicians and 1 nurse, all of whom hold National Certificate of Perinatal Nutritionist or Public Health Dietitian, with higher level of medical nutritional treatment.
The center has successfully completed the continuing education projects of the Health and Family Planning Commission of Zhejiang Province and Hangzhou Municipality for many times, presided over 3 nutrition-related subjects of the same and published over 10 articles in connection with nutrition in recent 5 years.
Outpatient nutritional intervention service is delivered every month by the Nutrition Center to more than 1,500 people, among whom nearly 100 accept the whole-course intervention management from One-day Clinic for Gestational Diabetes. The intervention efficacy reaches 90%, having achieved good social benefits.
Health popularization: It takes on the health education curriculum of Nutrition and Weight Management for Pregnant Women of the hospital’s School for Pregnant Women, provides women’s nutrition and health education in communities on a regular basis, and publishes in many magazines multiple articles regarding nutrition popularization including among others the Healthy Diet for Pregnant Women during the Spring Festival, Adding Some Green to Diet during Puerperal Period, Eat Right in Influenza Season and For Staged Nutrition Supplementation during Pregnancy, Dietetic Invigoration Is the First. Besides, it participates in science talk shows like Nutrition before Exam for Middle School Students.
Instruments: Body Composition Meter, Bone Density Instrument, Basic Metabolic Measurement System, Blood Glucose Monitoring System, Nutrition Clinic Consultation & Management System and other instrument and software.
Special clinic service: Monday to Friday (Nutrition Center of Area I, 3rd Floor of Outpatient Building)
Expert clinic service: Every Monday, Wednesday morning
Specialist clinic service: Every Tuesday morning
Special clinic service: Every Saturday morning
One-day Clinic for Gestational Diabetes: Every Wednesday
1. Perinatal nutrition assessment and nutritional intervention
2. Medical nutritional therapy for gestational diabetes
3. Whole-course nutrition management for abnormal weight in pregnancy
4. Breast milk nutrition assessment and intervention
5. Nutritional therapy for polycystic ovarian syndrome
6. Nutritional intervention for weight loss in female patients with simple obesity
7. Nutritional intervention for gestational hyperlipemia and thyroid dysfunction
The department is dedicated to providing collaborative therapy of cross-department and multidisciplinary nutritional support for gynecological disease, childhood obesity and pregnancy complication and other diseases, and has some superiority in the aspect of nutritional intervention mode of One-day Clinic for Gestational Diabetes, nutritional therapy for gestational thyroid dysfunction, weight loss in obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome, etc.