The eastern theater general hospital was established in November 2018. Based on the former Nanjing General Hospital of Nanjing Military Region, the former 81 hospital (including 86 clinical departments), the former 82 hospital (including 149 clinical departments), and the former 359 hospital, it was included in 15 outpatient departments of institutions and universities in Nanjing and surrounding areas.

At present, the hospital has 34 key disciplines of the state, army, military region and Jiangsu Province. It has two academicians of the Chinese Academy of engineering, one Changjiang Scholar and four candidates for the project. 49 people have received special government subsidies, and 17 people have won major awards such as "He Liang He Li Award", "national outstanding contribution young and middle-aged experts" and "National Fund for Distinguished Youth".

The hospital has world-class medical equipment, including intraoperative radiotherapy machine, "Da Vinci" surgical robot, dual source CT, CyberKnife, PET / CT and other modern medical equipment. With the implementation of "intelligent hospital management, digital medical information, office automation and accurate medical support", the hospital is the first batch of digital demonstration hospitals in the whole army. The leading technologies in the world are: integrated diagnosis and treatment technology of kidney disease; Multiple organ transplantation of liver, intestine and spleen (the first case in Asia); Integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment of complex kidney disease; Pituitary transplantation (the first case in the world); Small bowel transplantation (the first case in Asia); The treatment of intestinal fistula.

In recent years, the hospital has successfully completed the tasks of peacekeeping in Liberia, rescue in Haiti, military aid in Zambia, 9.14 Tangshan tetramine poisoning, 8.9 chlorine poisoning, 5.25 major traffic accident, 7.28 Nanjing Explosion, 5.12 Wenchuan earthquake relief 8.2 Kunshan explosion and other international and domestic peacekeeping and rescue missions.

The hospital has been successively praised as "national top 100 hospitals", "national model unit of supporting the government and loving the people", "advanced hospital of serving the army", "advanced unit of building national emergency professional force" and so on. The construction experience of "research hospital" has been listed as a major typical propaganda by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee. The outstanding communist party members who are determined to serve the country and the people, Academician Li Jieshou, winner of the victory and meritorious service, and Chen Shengrong, winner of the Nightingale Prize, have emerged as the national major models.