Built in 1985, Shanghai Waterway Hospital is a second-class hospital. It was given the second named Shanghai Waterway Nursing Home for the elderly in 1999. It is the designated hospital for Shanghai Health Insurance, and Shanghai elderly-friendly medical institutions.

The hospital is mainly engaged in the diagnosis, treatment, nursing and rehabilitation of senile diseases, and it also provids medical examination services. It is designated by the Medical Examination Hospital for seafarers and Inland River Seafarers for the State Maritime department. With 203 beds, the number of annual discharged elderly patients is 2,000, the number of annual physical examination is 15,000 . The hospital has imported medical equipment, such as CT, color ultrasonic diagnostic instrument, automatic biochemical test instrument, cardiopulmonary exercise test, special vehicle for physical examination, etc. . The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Stomatology and the physical examination center are the characteristic departments of the hospital.