The difference is mainly manifested in the following three aspects
1, the level is different:
(1) township health center is the county or township set up a kind of health administration and medical preventive work of the comprehensive institutions, its task is responsible for the location of the area of health care work, organization and leadership of the mass health movement, training of health technicians.
At the same time on the primary health care institutions for business guidance and consultation work, is an important link in the rural three-tier medical network, bear the medical prevention, health care is an important task, is a direct solution to the difficulties in rural areas to see a doctor to see an important gate.
(2) county (city) level hospitals are clinical treatment hospitals, is the main place for the people to see a doctor, is a clinically difficult common diseases, common diseases, and emergency treatment center, is a three-tiered medical network in rural areas of the leader of the goal is to ensure that "the major illnesses are not out of the county (city)".
The new medical reform clearly to establish the county hospital as the leader, to the township health center as the backbone, to the village health center as the basis of the three-tier medical radiation network. In addition to treating and rescuing critically ill patients, county hospitals will also undertake business and technical guidance and training for rural health organizations.
2, treatment is different:
(1) county hospital treatment enjoy the county-level institutions personnel minimum wage.
(2) Township health center to enjoy the township institutions personnel minimum wage.
3, the development of different:
(1) township health center development goals: gradually strengthened with a full complement of health professionals, to ensure that the people "in the sick do not go out of the township"; gradually increase the financial input, so that the township health centers from the self-supporting medicine to the government to support the medical; and gradually promote the management of the township health center reform. system reform; strengthening the customization and market-oriented operation of the special products of township health centers.
(2) County hospital development goals: as one of the five key implementation programs, in three years the central government will focus on supporting about 2,000 county hospitals to build a primary health care service system, so that at least one county hospital in each county will basically reach a standardized level.
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