The level is different, the equipment is different, the scale is different and so on.
1, the level of different
The lowest level of hospitals for the first, the highest for the third class; clinics have no level. The clinic is also known as the clinic, medical clinic, is smaller than the hospital medical institutions, generally for the private practice of the doctor to treat the patient's place or a general reference to the scale of the hospital smaller medical clinic. A hospital is a medical institution whose main purpose is to provide medical care to people. Its services include not only the sick and injured, but also in a particular physiological state of healthy people.
Tertiary hospitals are the highest level of hospitals in China today, and are generally the largest general or specialized hospitals. Level 3 hospitals are also divided into three categories: A, B, and C. Level 3A hospitals are the highest in the hierarchy.
2, different equipment
Hospital equipment is completely; clinic inspection equipment is almost zero. Hospitals on the minimum number of beds, the number of medical staff, equipment, site area, etc. must meet certain requirements in order to be established. Clinics, which also include both public clinics (community health centers) and private clinics, have very little equipment, and in the case of serious illnesses, you need to go to a hospital to be treated.
Hospitals should have formal wards and a certain number of beds. To implement inpatient treatment, generally have the appropriate outpatient department, should have basic medical equipment, set up pharmacy, testing, radiology, surgery and sterilization supply and other medical and technical diagnostic and treatment departments, should be able to provide qualified and reasonable diagnosis and treatment of hospitalized patients, nursing and basic life services. Tertiary general hospital basic equipment, including oxygen device ventilator, electric suction, etc..
3, different scales
Hospitals are large; clinics are small. The role of the clinic in our country is very significant. Because of our country's rural population is large and unevenly distributed, large hospitals can not meet the number of such a large number of rural population with such a wide distribution area. When hospitals were first set up, they were for shelter, and there were entertainment programs to make the visitors comfortable, with the intention of entertaining them. Only later did they evolve into specialized institutions for the reception and treatment of the sick.
The floor space of each room in a hospital is regulated, for example, the floor space of each room in a first-class general hospital is not less than 45 square meters.
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