As mentioned earlier, China's hospitals are divided into one, two and three levels according to their functions, the main contents of which are:
The first level of hospitals is the grass-roots hospitals that directly provide the community with medical, preventive, rehabilitation and health care services, and is the primary health care institution. Its main function is to provide primary prevention directly to the population, in the community management of patients with common diseases and difficult and serious illnesses and make the correct referral, to assist high-level hospitals to improve intermediate or post-hospital services, and rational triage of patients.
Secondary hospitals are regional hospitals that provide medical and health services across several communities, and are the technical centers of regional medical prevention. Its main function is to participate in guiding the monitoring of high-risk groups, accepting first-class referrals, first-class hospitals for business and technical guidance, and can carry out a certain degree of teaching and scientific research.
Tertiary hospitals are cross-regional, provincial, municipal, and to the national level to provide medical and health services to the hospital, is a comprehensive medical, teaching, research capabilities of the medical and preventive technology centers. Its main function is to provide specialized (including special specialties) medical services, to solve critical and difficult cases, to accept secondary referrals, the lower hospitals for business and technical guidance and training of personnel; to complete the training of a variety of high-level medical professionals teaching and undertake the task of scientific research projects in the province or above; to participate in and guide the work of the first and second level of prevention.
The delineation, layout and setup of the first, second and third level hospitals are to be decided by the regional (i.e., administrative divisions of cities and counties) health authorities in accordance with the unified planning of the population's demand for medical and health services. The level of hospitals should be relatively stable in order to maintain the integrity and rational operation of the three-tier medical prevention system.
3, hospital classification standards:
Based on the comprehensive level of hospitals, China's hospitals can be divided into three levels of ten, that is: first and second-class hospitals are divided into A, B, C, respectively. Three hospitals are divided into special, A, B, C four.
The standards and indicators of hospital classification, the main content should be:
(1) the size of the hospital, including beds, buildings, staffing, departmental settings and other four requirements and indicators;
(2) the technical level of the hospital, that is, with the level of the hospital level corresponding to the level of technology, the requirements and indicators in the standard according to the department;
(3) medical equipment;
(3) the hospital's medical equipment;
(4) the hospital is divided into three levels, namely: (a), (b), (c), (b), (c), (c). (3) medical equipment;
(4) the level of hospital management, including the quality of the director, engaged in management, information management, modern management techniques, hospital infection control, resource utilization, economic efficiency and other seven requirements and indicators;
(5) the quality of hospitals, including the quality of diagnosis, quality of treatment, quality of care, quality of work, quality of integrated and so on several requirements and indicators. China's current hospital grading standards, mainly at all levels of first-class hospitals as a benchmark for the development. First-class hospital standards, is the current, or within the next 3-5 years to meet the national, hospital management and health-related requirements of the standard, is the same level of hospitals in the advanced hospital standards, but also the future construction of new hospital standards.