Classification of hospitals in China

China's hospitals are divided into levels: primary, secondary and tertiary.

1, the first level of hospitals is directly for the community to provide medical care, prevention, rehabilitation, health care integrated services of primary hospitals, is the primary health care institutions. Its main function is directly to the population to provide a level of prevention, in the community management of multiple diseases and common disease patients and difficult to do the right referral, to assist high-level hospitals to improve the intermediate or post-hospital services, and rational triage of patients.

2, second-level hospitals are regional hospitals that provide medical and health services across several communities, and are the technical centers of regional medical prevention. Its main functions are to participate in guiding the monitoring of high-risk groups, to receive first-level referrals, to provide operational and technical guidance to first-level hospitals, and to be able to conduct a certain degree of teaching and scientific research.

3, tertiary hospitals are inter-regional, provincial, municipal and to the national health care services to provide hospitals, is a comprehensive medical, teaching, scientific research capabilities of medical prevention of technical centers. Its main function is to provide specialized (including special specialties) medical services, to solve critical and difficult cases, to accept secondary referrals, to lower hospitals for business and technical guidance and training of personnel; to complete the cultivation of a variety of high-level medical professionals in the teaching and undertake the task of scientific research projects in the province and above; to participate in and guide the work of first- and second-degree prevention.

Hospital grading standards:

Hospital grading standards, is our country according to the size of the hospital, scientific research direction, human resources and technical strength, medical hardware and equipment, etc. on the hospital qualification assessment index. The whole country is unified, regardless of the hospital background, all the nature, etc..

Hospital grading management is based on the hospital's functions, tasks, facilities and conditions, technical construction, quality of medical services and the comprehensive level of scientific management. The essence of hospital hierarchical management is in accordance with the principles of modern hospital management, in accordance with the scientific laws of medical and health services and characteristics of the hospital standardized management and target management.

The setting up and grading of hospitals should be determined by the health administrative department according to the local government's regional health plan under the principle of ensuring the reasonable structure and overall function of the urban and rural health care network.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Hospital Classification Standards for the above content