Private hospitals, also known as private hospitals, are hospitals that are not publicly run by the government and are private in nature.
Private hospitals, a term unique to China, are health institutions run by socially funded for-profit organizations; there are also a few non-profit organizations that receive government subsidies. In the 1980s, private hospitals have appeared in China's healthcare industry. But the real large-scale development of private hospitals in China came after 2001.
While there were no policy restrictions on the establishment of private hospitals, the health department was very strict in approving private hospitals out of protection of public hospitals, and it was difficult for private hospitals to develop in such an environment.
China opened up its healthcare market in September 2001, encouraging the development of private healthcare organizations, and private hospitals began to appear in large numbers in the society.
Extended information:
Hospital is a service industry, from the nature of the hospital for-profit hospitals, there are non-profit hospitals, from the property rights of public hospitals, there are private hospitals, from the level of hospitals in terms of the hospitals have a class A, B, C hospitals, hospitals from the size of the hospitals in terms of the level of first-class, second-class, third-class hospitals.
The object of their services include not only the symptomatic sick and wounded, but also the elderly who can not take care of themselves or have limited activities with medical care dependence, forensic evaluation of medical care dependence or unstable condition requires long-term rehabilitation and frequent observation and examination of the seriously ill and wounded, or other specific circumstances and people.
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