The distinctions are as follows:
First-class designated medical institutions: they are primary hospitals and health centers that provide preventive, medical, health care, and rehabilitation services directly to communities of a certain population. (The number of hospital beds is less than one hundred).
Second-level designated medical institutions: regional hospitals that provide comprehensive medical and health services to multiple communities and undertake certain teaching and research tasks. (The number of hospital beds is between 101-500).
Tertiary designated medical institutions: regional hospitals that provide high-level specialized medical and health services to several regions and carry out higher education and scientific research tasks. (500 or more beds).
Expanded Information
Levels of designated medical institutions usually refers to hospitals at all levels, after the evaluation, in accordance with the "Hospital Classification and Management Standards" to determine the three levels of A, B, C. (The division of A, B, C is based on the differences in the level of technical level, medical conditions, management level, etc., and the inspection is based on a thousand-point scoring system. A, B and C are divided according to the score.) Among them, special classes are added to the third-level hospitals, so the hospitals*** are divided into three levels and ten classes. (In actual implementation, the first level is not divided into equal).
The hospitals at all levels should establish and improve the two-way referral system and the relationship between the technical guidance by level.
The criteria and indicators for the classification of designated medical institutions should be:
1, the scale of the medical institution, including the requirements and indicators for the four aspects of bed setting, construction, staffing, and department setting;
2, the technical level of the medical institution, i.e., the technical level corresponding to the level of the hospital, and the requirements and indicators should be put forward according to departments in the criteria;
3, the medical institution equipment;
4, the management level of medical institutions, including the quality of the director, personnel management, information management, modern management techniques, hospital infection control, resource utilization, economic efficiency and other seven requirements and indicators;
5, the quality of health care institutions, including the quality of diagnosis, quality of treatment, quality of care, quality of work, quality of the integrated and so on. Requirements and indicators. China's current hospital grading standards, mainly at all levels of first-class hospitals as a benchmark. First-class hospital standards, is the current, or within the next 3-5 years to meet the state, hospital management and hygiene standards of the relevant requirements, is the same level of hospitals in the advanced hospital standards, but also in the future construction of new hospital standards.
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