First-class hospitals are grass-roots hospitals that directly provide comprehensive services of medical treatment, prevention, rehabilitation and health care for the community, and are first-class medical insurance.
Health institutions. Its main function is to directly provide primary prevention for the population, manage frequently-occurring and common patients in the community, make correct referrals for difficult and severe cases, assist high-level hospitals to provide intermediate or post-hospital services, and rationally divert 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, accept first-class referrals, provide professional and technical guidance for first-class hospitals, and conduct teaching and scientific research to a certain extent. Tertiary hospitals are hospitals that provide medical and health services across regions, provinces, cities and the whole country, and are medical prevention technical centers with comprehensive medical treatment, teaching and scientific research capabilities. Its main function is to provide medical services for specialties (including special specialties), solve critical and difficult diseases, accept secondary referral, and provide professional technical guidance and personnel training for lower-level hospitals; Complete the teaching of cultivating all kinds of senior medical talents and undertake the tasks of scientific research projects at or above the provincial level; Participate in and guide primary and secondary prevention work. The delineation, layout and setting of the first, second and third-class hospitals shall be decided by the health authorities in the local area (i.e. the administrative divisions of cities and counties) according to the unified planning of the medical and health service needs of the population. The level of hospitals should be relatively stable to maintain the integrity and reasonable operation of the three-level medical prevention system. According to the comprehensive grade of hospitals, hospitals in China can be divided into three levels and ten levels, that is, the first and second level hospitals are divided into three levels: A, B and C respectively. Tertiary hospitals are divided into specialties, A, B and C, etc. The standards and indicators of hospital classification should mainly include: (1) the scale of the hospital, including the requirements and indicators of bed setting, building, staffing and department setting; (2) the technical level of the hospital, that is, the technical level corresponding to the hospital level, puts forward the requirements and indicators according to the department in the standard; (3) Medical equipment; (4) the management level of the hospital, including the requirements and indicators of the quality of department directors, management level, information management, modern management technology, hospital infection control, resource utilization and economic benefits; (5) Hospital quality, including the requirements and indicators of diagnosis quality, treatment quality, nursing quality, work quality and comprehensive quality. The current hospital classification standard in China is mainly based on the third-class hospitals at all levels. The standard of tertiary hospitals is the standard that can meet the requirements of the country, hospital management and health in the next 3-5 years. It is the advanced hospital standard among hospitals at the same level and the standard of new hospitals in the future.