According to the industry classification in the relevant legal provisions, hospitals belong to the health industry, but there is no specific definition of the health industry, and the classification does not indicate what is classified according to.
The difference between a clinic and a hospital is as follows:
1, the level is different, the lowest level of hospitals for the first, the highest for the third class; clinics do not have a level. Clinic is also known as the clinic, medical clinic, is smaller than the hospital medical institutions, generally for private practice of doctors treating patients or general refers to the scale of the hospital smaller medical clinic.
2, the hospital is to provide medical care to people as the main purpose of the medical institutions. The object of its services include not only patients and the injured, but also in a particular physiological state of the healthy people.
3, tertiary hospitals are now China's highest level of hospitals, usually the largest general hospital or specialty hospitals. There are three types of hospitals: A, B and C. A class A hospital is the highest level of hospitals.
4, the equipment is different, the hospital equipment completely; clinic inspection equipment is almost zero. Hospitals on the minimum number of beds, the number of medical staff, equipment, site area, etc. must meet certain requirements to be established.
5, the clinic also includes two kinds of public clinics (community health service centers) and private clinics, which have very little equipment, and if it is a serious disease, you need to go to the hospital in order to be treated.
6, hospitals should have formal wards and a certain number of beds facilities. To implement inpatient treatment, generally have the corresponding outpatient department, should have basic medical equipment, set up pharmacy, testing, radiology, surgery and sterilization and other medical and technical diagnostic and treatment departments, should be able to hospitalized patients to provide qualified and reasonable diagnosis and treatment, nursing and basic life services. The basic equipment of tertiary general hospitals, including oxygen device ventilator, electric suction, etc..
7, different scales, hospitals are large; clinics are small. The role of clinics in our country is very significant. Because of our country's rural population is large and unevenly distributed, large hospitals can not meet the number of such a large number of rural population with such a wide distribution area.
8, hospitals were initially set up for people to take refuge, and entertainment programs to make visitors comfortable, with the intention of hospitality. Only later did it gradually become a specialized institution for the reception and treatment of patients.
9, in the hospital each room covers an area of regulations, for example, a general hospital each building area of not less than 45 square meters.
In summary, the purpose of the clinic is to save lives and treat patients. Regardless of whether it is a medical or surgical department, or even other departments, and whether it is public or individual, the overall aim is to save lives and treat the sick to save others, and to serve the people.
Legal basis:
Article 15 of the Regulations on the Administration of Medical Institutions
Medical institutions must be registered and receive a license to practice medicine.
Article 16
Applicants for registration to practice in a medical institution shall have the following conditions:
(1) an approval letter for setting up a medical institution;
(2) compliance with the basic standards of a medical institution;
(3) a suitable name, organization, and premises;
(4) funding appropriate to the business it carries out , facilities, equipment and professional health technicians;
(v) have appropriate rules and regulations;
(vi) be able to independently assume civil liability.