On how the hospital level is divided into one level, two levels and three levels are as follows:
The delineation, layout and setup of the first, second and third level hospitals shall be decided by the regional (i.e., city and county administrative divisions) health authorities according to the unified planning of the population's demand for medical and health services. The level of hospitals should be relatively stable in order to maintain the integrity and rational operation of the three-tier medical prevention system.
The standards and indicators of hospital grading, the main content should be: the size of the hospital, including beds set up, construction, staffing, department set up and other four aspects of the requirements and indicators; the technical level of the hospital, that is, with the level of the hospital corresponding to the level of technology, in the standard by department to put forward the requirements and indicators; medical equipment.
Hospital management level, including the quality of the director, personnel management, information management, modern management technology, hospital infection control, resource utilization, economic efficiency and other seven requirements and indicators; hospital quality, including diagnostic quality, quality of treatment, quality of care, quality of work, quality of the overall quality of several aspects of the 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 in the next 3-5 years to meet the state, hospital management and hygiene related requirements of the standard, is the same level of hospitals in the advanced hospital standards, but also in the future construction of new hospital standards.
Classification of hospitals
Level I hospitals are primary hospitals that directly provide integrated medical, preventive, rehabilitative, and health care services to the community, and are primary health care institutions. Its main function is to provide primary prevention directly to the population, in the community management of multiple diseases and common illnesses patients and difficult to do the correct referral, to assist high-level hospitals to improve intermediate or post-hospital services, reasonable diversion of patients.
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.
Tertiary hospitals are hospitals that provide medical and health services across regions, provinces and cities as well as to the whole country, and are technical centers of medical prevention with comprehensive medical, teaching and scientific research capabilities.
The main function of the hospital is to provide specialized medical services, solve critical and difficult cases, accept secondary referrals, and provide business and technical guidance to lower hospitals and training of personnel; to complete the training of a variety of high-level medical professionals in the teaching and undertaking the task of scientific research projects above the provincial level; and to participate in and guide the work of first- and second-degree prevention.