What does secondary medical care mean?

Secondary medical care refers to a medical institution with a certain technical level and medical professional characteristics based on comprehensive medical services. Secondary medical institutions include county-level general hospitals, city hospitals and special specialized hospitals. These medical institutions usually have relatively complete laboratories, inspection equipment and treatment facilities, which can provide qualitative and quantitative diagnosis and treatment services.

In secondary medical institutions, medical staff are generally doctors and nurses with high medical level and professional knowledge. The medical services provided by medical institutions are not only routine outpatient, emergency and hospitalization services, but also specialist services and community medical services. Community medical service refers to medical institutions that provide people with preventive health care, common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases.

The status of secondary medical institutions in medical services is still relatively important. They can not only give full play to the medical functions that primary medical institutions can't achieve, but also provide high-level and high-quality medical services. Residents can get more comprehensive and professional medical services in secondary medical institutions. Therefore, secondary medical institutions have been widely recognized and praised by the society.