Comparative study on the service capacity changes of county-level general hospitals in Fujian province / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To learn the present development and comprehensive reform of county-level general hospitals in Fujian province.Methods Questionnaires were used to survey the development of 59 county-level general hospitals in 2013 and 2016 in the province. The study covered such aspects as basic profile, number of beds, human resources, service capacity, department setup and medical technology development among others. These data were replenished by information from the service capacity survey data collection system for county-level hospitals of the National Health and Family Planning Commission. The data so acquired were subject to descriptive statistics. Results 59 such hospitals had made developments and progress to various extents in terms of the number of beds, human resources, medical service capacity, department setup and medical technology development. Compared with those in 2013, their beds, employees, and number of inpatients and outpatients had grown by 3. 78% , 12. 24% and 7. 95% respectively. Conclusions These hospitals should, based on scientific planning, appropriately scale up, strengthen their high-caliber talent teams, focus on the development of key technologies and key weak disciplines. These efforts will help develop core competitiveness, and deepen their comprehensive reform.