Public hospitals should provide support to elderly institutions

According to reports, Chongqing Medical University affiliated with the first hospital Qingbar elderly care center is the country's first large-scale public hospitals sponsored by the elderly institutions, although the establishment of 5 years, all over the country to visit the study of hospitals, nursing homes, but to this day, the hospital is still the only large-scale public hospitals in the country combined with water treatment.
November 2015, the General Office of the State Council forwarded the Guidance on Promoting the Integration of Health Care and Old-Age Services, and in 2016, the Ministry of Health and Civil Affairs issued a list of pilot units for the integration of state-level medical care. As early as 2013, Chongqing Medical University affiliated with the first hospital set up a pension institutions, although each bed charges more than 5000 yuan per month, but the bed long-term in short supply, the elderly need to queue to stay.
model should be "replicated" everywhere, but there are many learners who come to visit, but none of them follow suit. In other words, there is an "island phenomenon" in the combination of trial water treatment and medical care in public hospitals. Many hospitals reflect that policy barriers, profit orientation and medical care combined with their own lack of industry standards are the three main reasons. For example, hospitals are run by the health department, old-age care by the civil affairs department, the fragmented regulatory system caused by the policy difficult to coordinate, procedures difficult to handle and so on. For example, the hospital medical insurance management reimbursement, the hospital involved in the old-age institutions can not be reimbursed, private nursing homes can enjoy beds and other civil subsidies, public hospitals, but the old-age institutions are difficult to enjoy. All these will affect the enthusiasm of hospitals to run old-age institutions.
the author thinks that whether it is institutional barriers or policy barriers, can be broken. Local health authorities and civil affairs departments should start from the overall situation, abandon departmental barriers, and jointly actively support public hospitals to run old-age institutions. Although the relevant guidance issued by the state mentions a variety of ways to promote the integration of medical care, it does not seem to explicitly encourage public hospitals to run institutions for the elderly. It is expected that the state will come up with a plan to support public hospitals in setting up institutions for the elderly, including straightening out the regulatory system, breaking down policy barriers and setting uniform standards, so as to promote the development of high-quality and multi-way health care in various places. Of course, public hospitals should abandon the pursuit of short-term benefits and seek long-term returns with public welfare and micro-profit thinking. (Health News)