Healthcare System Reform
Practice of the construction of urban medical alliance in Huzhou city
Dong Jianxin, Zhang Yongmei, Li Guodong, Xu Xiaoqin, Wu Suxiong
Published 2022-05-02
Cite as Chin J Hosp Admin, 2022, 38(5): 327-331. DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn111325-20220218-00130
Abstract
Promoting balanced distribution of medical resources and realizing high-quality sharing of basic medical services between urban and rural areas are an important part of common prosperity. Huzhou urban medical alliance was a new urban and rural of medical alliance mode based on level 4 vertical integration, which played an important role in the whole evolution process of the medical alliance. This medical alliance had not only broken through the " integration of counties" but also explored the " integration of cities" . It was a bridge connecting counties and cities, which was of great significance in narrowing the gap between urban and rural medical health services. The construction of urban medical alliance took digital transformation and systematic integration as two breakthroughs to comprehensively promote the upgrade of energy efficiency and benefit stacking of health governance. In 2021, the grass-roots medical utilization rate and county-level medical utilization rate were 72.7% and 90.6%. In 2020, the average hospitalization cost(8 726.7 yuan)and the average outpatient and emergency expenses(239.6 yuan)of public hospitals were 25.0% and 8.6% lower than the average level of Zhejiang Province, respectively. Although Huzhou city had broken through the restrictions of administrative divisions and actively promoted the construction of the medical alliance, and achieved phased results, there were still structural defects and institutional difficulties. In order to solve these problems, the author proposed to promote the improvement of governance structure and optimization of governance system through " three governance" and " three characteristics" , and then promote the high-quality development of urban medical alliances.
Key words:
Health care coalition; Medical alliance; Common prosperity; Governance system; Narrowing the urban-rural gap
Contributor Information
Dong Jianxin
School of Medicine, Huzhou University, Huzhou 313002, China
Zhang Yongmei
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Huzhou University, Huzhou 313002, China
Li Guodong
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The First People′s Hospital of Huzhou, Huzhou 313099, China
Xu Xiaoqin
Department of Pediatrics, Huzhou Branch of Hangzhou Hospital of Stomatology, Huzhou 313063, China
Wu Suxiong
School of Public Health and Management, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035, China