How are Healthcare Public Service Providers Classified from July 1, 2024?
How are healthcare public service providers classified from July 1, 2024?
Based on the provisions of Article 2 of Circular 06/2024/TT-BYT regarding the classification of healthcare public service providers as follows:
Classification of healthcare public service providers
Healthcare facilities for medical examination and treatment are classified into 04 ranks: special rank, rank I, rank II, rank III.
Preventive healthcare facilities; testing and assessment facilities, and district health centers at district, town, provincial city, and centrally governed city levels are classified into 04 ranks: rank I, rank II, rank III, rank IV.
The classification of healthcare public service providers from July 1, 2024, is specifically as follows:
- For healthcare facilities for medical examination and treatment, they are classified into 04 ranks: special rank, rank 1, rank 2, rank 3.
- For preventive healthcare facilities; testing and assessment facilities, and district health centers at district, town, provincial city, and centrally governed city levels, they are classified into 04 ranks: rank 1, rank 2, rank 3, rank 4.
How are healthcare public service providers classified from July 1, 2024? (Image from Internet)
What are the criteria for classifying special rank healthcare facilities?
Based on Appendix 5 issued with Circular 06/2024/TT-BYT, the criteria for classifying special rank healthcare facilities are as follows:
| No. | CRITERIA | EVALUATION |
|---|---|---|
| :---: | :---: | :---: |
| 1 | Role, function, and tasks | |
| 1.1 | Is the final stage in the treatment hierarchy; receives and treats patients (at least 5 deep-specialty departments for general hospitals) within the scope of multiple regions or nationwide | Met |
| 1.2 | Is a practicing and training facility for postgraduate staff; hospital staff directly participate in postgraduate training and deep-specialty training for the region or nationwide | Met |
| 2 | Scale and organization of departments | |
| 2.1 | Organize departments within the hospital according to specialties and deep specialties to fulfill assigned functions and tasks. Clinical departments are organized by specialty and deep specialty. Have specialty laboratories in the paraclinical area |
Met |
| 2.2 | Provide level I and II care to 100% of patients within the scope of level I and II care | Met |
| 3 | Professional and management qualifications of staff | |
| 3.1 | 100% of heads of clinical and paraclinical departments hold a Doctorate or Specialty II degree | Met |
| 3.2 | 70% of treating doctors in clinical departments hold postgraduate degrees | Met |
| 4 | Technical professional capacity | |
| 4.1 | Have leading experts participating in the drafting committee and editorial team for developing legal documents on healthcare expertise at the Ministry level | Met |
| 4.2 | Have leading experts participating in the Ministry-level professional healthcare boards for developing diagnosis, treatment guidelines; technical professional procedures; professional boards for reviewing medical incidents; professional boards for appraising technical lists | Met |
| 4.3 | Ensure personnel, infrastructure, equipment, and carry out modern, specialized techniques in hematology, biochemistry, microbiology, immunology, molecular biology, radiology, anatomical pathology,... (tests for cancer diagnosis, antigen, antibody identification, bacterial, virus identification, chromosome structure, gene structure, molecular biology tests, coagulation,... ) Review techniques implemented in accordance with the functional and specialized nature of the hospital. |
Met |
| 4.5 | Ensure personnel, infrastructure, equipment, and carry out modern, complex, specialized functional explorations and imaging diagnostics (CT scan, MRI, DSA angiography, C-arm, PET CT,... ). Review equipment categories and techniques carried out in accordance with the functional and specialized nature of the hospital. |
Met |
| 4.6 | Ensure personnel, infrastructure, equipment, and carry out modern, complex, specialized medical techniques such as: tissue, organ transplantation, body part transplantation, use of robots in surgery, microsurgery, prenatal diagnosis, IVF, open-heart surgery, vascular intervention, cardiac catheterization, radiation exploration, radiotherapy, neurosurgery, vascular surgery, reconstructive surgery using synthetic materials,... | Met |
| 4.7 | Ensure personnel, infrastructure, equipment, and carry out comprehensive functional rehabilitation according to disease model, early rehabilitation for patients. | Met |
What does the application for classification of healthcare public service providers include?
Based on Clause 2, Article 4 of Circular 06/2024/TT-BYT, the application for classification of healthcare public service providers includes the following documents:
- Request letter for classification from the unit
- Scoring table for standard groups as prescribed
- Supporting statistical documents and figures for achieved scores
- Other relevant documents
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