Two Shenzhen public hospitals— Shenzhen No. 2 People’s Hospital and Shenzhen No. 3 People’s Hospital— were among the 13 hospitals included in a list of the second batch of key hospitals in Guangdong Province, the Shenzhen Economic Daily reported.
The list was released Wednesday. Up to now, four hospitals in Shenzhen have been selected as key hospitals in the province.
Shenzhen No. 2 People’s Hospital is a public hospital that has enjoyed a long history in the city. Its goal is to become a research-oriented hospital with distinctive disciplinary characteristics and a regional medical center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area by 2022.
It aims to promote its comprehensive strength to reach the top 20 in South China and the top 100 in the whole country. It will also build an innovative platform for precise medical treatment and cultivate one to three provincial clinical medicine research centers.
Shenzhen No. 3 People’s Hospital enjoys competitive advantages in hospital rankings on scientific and technological influence in the areas of tuberculosis, new infectious diseases and liver transplants.
In a separate development,96 medical institutions in Shenzhen had joined the Guangdong medical insurance direct settlement platform as of Nov. 30, 2018, realizing direct settlement of hospitalization costs with 742 medical institutions across the province, and providing settlement services to 2,067 local residents and 35,945 nonlocal residents with medical expenses amounting to 40.71 million yuan (US$5.90 million) and 731 million yuan, respectively, according to the city’s social security bureau.
A total of 87,455 Shenzhen residents with medical insurance have settled their medical bills through the platform, with medical expenses reaching 2.03 billion yuan. Meanwhile, the city’s medical institutions have provided direct settlement services for 65,248 nonlocal residents with medical expenses totaling 1.20 billion yuan.
Additionally, the bureau launched a cross-provincial platform for directly settling hospitalization expenses in April 2017.