The Problems And Countermeasure Study Of Promoting Medical Care & Pension Services Combination Model In Public Hospital In Hefei City

In the rapid growth of the elderly population in China, the issue of pension services for ailing elderly people becomes significant and critical.In recent years, many areas have explored the new model of "Medical Care & Pension Services Combination". In this model, the "Medical Care" is combined with the "Pension Services" with emphasis on the importance of medical care which provides a significant approach to solve the pension services problem of ailing elderly people.This article is set in the present Hefei City with the backdrop of high degree of aging population, quick development speed, and more and more people getting old before getting rich. Considering the urgent heath conditions of the population in Hefei, the author collected and arranged the information related to the current state of the pension organizations in Hefei, and points out these organizations have many problems such as inferior facilities, large range of different service standards, backward medical service level, short of staff and unprofessional nurses. In order to deal with the current situation of the ageing populations, the Binhu Hospital in Hefei is one of the premier organizations explored the "Medical Care & Pension Services Combination" model.The hospital set 236 beds for "Medical Care & Pension Services Combination" in 2010, and implemented two kinds of manage methods of "medical care" and "pension services". With the changing condition of the aging patient, the hospital has achieved easily switching between these two methods without changing the bed.With the researches and analysis in the aspects of charging standards, cost and profit situations, and the patient satisfactions of the "Medical Care & Pension Services Combination" district In Binhu Hospital, the result shown that the "Medical Care & Pension Services Combination" model has provide a ideal approach to release the pressure of pension service for aging patient. However, as the reasons of lack of bed resource, high cost and expensive charge fees, the "Medical Care & Pension Services Combination" district in Binhu Hospital only can handle some aging patient’s pension problem, particularly for the elderly people with good financial conditions and high disability conditions.In 2013, the "Medical Care & Pension Services Combination" model has been copied to Medical & Health Center by the NO.1 Hospital Group of Hefei City which is the parent unit of Binhu hospital. It provides a effective reference for those medical organizations without clear target and high profit. Meanwhile, the Medical & Health Center has enlarge the scale of "Medical Care & Pension Services Combination", and put the great effort on explore two kinds of "Medical Care & Pension Services Combination" services in public hospital, which are house-pension and hospitalpice.The public hospital has its advantages in implementing the "Medical Care & Pension Services Combination", especially for achieving complete connection of "Medical Care" and "Pension Services", and it can obtain the support from the national insurance. But in the service of "Medical Care & Pension Services Combination", the practice is in front of the policy. Therefore, the outstanding problems for implementation of "Medical Care & Pension Services Combination" in public hospital are occurred on top design area, e.g. multiple management of government and lack of reserve talent forces.To ensure the healthy development of "Medical Care & Pension Services Combination" model in public hospital, firstly, we should establish an integrated administrative coordination system with a good top design.At the same time, the overall planning of the health care industry should consider increase "Medical Care & Pension Services Combination" beds in new established hospital, or change some medical organizations to "Medical Care & Pension Services Combination" organizations to relieve stress for short of beds. For the problem for lack of talent people, we should put the focus on the education, set the completed "Medical Care & Pension Services Combination" organizations as the platform, and establish the professional talent training center. The aging population problem is not only happening in China, it is a worldwide issue. The methods have been adopted by America, Germany and Japan can supply valuable experiences for China to learn, especially for Japanese "nursing talent" education and training for "nursing care" is worth to become to an important reference model for China to educate and develop its own "Medical Care & Pension Services Combination" talents...