The lowest level of a hospital is level 1, and the highest level is level 3 A; There is no hierarchy in clinics. Clinics, also known as clinics and medical clinics, are smaller medical institutions than hospitals, and are generally places where private doctors treat patients or generally refer to medical clinics smaller than hospitals. Hospital refers to a medical institution whose main purpose is to provide people with medical and health care services. Its customers include not only patients and wounded, but also healthy people in a specific physiological state.

The tertiary hospital is the highest level hospital in China, and it is generally the largest general hospital or specialized hospital. Tertiary hospitals are also divided into three categories: A, B and C, and tertiary hospitals are the highest among tertiary hospitals.

2. Different equipment

The hospital is fully equipped; The inspection equipment in the clinic is almost zero. The minimum number of beds, the number of medical staff, equipment and site area of a hospital must meet certain requirements before it can be established. Clinics also include public clinics (community health service centers) and private clinics with little equipment. If it is a serious disease, you need to go to the hospital for treatment.

Hospitals should have regular wards and a certain number of sickbed facilities. Mainly to carry out in-patient diagnosis and treatment, generally there are corresponding outpatient departments, basic medical equipment, and medical technology diagnosis and treatment departments such as pharmacy, inspection, radiation, surgery, disinfection supply, etc., which should be able to provide qualified and reasonable diagnosis and treatment, nursing and basic living services for inpatients. The basic equipment of tertiary general hospital includes oxygen supply device, ventilator, electric aspirator, etc.