China Government Management Of Nonprofit Hospitals

It is significant both in theory and practice to the medical reform to probe the scientific and effective ways in managing non-profit hospital in China Basing upon domestic practical situation and connecting foreign experiences.China's non-profit hospital, the main body of medical organ, burdens the mission of preserving our people's health, and supplying medical public goods for people instead of the government. In recent years, non-profit hospital is in the course of society transfer, so the government is facing various problems in managing it. And the government burdens heavy responsibility in effectively managing non-profit hospital and ensuring its permanent public welfare character.In view of the character of sanitation industry, in the management of non-profit hospital, the government should perform as investor of hospital establishment, finance collector of hospital development, the preserver of sanitary order, and supplier of sanitary legislation. Learning from overseas government's experiences in hospital management, the principles the government should obey in managing non-profit hospital are those: the principle of lawful management; the principle of state-ownership; the principle of public character and non-profit; the principle of separation between ownership and management ship; patients-oriented principle and government-dominate principle. In order to realize the effective management in non-profit hospital, efforts should be made from those aspects: reform the system of property rights of hospital; truly transform government functions; perfect compensation mechanism of hospital; reinforce construction of legal system; establish hospital group; speed up the implement of area sanitary plan; the government should change ways of management.The original point of the essay is focus on the realization of the public welfare mission of non-profit hospital encircling the fulfillment of the government function from the angle of politics. But the weaknessis that more demonstration research should be used to further enrich the research fruits.