Polish Private Hospitals Association

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Polish Private Hospitals Association

• Prepared Medical Institut EuroMediCare

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Public hospitals compared to private hospitals in
Poland

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Public hospitals compared to private hospitals in
Poland
Public and private hospitals activities in 2000
and 2001

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Public hospitals compared to private hospitals in
Poland

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- Stationary health service/medical care
hospital, medical attention institution,
nursing/care institution, nursing home
(sanitarium), preventorium and other medical
institutions (according to OECD definition).
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Further development disadvantages of private
hospitals

• no clear perspective of long-term investments (no
  legal regulation)
• lack of long-term contracts to finance medical
  services with private sector funds
• unforeseeability of changes in financing
  conditions of hospitals
• non-efficient public hospitals favoured by Payer,
  uncontrolled rise of debt
• NHF as a monopolist

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Expences on medical service in Poland
compared to other countries in 1999

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OECD Health Data 2002
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Hospitals Association members
- 42 private hospitals situated in different
regions of Poland. - Main fields of medical
service in Union hospitals are surgery, urology,
orthopedics, plastic surgery, neurosurgery.-
There are modern and transformed from public
hospitals.

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Polish Private Hospitals Association was
established to

• carry out collective data policies about the
  abilities of private hospitals in the country and
  abroad
• share negotiations with insurance companies, the
  civil service and municipal government
• jointly raise the quality and run the process of
  the certifications of medical services (eg. ISO)
• jointly negotiate contracts to purchase medical
  equipment, medical drugs and dressing supplies

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Association created a system of an internal
data base to

• monitor planned changes to health services
• introduce or plan new health regulations
• provide access for Union members to interesting
  offers of regional firms that supply medical
  products

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Beds

• The Hospitals Association
• have
• 2300 beds

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Surgeries

• In 2002 the Hospitals Association
• performed
• 58 500 surgeries

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Out-patient treatments

• In 2002 the Hospitals Association
• gave
• 540 278 out-patient treatments
• compared to total amount
• of out-patient treatments in Poland533 million
  (0.1)

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Employees

• The Hospitals Association
• employ
• 3755 employees
• including 624 full-time doctors
• and 1358 contract(half-time) doctors