A brief discussion on the connotations of constructing a green hospital / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

The term "a green hospital", meaning "a safe, dependable and harmless hospital", epitomizes the harmony between the hospital's intrinsic quality and extrinsic surroundings. Thus, the construction of a green hospital possesses rich connotations, viz. powerful guarantee, of medical safety, dependable guarantee of quality, delivery of civilized services and harmonious doctor-patient relationship, and comfortable and humanized surroundings for medical care. It is imperative to formulate comprehensive assessment standards for green hospitals or incorporate such standards into the conditions for hospital appraisal so as to render the idea of green hospital a target of hospital development.