'Moonlight Children's Hospital'Operated Children's Hospital's deficit structure"Improvement of fees and urgent financial assistance"
Oct 16, 2024
Choi Yong-jae, Chairman of the Korea Children's Hospital Association (formerly head of the Medical Government Strong Children's Hospital), said in connection with the Moonlight Children's Hospital, which has 37 member hospitals designated as the Moonlight Children's Hospital, "If the Children's Hospital operates the Moonlight Children's Hospital, it will be difficult to operate due to shameless Moonlight savings and the delay in government subsidies promised by the government."In order to operate Moonlight Children's Hospital efficiently, improvements in low-cost and state subsidies should be made as soon as possible."
The Korea Association for Children and Youth Hospitals said, "The purpose of operating Dalbit Children's Hospital is to distribute the treatment of mild patients in the emergency room, increase the efficiency of emergency room treatment, and reduce insurance financial savings. This policy has been transformed into a form in which the pediatric emergency room of a higher general hospital is not functioning properly and is being closed, and the pediatric emergency room will be in charge of the treatment of quasi-severe emergency patients with nowhere to go. Most of the member hospitals designated as Moonlight Children's Hospital among the current hospitals for children and youth have difficulties in management due to general treatment and emergency treatment for children at Moonlight Children.
In particular, the Dalbit Children's Hospital is priced equally without distinction between clinics and hospitals, and in the case of children and adolescents' hospitals, labor costs are burdened by the need for personnel who need to work such as doctors, nurses, labor, and medical technicians, and the more children there are due to the inability to calculate the materials for treatment, the more deficit the structure is."
He then pointed out that even though the burden of labor costs for children's and youth hospitals is greater than that of clinics, improvement is needed in operating Moonlight Children's Hospital based on the same fee.
Accordingly, the Korea Pediatric Youth Hospital Association suggested that "the primary medical institution should be left to the clinic level, and all hospitals that can manage quasi-severe cases should be redefined to take care of quasi-severe patients, and support should be strengthened with emergency medical funds or insurance finances to suit the level of treatment and the severity and circumstances of the inpatients."
The Korea Children and Youth Hospital Association also said, `The government promised to provide state subsidies twice in the first half and the second half of this year, but the government's initial state subsidies have been lowered and have not been paid at all, which is also putting the children and youth hospital operating Moonlight Children's Hospital in more difficulties.'
The association conducted a random sample survey of eight pediatric and juvenile hospitals to find out the state of state subsidies, and found that there were three hospitals that did not receive any payments, three that only received some, and two that confirmed that there was no state funding from the public health center at all" he said.
Choi Yong-jae, president of the Korea Children and Youth Hospital Association, said, "There is no guarantee of national subsidies, and due to the deficit structure, it is inevitable to operate examination rooms and treatment rooms, and as a result, most of the member hospitals that operate Moonlight Children's Hospital are considering returning the designation as Moonlight Children's Hospital. If such a situation occurs, it is feared that nightly pediatric patients will face great qualities in medical treatment, given that there are a series of reductions and closures of pediatric emergency rooms at university hospitals due to difficulties in background medical treatment." he warned.
Chairman Choi Yong-jae then said, `In order for Moonlight Children's Hospital to function as it is, children and adolescents' hospitals operating examination rooms and treatment rooms should be provided with necessary medical care in a timely manner to children with quasi-severe illness by expanding fees or subsidies equal to emergency rooms," he stressed.
Meanwhile, there are 95 Moonlight Children's Hospitals, of which 37 are children's and youth hospitals, accounting for 38.9%.
The Korea Association for Children and Youth Hospitals said, "The purpose of operating Dalbit Children's Hospital is to distribute the treatment of mild patients in the emergency room, increase the efficiency of emergency room treatment, and reduce insurance financial savings. This policy has been transformed into a form in which the pediatric emergency room of a higher general hospital is not functioning properly and is being closed, and the pediatric emergency room will be in charge of the treatment of quasi-severe emergency patients with nowhere to go. Most of the member hospitals designated as Moonlight Children's Hospital among the current hospitals for children and youth have difficulties in management due to general treatment and emergency treatment for children at Moonlight Children.
In particular, the Dalbit Children's Hospital is priced equally without distinction between clinics and hospitals, and in the case of children and adolescents' hospitals, labor costs are burdened by the need for personnel who need to work such as doctors, nurses, labor, and medical technicians, and the more children there are due to the inability to calculate the materials for treatment, the more deficit the structure is."
He then pointed out that even though the burden of labor costs for children's and youth hospitals is greater than that of clinics, improvement is needed in operating Moonlight Children's Hospital based on the same fee.
Accordingly, the Korea Pediatric Youth Hospital Association suggested that "the primary medical institution should be left to the clinic level, and all hospitals that can manage quasi-severe cases should be redefined to take care of quasi-severe patients, and support should be strengthened with emergency medical funds or insurance finances to suit the level of treatment and the severity and circumstances of the inpatients."
The Korea Children and Youth Hospital Association also said, `The government promised to provide state subsidies twice in the first half and the second half of this year, but the government's initial state subsidies have been lowered and have not been paid at all, which is also putting the children and youth hospital operating Moonlight Children's Hospital in more difficulties.'
The association conducted a random sample survey of eight pediatric and juvenile hospitals to find out the state of state subsidies, and found that there were three hospitals that did not receive any payments, three that only received some, and two that confirmed that there was no state funding from the public health center at all" he said.
Choi Yong-jae, president of the Korea Children and Youth Hospital Association, said, "There is no guarantee of national subsidies, and due to the deficit structure, it is inevitable to operate examination rooms and treatment rooms, and as a result, most of the member hospitals that operate Moonlight Children's Hospital are considering returning the designation as Moonlight Children's Hospital. If such a situation occurs, it is feared that nightly pediatric patients will face great qualities in medical treatment, given that there are a series of reductions and closures of pediatric emergency rooms at university hospitals due to difficulties in background medical treatment." he warned.
Chairman Choi Yong-jae then said, `In order for Moonlight Children's Hospital to function as it is, children and adolescents' hospitals operating examination rooms and treatment rooms should be provided with necessary medical care in a timely manner to children with quasi-severe illness by expanding fees or subsidies equal to emergency rooms," he stressed.
Meanwhile, there are 95 Moonlight Children's Hospitals, of which 37 are children's and youth hospitals, accounting for 38.9%.
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