Shanghai issued the "Shanghai Deepening Pilot Scheme for Establishing Interconnected Referral Mechanism of Elderly Care and Medical Beds".

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20/07/2025
The People's Government of Shanghai Municipality issued the "Shanghai Municipality Deepening Pilot Scheme for Establishing a Linkage Referral Mechanism between Elderly Care and Medical Beds". It mentions the establishment of a dynamic list, the overall coordination of elderly care and medical institution service resources, the clarification of the service functions and referral scopes of each service institution, the establishment of a dynamically updated "Elderly Care-Medical Bed Linkage Referral Resource Library" and a linkage referral agreement cooperation mechanism. It fully leverages the role of medical alliances, prioritizes the inclusion of community health service centers in the list of linked referral medical institutions, and gradually expands linkage to secondary and tertiary hospitals in areas with conditions, while encouraging private hospitals to actively participate.