Polish Private Hospitals Association

1. Polish Private Hospitals Association Prepared: Medical Institut EuroMediCare

2. Public hospitals compared to private hospitals in Poland http://www.sygma.pl

3. Public hospitals compared to private hospitals in Poland Public and private hospitals activities in 2000 and 2001 http://www.sygma.pl

4. Public hospitals compared to private hospitals in Poland - Stationary health service/medical care: hospital, medical attention institution, nursing/care institution, nursing home (sanitarium), preventorium and other medical institutions (according to OECD definition). http://www.sygma.pl

5. 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;

6. Expences on medical service in Poland compared to other countries in 1999 OECD Health Data 2002

7. 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.

8. 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;

9. 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;

10. Beds The Hospitals Association have: 2300 beds

11. Surgeries In 2002 the Hospitals Association performed: 58 500 surgeries

12. Out-patient treatments In 2002 the Hospitals Association gave: 540 278 out-patient treatments compared to total amount of out-patient treatments in Poland=533 million (0.1%)

13. Employees TheHospitals Association employ: 3755 employees including 624 full-time doctors and 1358 contract(half-time) doctors