Model Development for a Leading Sub-district Health Promoting Hospital of Thailand

Abstract

The sub-district health promoting hospitals are primary care units that are closest to the people. The main focus of these facilities is on providing people with fairer health services covering health promotion, disease prevention and control, medical treatment, and rehabilitation that are universally effective. Sub-district health promoting hospitals are continually developing health care services to be of higher quality and standards under the participation of the government sector, local government organizations, private sector, and the public sector. The article introduces model development for a leading sub-district health promoting hospital of Thailand (7-excellence model) which consists of 7 components as follows: management excellence, information excellence, team excellence, service excellence, participation excellence, innovation excellence, and accreditation excellence. This model will be a mechanism that drives the development of the internal work system throughout the organization in a systematic way for the quality and standards, easy access to services, and effective reactive and proactive medical treatment.