Prevention and control of coronavirus disease 2019 in Grade-III Class-A hospitals outside of Wuhan

The Chinese People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force Characteristic Medical Center (hereafter called “the Center”) is a Grade-III Class-A hospital surrounded by large communities. Since January 1st, in fast response to the epidemic development, the medical center switched its management strategy from the conventional mode of diagnosis and treatment to the emergency mode of epidemic prevention and control. [...]the rational distribution of medical resources is necessary. A comprehensive and elaborate hospital prevention and control system with full participation of all the staff is an initial and critical step in the regional, national or even worldwide epidemic prevention and control. [...]medical institutions need to have in place a resilient and hierarchical system to carry out well-targeted measures for epidemic prevention and control.