Abstract:Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is highly contagious. Once the elderly has been infected with the 2019 novel coronavirus, the treatment is difficult and the mortality is high. The COVID-19 epidemic challenges and requires the construction and operation of geriatric hospitals in China. Considering the construction standard and evaluation standard for geriatric hospitals performed currently by national and provincial medical institutions management authorities, together with our working experiences in hospital administrations, we discussed the way it can be improved in the following aspects, including requirements for infectious disease prevention and control, improvement in architecture design, personnel allocation, cross-connection of geriatrics and hospital buildings design, and construction and operation optimization of medical treatment group company, etc. It is expected to be helpful for better service provided to the elderly in geriatric hospitals.