The Emergency County Hospital of Miercurea Ciuc is a health care unit with an emergency department. Being a subordinate institution of Harghita County Council, the Hospital is public property that provides health care services and functions according to the principles stated in Act no. 95/2006, with subsequent modifications. 

Over the years, the Emergency County Hospital of Miercurea Ciuc has developed a wide range of health care services, which are requested by inhabitants of the town of Miercurea Ciuc, County Harghita and the adjoining counties. The activities of the Hospital are taking place in five separate buildings: the main building and four other buildings in different areas of the town, at 1-4 km distance from the main building, respectively Vlăhița Health Center is situated 35 km from Miercurea Ciuc.    

The Hospital has many employees – doctors, nurses, staff with higher education, support staff, technical, economic and administrative staff, and other workers – and provides appropriate treatment standards in the following fields: internal medicine, nephrology, gastroenterology, neurology, neurosurgery, general surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, thoracic surgery, vascular surgery, cardiology, endocrinology, orthopedics and traumatology, diabetes, nutrition, metabolic diseases, hematology, rheumatology, balneotherapy and physiotherapy, urology, ophthalmology, oncology, infectious diseases, pneumology, dermatovenerology, psychiatry and otorhinolaryngology.  

The operating block includes several operating rooms near which the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, as well as the Transfusion Unit functions. 

The Hospital disposes of a modern Emergency Care Unit where more than 25,000 cases are treated yearly. 

At the same time, the Hospital also disposes of high-performance diagnostic tools such as a computed tomography (CT). 

The Hospital works according to the internal organizational rules regarding hospitals and is lead by a board of directors with the following members: 

- the manager of the hospital;

- the medical director;

- the director of finance and accounting;

- the director of nursing; 

The primary task of the Hospital is to provide specialist care (hospital and outpatient care). Therefore, it includes different departments and divisions which focus on the treatment and care of patients suffering from different clinical disorders.