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-as of [3 MARCH 2024]–
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-a hospital is a ‘health care institution’ providing ‘patient treatment’ with specialized ‘medical’ + ‘nursing’ staff + ‘medical equipment’-
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(the best-known type of hospital is the ‘general hospital’, which typically has an ’emergency department’ to treat ‘urgent health problems’ ranging from ‘fire’ + ‘accident’ victims to a ‘heart attack’)
(a ‘district hospital’ typically is the major ‘health care facility’ in its region, with large numbers of beds for ‘intensive care’ + additional beds for patients who need ‘long-term care’)
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(specialized hospitals include…)
*trauma centers*
*rehabilitation hospitals*
*children’s hospitals*
*seniors’ (geriatric) hospitals*
*hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric treatment (see psychiatric hospital) and certain disease categories*
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(‘specialized hospitals’ can help reduce ‘health care costs’ compared to ‘general hospitals’)
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(a ‘teaching hospital’ combines assistance to people with teaching to ‘medical students’ + ‘nurses’)
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(the medical facility smaller than a hospital is generally called a ‘clinic’)
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(hospitals have a range of departments (e.g.: surgery and urgent care) and specialist units such as ‘cardiology’)
(some hospitals have outpatient departments and some have chronic treatment units)
(common support units include a pharmacy, pathology, and radiology)
(hospitals are usually funded by the public sector, by health organisations (for profit or nonprofit), by health insurance companies, or by charities, including direct charitable donations)
(historically, hospitals were often founded and funded by religious orders, or by charitable individuals and leaders)
(in the 2010s, hospitals are largely staffed by professional physicians, surgeons, and nurses, whereas in the past, this work was usually performed by the founding religious orders and members of their order or by volunteers)
(however, there are various ‘catholic religious orders’ (such as the ‘alexians’ + the ‘bon secours sisters’) that still focus on ‘hospital ministry’ in the ‘late 1990s’, as well as several other christian denominations, including the ‘methodists’ + ‘lutherans’, which run hospitals)
(in accordance with the original meaning of the word, hospitals were originally ‘places of hospitality’, and this meaning is still preserved in the names of some ‘institutions’…
…such as the ‘royal hospital chelsea’, established in ‘1681’ as a ‘retirement’ + ‘nursing home’ for ‘veteran soldiers’)
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