Show pageBacklinksCite current pageExport to PDFBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ====== Hospital ====== A hospital is a health [[care]] [[institution]] providing patient treatment with specialized staff and equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which has an emergency department. A district hospital typically is the major healthcare facility in its region, with large numbers of beds for intensive care and long-term care. Specialised hospitals include trauma centres, rehabilitation hospitals, children's hospitals, seniors' (geriatric) hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric problems (see psychiatric hospital), certain disease categories. Specialised hospitals can help reduce health care costs compared to general hospitals. A teaching hospital combines assistance to people with teaching to medical students and nurses. The medical facility smaller than a hospital is generally called a clinic. Hospitals have a range of departments (e.g., surgery, and urgent care) and specialist units such as cardiology. Some hospitals will have outpatient departments and some will have chronic treatment units. Common support units include a pharmacy, pathology, and radiology. ===== Types ===== [[Private hospital]]. [[Teaching hospital]]. [[Nonteaching hospital]]. [[Neurosurgery hospitals]] [[Palliative care center]] [[Safety Net Hospital]]. [[Tertiary referral hospital]] ---- Hospital-acquired [[infection]] (HAI) — also known as [[nosocomial infection]] — is an infection whose development is favored by a [[hospital]] environment, such as one acquired by a patient during a hospital visit or one developing among hospital staff. ===== Hospital contamination ===== [[Hospital contamination]] hospital.txt Last modified: 2024/02/06 23:01by 127.0.0.1