Definitions for cottage hospital
cot·tage hos·pi·tal

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1. cottage hospitalnoun

   A small rural hospital

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1. Cottage hospital

   A cottage hospital is a semi-obsolete type of small hospital, most commonly found in the United Kingdom. The original concept was a small rural building having several beds. The advantages of such a hospital in villages were the provision of care which avoided long journeys to county or voluntary hospitals, facilities to deal more immediately with emergencies, and familiarity the local physician might have with their patients that may affect their treatment. This local knowledge of the patient would probably have been lost had they been referred to their nearest county hospital, as was typical for poorer patients. Some of these buildings continued to be known as cottage hospitals until recent times. In particular, several are still recognisable in Scotland within the infrastructure of NHS Grampian, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries & Galloway, and in Norfolk and Suffolk in England, an example being the Aldeburgh Cottage Hospital, which is still working as a traditional cottage hospital. The term community hospital is now applied to most of these buildings where they are used to deliver healthcare, reflecting the wider range of services that are provided in more modern times.

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1. Cottage hospital

   The original concept of a cottage hospital was a small rural building having several beds. Advantages of such a hospital in villages was the provision of care which avoided long journeys to county or voluntary hospitals, facilities to deal more immediately with emergencies and familiarity the local physician might have with their patient that may affect their treatment. This local knowledge of the patient would probably have been lost, had they been referred to their nearest county hospital, as was typical for poorer patients. Some cottage hospitals still exist today. In particular, several can be found within NHS Grampian, a Scottish region of the National Health Service. More remain in operation in Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries & Galloway in Scotland and Norfolk. Some of these are today termed Community Hospital but were founded as Cottage Hospitals and locally are called such.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of cottage hospital in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of cottage hospital in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of cottage hospital in a Sentence

1. Allan Glaser:

   We were walking home and he collapsed in my arms in our front yard, he said he couldn't breathe, so I called 911, and we went to Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara.

References

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3. ^ Wikidata
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