Definitions for hospitals
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1. hospitals

   A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emergency department to treat urgent health problems ranging from fire and accident victims to a sudden illness. A district hospital typically is the major health care facility in its region, with many beds for intensive care and additional beds for patients who need long-term care. Specialized hospitals include trauma centers, rehabilitation hospitals, children's hospitals, seniors' (geriatric) hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric treatment (see psychiatric hospital) and certain disease categories. Specialized hospitals can help reduce health care costs compared to general hospitals. Hospitals are classified as general, specialty, or government depending on the sources of income received. A teaching hospital combines assistance to people with teaching to health science students and auxiliary healthcare students. A health science 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 have outpatient departments and some have chronic treatment units. Common support units include a pharmacy, pathology, and radiology. Hospitals are typically funded by public funding, health organisations (for-profit or nonprofit), health insurance companies, or charities, including direct charitable donations. Historically, hospitals were often founded and funded by religious orders, or by charitable individuals and leaders.Currently, hospitals are largely staffed by professional physicians, surgeons, nurses, and allied health practitioners, whereas in the past, this work was usually performed by the members of founding religious orders or by volunteers. However, there are various Catholic religious orders, such as the Alexians and the Bon Secours Sisters that still focus on hospital ministry in the late 1990s, as well as several other Christian denominations, including the Methodists and Lutherans, which run hospitals. In accordance with the original meaning of the word, hospitals were original "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 and nursing home for veteran soldiers.

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1. Hospitals

   Institutions with an organized medical staff which provide medical care to patients.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'hospitals' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3427

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'hospitals' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3027

How to pronounce hospitals?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

How to say hospitals in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hospitals in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hospitals in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of hospitals in a Sentence

1. Gay Courter:

   It's better for us to travel while healthy and also if we get sick to be treated in American hospitals.

2. Bill Barnes:

   We had to bring in all of our stakeholders, including the Medical Examiner's Office, the hospitals where the patients are going to be discharged from, and the funeral home directors to identify a solution to the problem.

3. Daniel Rauch:

   People are going to have to decide it’s worth investing in kids, we’re going to have to pay so that hospitals don’t lose money on it and we’re going to have to pay to have staff.

4. Eric Adams:

   Facts are important because facts can spread fear, facts can also allow people to know that this is not at the place where we have morgues outside of hospitals, where we're seeing people dying at alarming rates. We are not where we were in the beginning.

5. Terry McAuliffe:

   We’ve just 1,142 children in serious, in hospitals, in ICU beds.

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