Hospital
A hospital is a healthcare facility that provides specialized medical and nursing care and medical supplies to patients. The most well-known form of the hospital is the general hospital, which usually carries an emergency department to handle urgent health issues such as fire and accident victims and medical emergencies. According to the definition, a district hospital is usually the region's primary healthcare facility, with many intensive-care beds and extra beds for patients who need long-term care. Trauma centers, children's hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, and seniors' (geriatric) hospitals for coping with particular medical conditions, such as psychiatric care, are also examples of specialized hospitals and several other disease categories. Unlike general hospitals, specialized hospitals can help save money on health care [Vedantu].
A hospital is an institution that is built, staffed, and equipped for the diagnosis of disease; for the medical and surgical treatment of the sick and the injured, and their housing during this process. The modern hospital also often serves as a center for investigation and teaching. To better serve the community's wide-ranging needs, the modern hospital has often developed outpatient facilities and emergency, psychiatric, and rehabilitation services. In addition, “bedless hospitals” provide strictly ambulatory (outpatient) care and day surgery. Patients arrive at the facility for short appointments. They may also stay for treatment in surgical or medical units for part of a day or for a full day, after which they are discharged for follow-up by a primary care health provider. Hospitals have long existed in most countries. Developing countries, which contain a large proportion of the world’s population, generally do not have enough hospitals, equipment, and trained staff to handle the number of persons needing care. Thus, people in these countries do not always receive the benefits of modern medicine, public health measures, or hospital care, and they generally have lower life expectancies [Britanicca].
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