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Also known as medical centre, hospital facility, medical facility

thumb|The exterior of Bellvitge University Hospital in [[L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain, with entrance and parking area for ambulances.|upright=1.12]]

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A hospital is a subject associated with the Unicode character 🏥. It is categorized under the Commons gallery and category titled "Hospitals". The term is used in queries within PubMed, which contains 8,489,256 entries related to the word.

The concept is referenced by 9,696 other encyclopedia articles. It corresponds to equivalent classes in DBpedia, Schema.org, and other ontologies. In OpenStreetMap, it is tagged as amenity=hospital or healthcare=hospital. It also has a Merchant Category Code of 8062 and an NCI Thesaurus ID of C16696.

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Research

8,489,256 papers

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of
building
Image
Hospital-de-Bellvitge.jpg
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topic's main category
Category:Hospitals
Commons gallery
Hospitals
Unicode character
🏥
Commons category
Hospitals
topic has template
Template:Infobox hospital
different from
Hospital
model item
dispensary
OpenStreetMap tag
healthcare=hospital
Merchant Category Code
8062
NCI Thesaurus ID
C16696
Wikidata usage instructions
för den fysiska byggnaden, använd (Q39364723), för organisationer, använd hälsoorganisation (Q4287745)
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
partially coincident with
hospital
history of topic
history of hospitals
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Encyclopedic overview

24 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • {{anchor|Types}}Types
  • General and acute care{{anchor|General hospital|General}}
  • District
  • Specialized
  • Teaching
  • Clinics
  • Departments or wards
  • Remote monitoring
  • History
  • Early examples
  • Middle Ages
  • Early modern and Enlightenment Europe
  • 19th century
  • 20th century and beyond
  • Funding
  • Quality and safety
  • Architecture
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • History of hospitals
  • External links

thumb|The exterior of Bellvitge University Hospital in [[L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain, with entrance and parking area for ambulances.|upright=1.12]]

A hospital is a healthcare institution providing patient treatment with specialized medical 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hospital” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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