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hospital
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈhɒs.pɪ.təl/us
/ˈhɑː.spɪ.t̬əl/
a place where people who are ill or injured are treated and taken care of by doctors ...
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(Definition ofhospitalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Some not-for-profit and for-profit hospitals formed joint ventures with group practices and individual physicians to operate facilities that provided ancillary services.
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The combination of few in-hospital beds and relatively higher production indicates that the private for-profit hospitals today concentrate on day surgery and other outpatient treatment.
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Moreover, in our adjusted study the rate of revascularization procedures was significantly higher for patients admitted to private for-profit hospitals, without a clear difference of case mix as explanation.
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Therefore, hospital cost control has been decentralized, with allocation of funds for each sector (public hospitals, for-profit hospitals) by the 22 new publicly owned regional agencies.
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Non-profit hospitals are distinct from government owned public hospitals and privately owned for-profit hospitals.
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Some for-profit hospitals provided as much charity care as some non-profit hospitals.
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There are also privately owned for-profit hospitals as well as government hospitals in some locations, mainly owned by county and city governments.
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For-profit hospitals were quicker to respond to changes in profitability of medical services than the other two types of hospitals.
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The rest included government hospitals (20 percent) and for-profit hospitals (18 percent).
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In the 1990s, high-tech hospitals saw more generous reimbursements and were more likely to survive, whereas for-profit hospitals were more likely to exit the market.
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There are public hospitals, non-profit independent hospitals (which are linked to the public system), as well as private for-profit hospitals.
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