Hospital A hospital Is an organization utilizing combinations Of specialized scientific equipment, and functions through qualified ...
Hospital
A hospital Is an organization utilizing combinations Of specialized scientific equipment, and functions through qualified and trained personnel for restoration and maintenance of good health.
The hospital is also serves as medium through which the medical professional staff-pools their efforts for the betterment of public health. The public in turn comprises of particular population called as Patient so the patient is a focal point about which all the activities of a hospital revolve.
Patient
A volunteer or individual seeking health facilty to correct or restore his health, reverse or cure disease and managment of particular disease is called paient
- The patient may be inpatient (closed within the hospital occupies the bed for a certain period) or
- Outpatient (using hospital facilities for not taking his bed).
Hospitals are gaining greater responsibility for programs of preventive medicine to improve public health in general.
Classification of Hospitals
Hospitals may be classified in number of ways, However, it's worthy to note that a single institution may fall into more than one grouping.
The following is a general classification of hospitals.
The following is a general classification of hospitals.
- Based on services
- Based on ownership and control
1. Based on services
1. General hospitals
2. Speciality
2.1 Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Psychiatric and nervous diseases
- Tuberculosis
- Communicable disease
- Pediatrics
2.2 Surgery
- Orthopedic
- Gynecologic
- Otolaryngologic
- Cardiologic
2.3 Maternity
2. Based on ownership and control
2.1 Governmental
- Armed forces (Naval, Combined Military Hospitals etc)
- Federal Governmental Hospitals
- Provincial Hospitals (Head Quarter Hospitals, Social Security Hospitals. Civil Dispensary. Rural dispensary, Basic health units etc.)
- Teaching hospitals
2.2 Non-governmental
2.3 Private for profit
2.4 Private charity
