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2. Hospital - Wikipedia

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   A hospital is a healthcare institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. [1]

3. History of hospitals - Wikipedia

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   The voluntary hospital movement began in the early 18th century, with hospitals being founded in London by the 1710s and 20s, including Westminster Hospital (1719) promoted by the private bank C. Hoare & Co and Guy's Hospital (1724) funded from the bequest of the wealthy merchant, Thomas Guy. Other hospitals sprang up in London and other ...

4. Catholic Church and health care - Wikipedia

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   It is believed that the first church hospitals were constructed in the East, and only later in the Latin West. An early hospital may have been built at Constantinople during the age of Constantine by St. Zoticus. St. Basil built a famous hospital at Cæsarea in Cappadocia, later called Basileias, which "had the

5. Health facility - Wikipedia

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   Some hospitals primarily admit patients with a specific disease or affliction, or are reserved for the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting a specific age group. Others have a mandate that expands beyond offering dominantly curative and rehabilitative care services to include promotional, preventive and educational roles as part of a ...

6. Public hospital - Wikipedia

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   The safety-net role of public hospitals has evolved since the 1700s when the first U.S. public hospital sheltered and provided medical healthcare to the poor. [8] Until the late 20th century, public hospitals represented the "poor house" that undertook social welfare roles.

7. Health care - Wikipedia

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   National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, United Kingdom is a specialist neurological hospital. Tertiary care is specialized consultative health care, usually for inpatients and on referral from a primary or secondary health professional, in a facility that has personnel and facilities for advanced medical investigation and ...

8. Health system - Wikipedia

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   Physicians and hospital beds per 1000 inhabitants vs Health Care Spending in 2008 for OECD Countries. The data source is OECD.org - OECD. [47] [48] Since 2008, the US experienced big deviations from 16% GDP. In 2010, the year the Affordable Care Act was enacted, health care spending accounted for approximately 17.2% of the U.S. GDP. By 2019 ...

9. Health administration - Wikipedia

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   Iconographic Collections. Keywords: E. Walker; Florence Nightingale; W.J. Simpson. Health administration, healthcare administration, healthcare management or hospital management is the field relating to leadership, management, and administration of public health systems, health care systems, hospitals, and hospital networks in all the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors.