1. Maulana Azad university jodhpur
Rajasthan
subject- pharmacy practice(BP703T)
Prepared By :-Ankit Ramawat
2. A. Hospital and its organization
1. Definition of hospital
2. classification of hospitals
3. organization structure of hospital
4. medical staff involved and their function
3. 1. Definition of Hospital
• ‘A hospital is a residential establishment which
provides short-term and long-term medical care
consisting of observational, diagnostic, treatment,
therapeutic and rehabilitative services for persons
suffering or suspected to be suffering from a disease
or injury and for parturient. It may or may not also
provide services for ambulatory patients on an out-
patient basis’.
• the hospital is also a centre for the training of health
workers and for biosocial research’.
4. 2. Classification of Hospitals
a) On the clinical basis b) on the ownership basis
i. ENT hospital i. Government hospital
ii. Cardiac hospital ii. Private hospital
iii. TB hospital iii. Military hospital
iv. Cancer hospital iv. Air force hospital
v. Orthopedic hospital v. navy hospital
c) On the basis of size d) on expensive basis
i. very small hospital - less than 100 bed i. budget hospital
ii. Small hospital - 100 to 500 beds ii. Elite hospital – apollo
iii. medium hospital - 500 to 1000 beds forteis etc.
iv. large hospital - more than 1000 beds