Hospitals are institutions designed to care for the sick, injured, and well. A hospital provides complete health care including curative and preventive services. It serves as a center for training health workers and conducting biomedical research. Hospitals can be classified based on length of stay, clinical focus, ownership, objectives, size, management, and medical system. They perform key functions like patient care, diagnosis and treatment, outpatient services, medical education, research, and disease prevention and health promotion.

1. HOSPITAL

3. Hospitals are institutions ,which are mainly designed
for care for the sick ,injured and well.
DEFINITION:-
Hospital is an integral part of a social and medical
organization ,the functions of which is to provide for the
population complete health care both curative and
preventive , and whose outpatients services reach out to the
family and its home environment . The hospital is also a
centre for the training of health worker and for bio social
researches.

5. FUNCTIONS OF THE HOSPITAL
 Patient care
 Diagnosis and treatment of disease
 Out patient services
 Medical education and training
 Medical and nursing research
 Prevention of disease and
promotion of health.

7. CLASSIFICATION OF HOSPITALS
 They classified according to ,
◦Length of stay of the patient
◦Clinical basis
◦Ownership /control basis
◦Objectives
◦Size
◦Management
◦System of medicine

8. Hospital
Length of
stay
Short term
Long term
Clinical basis
specialty
General
Specialty

9. Hospital Based on
ownership
Public hospitals
Voluntary
hospitals
Voluntary
nursing homes
Corporative
hospitals

10. Hospital Based on
objectives
Teaching cum
research
hospitals
General
hospital
Specialized
hospitals
Isolation
hospitals

11. Hospital Based on
size
Teaching
hospital
District
hospital
Thaluk
hospital
CHC
PHC

12. Hospital management
Union government
hospitals
State
government
Autonomous
bodies
Private
hospitals
Voluntary
agencies

13. Hospital Based on
system
Allopathic
hospitals
Ayurvedic
hospitals
Homeopathic
hospitals
Unani
hospitals
Other
system

15. OUT PATIENT DEPARTMENT SURGICAL UNIT

16. EMERGENCY ONCOLOGY

17. MEDICAL UNIT MATERNITY UNIT

18. PEDIATRIC UNIT DENTAL DEPARTMENT

19. OPHTHALMOLOGY ENT

20. RADIOLOGY AND X-RAY PATHOLOGY

21. PSYCHIATRY PHARMACY

22. LAUNDRY DIETARY

23. CSSD NUSRSING