1.
HOSPITAL

2.
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.

3.
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.

4.
CLASSIFICATION OF HOSPITALS
 They classified according to ,
◦Length of stay of the patient
◦Clinical basis
◦Ownership /control basis
◦Objectives
◦Size
◦Management
◦System of medicine

5.
Hospital
Length of
stay
Short term
Long term
Clinical basis
specialty
General
Specialty

6.
Hospital Based on
ownership
Public hospitals
Voluntary
hospitals
Voluntary
nursing homes
Corporative
hospitals

7.
Hospital Based on
objectives
Teaching cum
research
hospitals
General
hospital
Specialized
hospitals
Isolation
hospitals

8.
Hospital Based on
size
Teaching
hospital
District
hospital
Thaluk
hospital
CHC
PHC

9.
Hospital management
Union government
hospitals
State
government
Autonomous
bodies
Private
hospitals
Voluntary
agencies

10.
Hospital Based on
system
Allopathic
hospitals
Ayurvedic
hospitals
Homeopathic
hospitals
Unani
hospitals
Other
system

11.
OUT PATIENT DEPARTMENT SURGICAL UNIT

12.
EMERGENCY ONCOLOGY

13.
MEDICAL UNIT MATERNITY UNIT

14.
PEDIATRIC UNIT DENTAL DEPARTMENT

15.
OPHTHALMOLOGY ENT

16.
RADIOLOGY AND X-RAY PATHOLOGY

17.
PSYCHIATRY PHARMACY

18.
LAUNDRY DIETARY

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