Hospitals are defined by the WHO as organizations that provide both curative and preventive healthcare services, including outpatient care, to the local population. They also serve as centers for training healthcare workers and conducting biomedical research. Hospitals are organized into hierarchical structures with standardized rules, policies, and divisions of labor between clinical specialties and disciplines. The organizational structure typically includes a governing board, administrative departments, and medical/nursing divisions that work together to care for patients, prevent and treat diseases, rehabilitate patients, provide medical education and conduct research. Hospitals can be classified based on size, ownership, clinical specialties, and whether they provide teaching services.

1. HOSPITAL
(Types, Organization & Functions)
Muzammil Ali Khan

2. Definition of Hospital According To
W.H.O.
“Hospital is an integral part of social and medical
organization, the function of which is to
provide complete health care for the
population, both curative and preventive and
out patient service reach out the family and its
environment. The hospital is also a centre for
training of health workers and bio-social
research.”

3. Organization of Hospital
Hospital word has been derived from Latin word
“Hospes”, which means ‘a host or guest’ or
‘hotel/hostel’. Some also believes that the origin
of the hospital from the word “HOSPITUM”, a rest
house for travellers or night shelter showing
‘hospitality’ to the guests. Hospital is a social
organization and logical combination of the
activities of a number of persons with different
level of knowledge and skills for achieving a
common goal of patient care through a hierarchy
of authority, communication and control.

4. Contd..
Organizing is a process of grouping the activities
in workable units and connected by authority,
communication and control. Organization is
the anatomy and management is the
physiology of the process. It implies
standardization, uniformity and central
authority. It ensures better decision making,
co-ordination, better authority of control and
cost effective due to skilled administrators.

5. Structural components of organization
1. Formalization: Rules, Guidelines, Policies.
2. Centralization: Distribution of power,
Decision Making.
3. Specialization: Division, Medical & Nursing
4. Complexity: Multiple disciplines
5. Configuration: How these different disciplines
work together.

6. Organizational structure of hospital
(Board of visitors means the governing body of any public institution.)

7. Functions of Hospital
• Care of the sick and injured.
• Prevention of disease and promotion of health.
• Diagnosis and treatment of disease.
• Rehabilitation and vocational training (carrier in
technical education):It is the combined and co-ordinated use of
medical, social, educational and vocational measures for training and
retraining the individual to the highest possible level of functional ability.
• Medical education.
• Research.

8. Classification of Hospital
According to size and bed capacity:
• Small Hospital (Bed capacity of 100 or less
than 100 beds).
• Medium Hospital (Bed capacity between 100
to 300 beds).
• Large Hospital (Bed capacity between 300 to
1000 beds).

9. Contd..
According to ownership and control:
• Public Hospital (State Govt. Or Central Govt.)
• Voluntary Hospital (Charitable)
• Private Hospital
• Corporate Hospital

10. Contd.
According to clinical specialities:
• T.B. Hospital
• Cancer Hospital etc.
According to the teaching and non-teaching
hospital.

11. W.H.O Classification of Hospitals
• Regional Hospital: It provides a complex range of
treatment and highly specialized services. It
serves as a large area than a local hospital. For
example : Government Medical College Hospital.
• Intermediate/DistrictHospital: A district hospital
typically is the major health care facility in the
locality. Specialty services in the major disciplines
(e.g. Medicine, Surgery, Gynae)
• Rural Hospital: A remote hospital with small
number of beds and limited service capacity. It
should have 20-100 beds.

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