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Hospital

A hospital is a centre for professional health care provided by physicians
and nurses.

There are several kinds of hospitals; the best-known is the general
hospital, which is set up to deal with many kinds of disease and injury, and
typically has an emergency ward to deal with immediate threats to health and
the capacity to dispatch emergency medical services. A general hospital is
typically the major health care facility in its region, with large numbers
of beds for intensive care and long-term care, facilities for surgery and
childbirth, bioassay laboratories, and so forth. Larger cities may have many
different hospitals of varying sizes and facilities.

Kinds of specialized hospitals include trauma centers, children's hospitals,
seniors' hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs
such as psychiatric problems, pulmonary diseases, and so forth.

A hospital may be a single building or a campus. Some hospitals are
affiliated with universities for medical research and the training of
medical personnel.

The name comes from the same root as hotel and hospitality. Hospitals
originated as religious communities, with care provided by monks and nuns
(an old French term for hospital is h™tel-Dieu, "hostel of God.") Still
today, individual hospitals often have religious affiliations. Though this
usually relates just to historical ties and possibly to a particular
community served by the hospital, some hospitals do not offer particular
medical procedures (such as abortion) on the basis of their religious affiliation.

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